Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff asked HockeyProspecting.com‘s Byron Bader about the Red Wings’ prospect pool and 2022 draft picks, and Duff received mixed answers regarding the former and the latter:
“Their big strength is just the depth of the system,” said NHL Draft consultant Bader, founder of HockeyProspecting.com. “They have a ton of players in the system that have sort of NHLer potential, you could call it. And some star potential as well.”
Bader isn’t as certain about the depth of prospects who were Detroit’s selections in the 2022 NHL entry draft.
“In terms of their picks, their first three picks were okay, pretty decent value,” Bader assesses. “Then after that, it seemed like they got just a lot of low probability guys.
“Even a guy like (Marco) Kasper, who they took eighth overall. There were a lot of players at that point that show a lot better in my analytical models. When they take Kasper, there was so many players still there. There was (Matthew) Savoie, (Denton) Mateychuk, (Danila) Yurov, all these guys with super high NHLer probability and also star potential that were sitting there.”
Kasper will be a stud. If the analytical models worked predicting the draft would be easy.