Monday, October 30, 2006

Discrediting the IIHF Study Part III

Looking at the various European leagues compared the CHL, I found some interesting figures:

Draftees between 1989-2003 that have played a minimum of 1 NHL Game:

Under 100 Career NHL Games:
Slovakia - 55.6%
Finland - 54.5%
OHL - 53.7%
QMJHL - 53.7%
WHL - 49.7%
Czech - 47.7%
Russia - 46.3%
Sweden - 44.1%

Over 400 Career NHL Games:
Russia - 28.4%
Sweden - 25.8%
Czech - 25.7%
WHL - 20.7%
OHL - 20.1%
QMJHL - 15.4%
Slovakia - 14.8%
Finland - 14.3%

I still have a lot more research and analysis I would like to do but at first glance it seems that their major argument that "a healthy ratio between North Americans and Europeans in NHL is 80/20 (80 percent North Americans/20 percent Europeans, as opposed to the current 70/30)" is off-base. My numbers seem to show that the percentage of Europeans who are drafted (specifically from the Russian, Swedish and Czech leagues) that go on to successful careers is significantly higher than the percentage of players drafted from the CHL.

To be continued...

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