Quoting: squashmaple
Not to pick nits, but Sillinger was not a college player. He was drafted out of the USHL, where he played because Covid basically canceled the WHL season. Otherwise he would've been in Medicine Hat.
Also, I don't know if you can point to a top ten and say categorically college > juniors. When looking at them like macro level, all of college vs all of the OHL, it's weighted in favor of the OHL if only because of volume of players between three full leagues. College only has, what, 25 programs with pro-quality players. Also, four of the top ten players last year were all from one single college program, which if anything undermines your argument. Sure, UMich had a better draft than most OHL teams, but I don't think you can argue that college as a whole did.
Quoting: OldNYIfan
I wasn't making that argument, the Razmanian Mor-, er, Devil was -- go back and read the comment before mine. But he's all over the place. Logic isn't his forte.
Quoting: NHLfan10506
These numbers are off. CHL makes up about 1/3 of draft. And in recent years, top-10 players via USHL/NCAA or European routes have had more success than CHLers, which have experienced a lull recently. Especially with top-10 forwards.
Quoting: OldNYIfan
No fair citing actual facts to refute wildly illogical flights of . . . whatever.
Look, at the end of the day I could care less about the numbers. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. So what, I don't care. I'm not going to sit here and cry, or try to argue. It's whatever.
Quoting: squashmaple
Also, I don't know if you can point to a top ten and say categorically college > juniors. When looking at them like macro level, all of college vs all of the OHL, it's weighted in favor of the OHL if only because of volume of players between three full leagues. College only has, what, 25 programs with pro-quality players. Also, four of the top ten players last year were all from one single college program, which if anything undermines your argument. Sure, UMich had a better draft than most OHL teams, but I don't think you can argue that college as a whole did.
At the end of the day, ^THIS POST^, is what I was trying to point out.
The idea that college players are more valuable than those coming out of the CHL, because they're not.