The Arizona Coyotes have not been great at drafting and developing talent. Even a cursory look at the Coyotes' draft history shows that there are a lot of misses in the early rounds, much less the later rounds. As the Tampa Bay Lightning showed, to be successful you not only need your first-round picks to work out, you need to get players in later rounds like the seventh-round selection Ondu0159ej Palát.
Arizona has been getting better at drafting and development. Conor Garland going for fifth-round selection to the team's leading goal scorer is probably the best indicator of this, but Jan Jeník (3rd round), Matias Maccelli (4th round), and Ivan Prosvetov (4th round) are also progressing well.