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Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images/NHLIThe NHL Entry Draft is generally considered a crapshoot.

It’s generally accepted knowledge that your performance at the Draft is decided on how good your scouts are on making solid bets at how a player who has largely dominated a league of teenagers will translate into an NHL that gets faster, stronger, and scarier at every turn.

Most of the time if you work for a bad enough team, there’s a good chance you could end up with a pick high enough to see the cream of the crop show up at your pick. Most years, it’s about two or three players, or sometimes it’s only one, which complicates the arithmetic of how bad you actually have to be to get that one…