Columbus Blue Jackets: How Has Jarmo Done at the NHL Draft?

With the NHL Draft less than two weeks away, I decided that now would be a good time to look at how Blue Jacket GM Jarmo Kekalainen has fared in nine years of drafting with this organization. A well-noted talent evaluator, Jarmo has assembled a solid scouting staff here, one that I’m pretty quick to defend when they take heat.

But for the purpose of the article, we’ll break it down by the numbers. I broke this up into two different categories of evaluation; on the first hand, we have the 2013 through 2017 drafts broken down. Then, we’ll take a quick look at the 2018-22 drafts separately.

The reason for this? Once I started diving into the draft around 2018, it becomes difficult to classify…