Boy, what a year, hey?
To say that the 2020-21 hockey season was a weird one for scouts would be quite an understatement. From the drastic reduction of available in-person scouting and interviews, to the necessary pivots to video, to many top prospects playing in new countries (or not at all), scouts all around the world — both NHL-affiliated and independent — had quite a task on their hands preparing for the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.
But scouting is a difficult art even at the best of times, and all one of its practitioners can really do is dig in and keep working.