How well do NHL prospect rankings lists predict the future?

There’s a funny feeling you get when you watch an NHL draft. After all, you’re just watching executives in suits read names off of lists. To an outsider, this experience must be very strange.
For fans that agonizingly watched their hockey team rack up losses over the course of a season, they might wonder if there was any payoff for their team’s woes. Leading up to the draft, there’s intrigue, anticipation, and nervousness.
And yet after the day is done and the selections are made, those feelings continue. The relief has not come yet.
Fans will read content from scouting professionals about their team’s successes or failures from draft night.  Content creators make lists and compile scou...