> Rather than looking at the draft, let's look at actual performance.
> According to the NHL website, the top rookie scorers are:
>
>         1. Muckalt
>         2.  Drury
>         3.  Morrison
>         4.  Hejduk
>         5.  Parrish
>         6.  Sharifijanov
>         7.  Kaberle
>         8.  Hrdina
>         9.  Watt
>         10. Maneluk
>
> Mostly US Collegians and Europeans.
 
As an addendum to this ...
 
In the recent AHL All-Star Game:
9 of 22 Canadian players &
9 of 12 US-born players from the Planet/USA team
  played US College hockey
 
Planet USA: Rich Brennan, Jim Carey, Jon Coleman, Jim Dowd, Chris Ferraro,
Ken Gernander, Chris O'Sullivan, Jean-Marc Pelletier, Landon Wilson
 
Canada: Dan Boyle, Ray Giroux, Steve Guolla, John Madden, Jim Montgomery,
Randy Robitaille, Andre Savage, Martin St. Louis, Peter White
 
That's a pretty darn good ratio, really.
 
AW
 
 
  Now it's fair to note that the US
> Collegians are "old rookies" but at least with the case of Muckalt, Drury,
> and Morrison, they have been successful in the NHL without
> needing the "tons
> of ice time" that they might have gotten in major juniors or in the minor
> leagues.
>
> Clay
>
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