Judd has drafted one no-doubt career NHLer with the Wild so far. That number is going up, but you can’t say for sure if these picks hit or not until 5-10 years after the draft.
What is your definition of “Hit”?
Modern day NHL salary cap and longer term contracts complicate things by keeping some players in the league and others out of it longer just due to a numbers game… I’d say any player drafted that plays NHL games should be considered a draft pick success, obviously 1st & 2nd rounders should have a much higher % of that pool than other rounds…There’s also the large group of existing unsigned/traded NHLers that get bounced around organizations every season that compete with those young drafted players for roster spots…
Rossi, Khusnutdinov, Hunt, Ohgren and Wallstedt should all be considered Judd success stories sofar imo, they are either current NHLers or AHLers waiting their turn due to veteran contracts ahead of them that can’t be moved due to waivers risk or contract clauses…The issue is they are all 1st or 2nd rounders (besides 3rd rounder Hunt) and the next wave of prospects that look like potential NHLers are also all 1st & 2nd rounders (with the exception of Bankier who was a 3rd) so it doesn’t appear we’re finding those diamonds in the rough…maybe David Spacek (5th rounder) is the closest prospect we have to that?
This gets back to my old draft argument of quality over quantity, trade your 3-7 round draft picks whenever you can if you’re getting a known player in return…