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Winnipeg Jets Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Hillier reflects on the 2025 NHL Draft

Video Description:
Winnipeg Jets Director of Amateur Scouting Mark Hillier discusses the team’s picks following the 2025 NHL Draft in Los Angeles.

Topics:
1 – Assessing Draft Weekend/Sascha Boumedienne
2 – The decentralized Draft (1:00)
3 – Selecting Manitoban Owen Martin in 3rd round (1:31)
4 – Viktor Klingsell as a steal (2:20)
5 – Edison Engle path to OHL then NCAA (3:32)
6 – Getting good value from late picks (4:35)
7 – What do they like about Jacob Cloutier (5:30)
8 – Sascha Boumedienne against his peer group (6:02)
9 – Wide variation of drafting compared to their list? (6:55)
10 – Help of their analytics modelling (7:30)
11 – Was Sascha Boumedienne an easy selection? (8:33)

Audio:

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