"Many of the top players on NHL Central Scouting's final list of North American and international prospects eligible for the 2014 NHL Draft will be front and center when the NHL Scouting Combine takes center stage later this month in Toronto."
Good news for Reid Duke. He has been invited to the NHL Scouting Combine. Despite being 137th on NHL Central Scouting's list, not including Euros and goalies, which would bump Duke down to maybe about 170th overall, he is one of 119 players invited. More than a few NHL teams must have an interest in him to get him picked despite his really low ranking.
He was very fortunate that the rules to pick the players changed this year.
"It's a change from past practice of invites being solely based on Central Scouting's final rankings," Marr said. For the 2014 Combine, a two-stage process was adopted. In the initial stage, the top 75 players on Central Scouting's Players to Watch List were invited [at an earlier date] and the final stage involved the NHL clubs voting in the remaining 45 players. The number of invites increased this year."
That rule change to allow the NHL teams to invite Duke is a Godsend for him!
http://www.whl.ca/uploads/assets/WHL...ne_Invites.pdf
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