Every pick a CHL team makes is a bet on the future. This traces every one of those bets to its first verdict — the NHL Draft — for all three leagues, all 20 rounds, since 2000: who got picked, how high, how long the wait, what the career became. The first round is the proof point; the later rounds are where the surprises live. Official headshots, team logos and real stats throughout.
Real outcomes, 2000–2024 · NHL-draft rates settle for CHL classes ≤ 2022; career rates need mature classes ≤ 2017.
The whole picture
The translation, at a glance…
Quick answers
Start with the questions hockey readers actually ask: what happened to one CHL class, what did one NHL Draft pull from the CHL, and which timeline is being counted.
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Cohort summaryTranslator
Use for rates: one CHL league, year range, round range, pick depth, or one NHL Draft class.
Row proofExplorer
Use for exact players: search, filter, sort columns, inspect faces/logos, and export the current slice.
The class translator
For cohort summaries: choose the CHL league, class year, rounds and pick depth, then read the NHL-Draft result for that group. Opens on the 2024 OHL first round; slide it anywhere.
01 · the article view, for any cohort
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D+2 is the standard NHL Draft window for most CHL picks. Any-lag also counts later NHL selections. Recent CHL classes are translation studies, not finished career studies.
Class card
The Translation
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What they became
Getting drafted isn't a career. Of mature CHL first rounds (classes ≤2017), how many cleared each bar — NHL-drafted → played a game → 100+ GP NHLer → 400+ GP star.
02 · the funnel
How far down does it translate?
The first round is a different planet. NHL-draft rate (settled classes ≤2022) and NHL-play rate (mature ≤2017) for every CHL round — bars scaled to round one. The curve falls off a cliff after the first round, then flattens into a long, thin tail.
03 · the round-decay curve
NHL-drafted %played NHL %bars relative to round one · round size at right
Does pedigree translate?
Every NHL-drafted CHL first-rounder: where they went in their league draft (across) vs where they went in the NHL Draft (down). If pedigree carried, dots would hug the top-left.
04 · the correlation
OHLWHLQMJHLdot size = NHL games played
The best at every slot
Every CHL draft slot that produced an NHL scorer — the biggest career it has ever made, with that slot's play-rate and average career points. Pick a round and league, or sort by the biggest career.
04 · the ceiling per pick
What translates
The patterns under the noise: which league converts best, how fast pedigree decays down the round, and how long the wait to the NHL Draft tends to be.
Pedigree decays. CHL pick band vs how often it reaches the NHL Draft, and the NHL.
NHL-draftedplayed NHL
The wait — draft lag (D+N)
CHL years to the NHL Draft. CHL first-rounders are 15–16; most are NHL-drafted two years later, at 17–18.
Forwards, defence & goalies
Across the CHL first round — all three leagues (OHL · WHL · QMJHL), 2000–2024 — who gets NHL-drafted, who actually plays, the median wait and the scoring expectation. Draft rate counts settled classes ≤2022; play rate & points use mature classes ≤2017.
06 · position translation · 1st round, all CHL
The eras
Each league's translation rate across five-year CHL classes — the long arc of who the NHL Draft rewards. Toggle the metric; hover a point for its rate. The most recent bucket's play-rate is intentionally light — those careers aren't written yet.
07 · era trends · first round
Draft factories
Which CHL franchises turn draft picks of any round into NHL careers. Ranked by NHLers produced from their own draftees (mature classes, ≥20 picks) — the bar shows each club's play-rate.
10 · the producing clubs
Where they land
Which NHL clubs draft CHL players most — across all rounds — count taken, how many played, and the best alum. Top 16.
11 · NHL destinations
The careers
The biggest NHL careers to come out of any CHL draft round since 2000 — two of the top four (Patrick Kane, Patrice Bergeron) weren't first-rounders at all — and the late-round picks the CHL draft badly under-rated.
04 · the careers
The steals — CHL round 4 or later, big NHL careers
The other side — top CHL first-round picks the NHL never drafted
Player & CSV explorer
For row proof and export: all 18,804 CHL draft picks, every round. Search a player, filter a custom slice, pick an NHL draft year, sort any column, export the view, or click a row for the full path.
02 · the full record
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Claim builder
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The guardrails
How every number is verified
Every public number runs on the same matched, de-duplicated set, cross-checked against the official NHL draft board — career leaderboards collapse to unique NHL players, and where the source attached the wrong career record to a real draftee (a mismatched birthdate), the player is re-resolved to the actual pick at that draft slot and given the right career — not dropped.
Match confidence is surfaced on every drafted player:
exact-name draft matchbirthdate-verified aliasverified name variantfallback (flagged, lower confidence)
