Two of the more common questions I’ve been asked in the last two weeks, as The Athletic has launched its year-end 2018 NHL draft coverage, have been ones of hindsight.



Naturally, with the release of my final top-100 ranking, readers are curious as to how my previous rankings have fared. The other, is one I get all year long when commenting on drafted prospects: “Where would Player X fall in a re-draft?”



And so I decided I’d try to tick both of those boxes and settled on the 2015 class as a good place to start. Given that three years have now passed, the 2015 draft is the most recent class that I’m able to adequately gauge in retrospect. The goal, here, would be to make this a regular feature where, every May, I’ll look back on the first round of the draft class of three years earlier (Ie. Next year I would re-draft 2016 and evaluate my own ranking).



This new ranking, like my draft ranking, does not take into...