This just tells me, a team at pick #8 has pretty much the same chance of a “hit” of getting a good NHLer who has a long productive career, as a “miss” who has a poor or short NHL career. Obviously the most recent 3-4 years don’t carry much weight, yet.
8th overall picks ...
2000 Nikita Alexeev
2001 Pascal Leclaire
2002 Pierre-Marc Bouchard
2003 Braydon Coburn
2004 Alexandre Picard
2005 Devin Setoguchi
2006 Peter Mueller
2007 Zach Hamill
2008 Mikkel Bødker
2009 Scott Glennie
2010 Alexander Burmistrov
2011 Sean Couturier
2012 Derrick Pouliot
2013 Rasmus Ristolainen
2014 William Nylander
2015 Zach Werenski
2016 Alexander Nylander
2017 Casey Mittelstadt
2018 Adam Boqvist
2019 Philip Broberg
a lot of teams with a lot of misses....