We received the following advice from another parent in our area that has a son that I believe signed in the '00 draft. Would be curious to see if this is accurate based on other's experiece.
His recommendation was to focus more on who's actually seeing the games. Is it local scouts, area scouts, cross-checkers, directors of scouting or other high-level organization staff? He indicated that if you see an increased number of scouts and particularly more of the cross-checkers and/or scouting directors that you're moving up on someone's radar.
Hope to see this spring if this holds true in our case. Just thought I'd throw this out for add'l comments. Really enjoy the site by the way.