Happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans reading this. While my counterpart, Brendan Ross, is grading each team's draft, I am going to provide some analysis on some top prospects and how where they landed affects their fantasy value.   ************************************************************************************************   Before I delve into that, I want to make some comments [...]

    Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013     Before touching on how teams did at the 2013 NHL Draft, here is an (obviously, incomplete) list of notable players that were passed over at the draft (italicized the really surprising ones for me):   QMJHL: Kurt Etchegary, Matt Murphy (D), Peter Trainor (OA), Jean-Sebastien Dea (OA), [...]

  Monday, July 1st, 2013     HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love hockey and …….beer!   The 2013 NHL Entry Draft is in the books and what a day! A looooong day! There were certainly some surprises both on the draft floor with trades and on the draft stage with selections.   I was shocked [...]