Hi and welcome to the December edition of the Liiga report. I’ll be taking a closer look into players I have been watching closely for the past four weeks. With World Juniors starting in under a week, I’ll discuss some of the players who made Team Finland but also share a couple of notes [...]
As we prepare for the World Junior Championships, I figured this would be a nice time to update the rankings. Normally, I do this post-tournament (and I’ll probably do that as well), but since some of you may want to follow some draft-eligible players over the Holiday break, this should act as a nice [...]
Yay Thursday ramblings time! I will discuss Carter Hart's start, Team Canada, Team Russia, Svech and Dahlin. Start a ramblin! *********************** Hart was called up for the Flyers after being … fine in his first 17 AHL games. In his debut he was …fine as well winning 3-2 with a 0.909 save [...]
Victor Söderstrom, Bringing his Smooth Game to Brynäs Things That Were Henrik Tjornqvist, RW/Timrå (Undrafted) A quick thought on winger Henrik Tjornqvist. At 22 and [...]
The start of the 2019 World Junior Championship tournament is just nine days away. In case you’ve missed them, Cam Robinson and I have done projected lineups for the six most interesting teams playing there: Team Finland Team Sweden Team Russia Team Czech Republic Team USA Team Canada I updated the Finnish one [...]
Episode 46 starts off with a shout out roll call to some related Podcasts you may want to follow; Hockey Night In Canada Podcast with host Rob Pizzo, Keeping Karlsson and last episode guest co-host Pete Jensen from NHL.com and host of NHL Fantasy on Ice, and Hockey Dummies where I goest on their latest [...]
*** The World Junior Championships are exciting times for multiple reasons. Its fantastic hockey, its emotionally charged, it puts countries' entire hockey programs on display, and of course, it sets the stage for prospects to make a name for themselves for the more casual fan. This makes the tournament a perfect time to [...]
USHL Report – December 14, 2018 It is great to be back covering even more prospects from the USHL. With the WJC coming up in less than two weeks. The top prospects game does not take place until January so the January edition will focus more on that along with a WJC recap. Here [...]
The Canadians always have a target on their backs at the World Junior Championships. None more than this year. The defending champions are also the hosts. The last time this tournament was on home ice, Team Canada had to watch the Americans celebrate in front of them. While the team will be [...]
Top 17 fantasy hockey prospects Why 17? Well because I do things differently! I too will not add Pettersson and not add goalies, but I will do a list of players with NHL games played vs players with none. Also YES I know I put Svechnikov ahead of Pettersson to start the year in [...]
