Brendan Brisson has emerged as one of the top draft-eligible prospects playing in the USHL. Brisson is the son of former QMJHL player and now renounced sports agent, Patrice Brisson, who represents several NHLers including John Tavares (Toronto Maple Leafs), Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks), Anze Kopitar (Los Angeles Kings), Sidney [...]
Welcome back for another edition of the Calder Power Rankings. February has been another exciting month thus far, and some players are making major strides. It’s truly become the year of the defenseman, so in addition to glancing over Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes, make sure you dig deeper into some of the blueliners [...]
Northeastern celebrates their 2OT goal to win the Beanpot. Photo courtesy of Josh Tessler. It has been a great month for college hockey. The Northeastern University Huskies wonthe Beanpot in a thrilling matchup against the Boston University Terriers in double overtime onMonday night at TD Garden. The University of North Dakota Fighting [...]
Jake Sanderson, Stanislav Svozil, Emil Andrae, Marat Khusnutdinov and Roni Hirvonen were some of the stars of the U18 Five Nations tournament in Czech Republic. Last week, under-18 teams from Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic and USA got together in Czech Republic to play a Five Nations tournament. European teams have these kind of [...]
Oliver Suni (left) and Ty Tullio of the Oshawa Generals Photo Courtesy of the Oshawa Generals website Welcome back to my weekly ramblings. We're back this week with another edition of Player A or B! It was well-received last time so this week I’ll be expanding on some of the answers to [...]
World Junior Wrap-Up Congratulations to Canada and Russia on another classic battle for World Junior gold. Like many expected, Alexis Lafreniere was outstanding all tournament long and earned the honors of tournament MVP. With his performance, Lafreniere has almost certainly cemented his spot at the top of the 2020 NHL Draft rankings. [...]
This past Monday night, I attended the Beanpot semi-finals at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The atmosphere and the hockey on display kept everyone in the Garden hungry for more. The third period of play in the Boston College/Boston University matchup was thrilling. There is no better word [...]
Last August I wrote a piece for DobberHockey’s The Journey discussing my predictions for the CHL season to be. With only a handful of weeks remaining in the regular season campaign, we’ve all but seen what will come of the year and it seems like as good of a time as any to [...]
Hello my friends, hello. At the beginning of the season, many draft experts claimed that the WHL wasn't quite the hot bed that last year was. It is tough to follow a year which saw Byram, Dach, Cozens, Krebs and company featured in the top 20 but hold the phone... Defenseman Braden Schneider and [...]
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings. This week I am going to go over the guaranteed playoff teams’ prospects they may move in a deal to improve the Stanley Cup chances. That is sure a mouthful to get across. The contenders I will go over are: Washington, Pittsburgh, Boston, Tamp Bay, St. [...]
