Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. My plan for the next couple of ramblings will be to take a look at the past drafts and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related. This will be for 2014-2019 as players earlier than that are quite established NHLers, yes there [...]
The NHL Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed ‘Team of the Month’, and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look at a player. This month the [...]
Will Cuylle (#13) and Donovan Sebrango fight each other at the CHL Top Prospects Game (Photo Courtesy of the CHL) With speed and skill becoming the hottest commodities in the modern-day NHL, the 'skilled pest' has become a bit of market inefficiency. Players like Tom Wilson and the Tkachuk brothers have become [...]
Alexander Holtz setting up with Djurgårdens In the hockey world, glory can be achieved in any number of ways. It can be in the form or a timely save, a blocked shot, or a deft pass. But more often than not, the legends grow off of the goalscorers’ stick. The players who [...]
https://cdn.ontariohockeyleague.com/uploads/hamilton_bulldogs/2019/03/30183843/Jan-Jenik.jpg Every year at the NHL Entry Draft, NHL teams are always looking to find the hidden gems. Of course, they are also trying to grab the marquis players like Alexis Lafrenière, Quinton Byfield, Lucas Raymond, Tim Stützle and Jamie Drysdale, but teams are also looking for the diamond in the [...]
Tristen Robins - C - Saskatoon Blades Central Scouting didn't rate him pre-season. 134th NA - Midterm rankings 86th NA - Final rankings 14th in WHL scoring 3rd in First Year Draft eligible scoring Monster second half with 54 points in 33 games. Who is Tristen Robins? Drafted in the 4th round of the 2016 [...]
PAVEL TYUTNEV, C/RW – LOKO YAROSLAVL Player Information courtesy of Elite Prospects Pavel Tyutnev is a player who, on paper, would likely be thrown in the ‘undersized Russian group’, but there is a lot to unpack in his game. Offensively, he’s always a threat on the ice. He uses a mix of skating, strength, [...]
Despite the NHL continuing to hold on to the 2019-20 season by a thread, the year's Calder Trophy race is all but made official. Between Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes, the award has largely been a two-horse race since November, with a couple of other players jockeying in the distance for third place. [...]
Photo courtesy of Pär Bäckström/Bildbyrån Noel Gunler is a top Swedish prospect eligible for the 2020 NHL draft. He is a decent skater with an incredible shot as well as playmaking abilities. This season he played in his first full SHL season with Luleå HF, the club he has been playing with [...]
**Photo: NHL.com NHL Draft Rankings - WHL April 2020 At the beginning of the 2019-20 season. one could argue the WHL was going to have a weak year. Coming off an NHL draft which saw three players drafted in the top seven picks, and seven players in the top-31, it seemed the expectations may have [...]
