Canada - 2015 World Junior Champions (Terry Wilson/OHL Images) The World Junior are the most wonderful time of year. The Holiday tradition of the best junior tournament in the word has a special kind of magic. Each year the tournament has breakout players that use the tournament to propel their careers towards stardom. [...]
There have been plenty of impactful rookies around the league this season. Each division is spoiled with young talent, and in this week’s Prospect Ramblings, I wanted to highlight the Atlantic Division rookie class. Only some rookies or teams will be included in this list, but I wanted to give my quick thoughts on most [...]
Photo credit: Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images If you can afford to wait, now is an excellent time to send an offer on Jamie Drysdale (ANA) in keepers and dynasties. He has been out for a while now, and with races heating up a third of the way through the season, [...]
Pyotr Kochetkov 2nd round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes in 2019 has had an expanded role this season with the injury to Frederik Andersen and inconsistent play of Antti Raanta. We saw Kochetkov last season a little bit and expected we’d see him more this season because of the band-aid boys in front of him. [...]
All teams in Liiga are closing to their 30-game mark, which means the season is almost halfway through. Let’s take a look how the most relevant NHL-related prospects have been doing during the first half of the season. Oliver Kapanen - KalPa Kuopio (Montreal Canadiens - #64, 2021) Kapanen has had a pretty good first [...]
Cover image photo credit: Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Although Aliaksei Protas (WSH), 21, likely will not be rosterable in fantasy for several seasons still, he has the best relative Corsi For% on the Capitals by a mile right now. Along with Nic Dowd and Garnet Hathaway, Protas is part of a crucial [...]
While there are, of course, many headlines and topics to cover when talking NCAA hockey, the biggest storyline thus far this year is the handful of 2023 draft eligible prospects suiting up this year as college Freshmen. Leading the charge is a consensus top three draft pick in next Summer’s NHL entry draft, who, along [...]
Ty Nelson Ty Nelson was taken in the 3rd round in 2022 by the Seattle Kraken. The 5’10” right-handed defender had 51 points in 66 games in his draft season. He is now up to 29 points in 24 games as the assistant captain for North Bay Battalion in the OHL. His Hockey Prospecting star [...]
We are two months into the NHL season, so we have also gone through a solid chunk of the American Hockey League (AHL) season. There have been plenty of impressive prospects making an impact in the minors, but in this edition of ramblings, I want to highlight three that are ready to take on regular [...]
