We’re headed down the home stretch in the 2016-17 SHL season. Which for 2017 draft eligible prospects means that time is ticking to make a memorable impression on NHL scouts in hopes of improving their draft stock. At this point in the season for poolies, there should be some kind of indication whether your team [...]

Thanks to a wealth of homegrown talent, Team Sweden absolutely dominated Group A at the 2017 WJHC going 4-0 with a plus-12 goal differential. They followed up the preliminary round with an 8-3 whitewashing of Slovakia in the Quarterfinal before falling to Canada in the Semifinal and losing to Russia in the Bronze medal game. [...]

The most wonderful time of the year is right around the corner for prospects fans as the 2017 World Junior Hockey Championship gets underway in less than two weeks in the Montreal and Toronto. Sweden is one country that is always a medal threat and this year looks to be no exception.   {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" [...]

Welcome to the November installment of the SHL update where I take a look at a few of the notable performances from prospects that poolies need to know.   The second, second-round pick by Toronto in the 2016 Draft, Carl Grundstrom has had an outstanding past month for Frolunda. Skating on the second line, the [...]

  Welcome to the first in a series of monthly check-ins on notable prospect performances in the SHL. Many argue that the SHL is the third best league in the world behind the NHL and AHL. Giving this idea some credence is the relative smooth transition we’ve seen recently of players coming over to the [...]

Former NHL blueliner Jeff Brown is not a small man, but he's dwarfed by his 6-6 son Logan, for whom the Ottawa Senators traded up to select 11th overall in the 2016 NHL entry draft.   It was a disappointing season in the nation’s capital as the Senators failed to follow up on an unlikely [...]