The World Juniors Championships provide one of the biggest stages for junior-aged players to put their skills on display and make their mark on the world stage. It's a chance for a player to enamor teams with a great performance on the biggest stage of junior hockey. For some players, it's the chance of [...]
Every year we all sit down on Boxing Day (or just December 26th for non-Canadians) to watch the World Junior Championship. An annual tradition that is the Canadian equivalent to March Madness. The best players under the age of 20, from all around the world get together for two weeks of fun. One [...]
Photo courtesy of https://isport.blesk.cz/ Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We will be focusing in on [...]
Photo Courtesy of https://ontariohockeyleague.com/ Welcome back to my mid-week, every week Prospect Ramblings! This week I'll be expanding on some of the answers to the question I recently tweeted out. I asked the Twitterverse to give me two players from the 2020 NHL Draft class and I would choose between them and [...]
Photo courtesy of hockeymagasinet.com Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We will be focusing in on [...]
The NHL rookie record for points by a defenseman is 76. That was done by none other than Hall of Famer Larry Murphy in 1980-81. Cale Makar, through 23 games, is on pace for 89 points. While it may be unlikely that Makar keeps this pace, thinking that he could sustain this enough to [...]
Photo courtesy of https://omni.se/ Ten minutes and fifteen seconds. That's the average amount of ice time that Lucas Raymond is playing when in the lineup with Frölunda. In that time, Raymond has just one goal and two assists through 14 games with his primary team in the SHL. For a prospect in [...]
Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We will be focusing in on that player’s shifts and getting a [...]
Photo Courtesy of TSN Goalies are Voodoo. Or are they? Scouting goaltenders has always been one of the more difficult tasks in the world of evaluating prospects. It is a position that is furthest from any other in terms of evaluation. The position itself is unique in a game that already requires [...]
Photo Courtesy of the CHL Welcome back to my mid-week, every week Prospect Ramblings! As usual, I'll be taking a look around the prospect world and trying to make sense of the endless chaos. This week I'll be looking at the pair of games that the QMJHL played in their leg of [...]
