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Liiga Report – February 2018

By |2018-02-16T15:51:15-05:00February 16th, 2018|Feature Story|

  Miro Heiskanen keeps doing Miro Heiskanen things. He and Eeli Tolvanen have been named to the Finnish Olympic team.   {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fi"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoStars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoStars</a> prospect Miro Heiskanen scored in a 2-0 exhibition win over Czech Republic. <a href="https://twitter.com/seanshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seanshapiro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StarsInsideEdge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StarsInsideEdge</a> <a href="https://t.co/gwt0rVB7vn">pic.twitter.com/gwt0rVB7vn</a></p>&mdash; Finnish jr hockey (@FINjrhockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/FINjrhockey/status/962630257063923712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">11. helmikuuta 2018</a></blockquote>https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js{/source}   Kristian [...]

Liiga Report – December 2017

By |2017-12-22T13:20:36-05:00December 22nd, 2017|Feature Story|

                            Finland's U18 Squad   With the Liiga on Christmas break, let us turn our attention to the upcoming World Junior Championship tournament that is set to begin on Dec. 26th in Buffalo. Team Finland was a dumpster fire last year, barely avoiding [...]

Liiga Report – November 2017

By |2017-11-24T22:38:16-05:00November 24th, 2017|Feature Story|

  We are nearing the end of November and a third of the games have been played in the Liiga. The usual suspects Oulu Kärpät and Tampere Tappara lead the way in the standings, with Turku TPS only one point behind. In the other end of the spectrum Otto Koivula’s Tampere Ilves is having one [...]

Finnish Liiga Update

By |2017-10-20T21:53:09-04:00October 20th, 2017|Feature Story|

  Welcome to the second season of the Liiga update. During the next seven months we will go through the most promising Finnish prospects. Our main focus will be on the 2018 NHL Entry Draft eligible players, but we are not forgetting the recently drafted young stars that are yet to make the leap to [...]

August 31-in-31: Nashville Predators

By |2018-06-12T11:01:53-04:00August 17th, 2017|Feature Story|

After the Predators fell just a little bit short from winning the Stanley Cup, the front office quickly turned their attention towards shaping their roster for the upcoming season. When the Predators traded Colin Wilson to Colorado for a fourth-round draft pick, it seemed like there would be more playing time to be divided among [...]

July 31-in-31: Nashville Predators

By |2018-06-12T11:10:22-04:00July 17th, 2017|Feature Story|

The Predators have been doing wonderful things in the NHL Entry Draft these past few years. After Barry Trotz left town, it seems that the Preds have drafted more skilled forwards than they did when Trotz was still the head coach in Nashville. On April 14, 2014 the Predators announced that Trotz would not return [...]

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