Welcome back, everyone! It’s the first Monday of the month and that means it’s time for some AHL talk. If you caught any of the features last year, you might recognize several of the young names who are making impressions early on this NHL season – we’ll talk about some of them later on. [...]
NCAA Hockey Drops the Puck Weekend Primer The college hockey season gets underway this weekend in the NCAA. The exciting matchup of the weekend involves a deep seeded rivalry home-and-home matchup on Saturday and Sunday between defending National Champion Minnesota-Duluth and the 18th ranked [...]
*** What’s up in the Q? Over a week has passed in the QMJHL’s 2018-19 season. As the NHL’s camps are about over, the picture will become clearer as we move towards the 15-game mark as to who will be the hungriest teams to make a push and who will try to sell [...]
WHL OCTOBER 2018 First things first. Hello. I’m Joel. I enjoy watching hockey and eating mini donuts at the rink. This picture is not me. This is Kirby Dach. I'll mention him later. I live in Regina, Saskatchewan and got a front row seat for the Memorial Cup in 2018. I’ve been covered the Calgary [...]
A good way to gauge just how important NHL general managers consider the center ice position is to look at past draft results, and how centers generally dominate the top half of the first round of every draft. And although only two centers were taken within the first 10 picks of last year’s draft, [...]
With the OHL season now underway, I’ll take a look at some of the most interesting storylines as we kick off the season. The London Knights have a large predicament on their hands here. Each team has two international spots to fill on their team, but the Knights have three players who fit into [...]
When I first developed the PNHLe value it was intended almost explicitly for fantasy hockey use and identifying under-the-radar prospects before anyone else in deep keeper leagues had even heard about those players. PNHLe is a value that attempts to predict a prospect’s optimal point production at the NHL level when that player is [...]
*** Thanks for joining us for our August 31-in-31 series! Every day this month we will be taking a look at each team and diving into their prospect depth charts, risers and fallers, graduating prospects, and top ten prospects in the system. *** Offseason Moves The Jets have been focusing on re-signing their [...]
What happened to the Washington Capitals this off season I wonder…. {youtube}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xRu1Vtl8_M{/youtube} {youtube}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiezsZrOHAo{/youtube} Offseason moves What do you do when you win the Stanley Cup the next season, well you try to bring back as close to the same team as you can and the Capitals are doing [...]
*** Thanks for joining us for our August 31-in-31 series! Every day this month we will be taking a look at each team and diving into their prospect depth charts, risers and fallers, graduating prospects, and top ten prospects in the system. *** Offseason Moves After their miraculous inaugural season, is it possible [...]
