We are slowly but surely getting there. After some late summer tournaments and preseason matches, European leagues have fired up their regular season schedules. The U20 and U18 crowd have had summer showcases and we had another highly entertaining Ivan Hlinka tournament. Now, many of you are gearing up for prospect drafts. We [...]
What an ....... off season for the Capitals. First it was another disappointing exit at the hands of the Penguins (sorry for mentioning), then resigning the 2015-2016 astronomically high percentage shooter Oshie and as a result trading a younger player on a better contract for picks, doing not enough to keep Nate Schmidt from [...]
Vegas Golden Knights are about to turn five months old and they already have three, four, maybe even five blue-chip prospects in their system. There may not be many other teams you could say have that many blue-chip prospects in their system who have been around for years, and even decades. Where the Golden [...]
As the focus slowly shifts from backyard barbeques and relaxing floats on the lake to fantasy drafts and eventually, puck drop, the realization that there is no offseason for prospect junkies becomes clearer. With an eye towards helping you prepare for all your scouting needs, we’ll continue our offseason tour of 31 organizations by [...]
Last year the Leafs had a massive influx of rookie talent that had a profound positive impact on the roster, but at the same time depleted the reserves significantly as well. That being said the cupboards are far from empty and the Leafs Management team has done an admirable job of feeding the beast this [...]
Hobey Baker Award recipient Will Butcher will announce Sunday which NHL organization will get his professional services. If baseball people think the dog days are in August, they should think again. This is the slowest section of the hockey calendar, although there’s always something going on. NHL GMs not still in vacay mode [...]
The Lightning experienced an overwhelming amount of injuries over the course of the 2016-17 season leading to their first playoff miss since 2013. The injury plagued season allowed the Lightning to closely examine several of their ripening prospects, as well as potentially earn some leverage in negotiations with key RFA’s Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat, [...]
Offseason: New York Rangers had a strong offseason from a prospect perspective selecting twice in the first round of the NHL draft, acquiring defensive depth via trade and also signing several free agents. Overall the Rangers have excellent depth in net and on defence however up front is where the prospect pool thins [...]
Welcome Wagon 2017: Rudolfs Balcers (ELC), Brandon Bollig, Radim Simek, Filip Sandberg, Josef Korenar, and Antoine Bibeau Dearly Departed: Mirco Mueller (trade), David Schlemko (expansion), Nikita Jevpalovs (KHL), Patrick Marleau (UFA), Micheal Haley (UFA), Mantas Armalis (UFA) 2017 - Sharks with a Few Less Teeth Replacing the goal scoring that Patrick Marleau brought to [...]
Top Ten Prospects #1 Ivan Barbashev, C – Chicago Wolves (AHL) Barbashev seems likely to be playing 3C for the Blues with Patrik Berglund injured. He made positive impressions in his stint in the NHL. He is the type of two way center the Blues depend upon to maintain their style of play. #2 [...]
