QMJHL Report: March 2021

By |2021-03-05T11:21:42-05:00March 5th, 2021|Feature Story|

  The QMJHL has done a great job in evolving its initial plan from the beginning of the season and is getting increasingly better at continuing the season in a safe manner that adheres to Public Health guidelines, while also ensuring staff and player safety is at the highest priority.    The Protected Environment Plan [...]

Redesigning the CHL-NHL Agreement

By |2021-03-03T10:15:23-05:00March 3rd, 2021|Feature Story|

Photo courtesy of the Chicago Wolves/AHL   The NHL-CHL agreement has long been a complaint amongst fans, and even NHL teams to an extent. It is simple at its root. The base of it is that players have to be either 20 years old or have played four seasons in junior hockey before [...]

Draft Diaries: Logan Stankoven (February 2021)

By |2021-02-26T08:52:06-05:00February 26th, 2021|Feature Story|

Feature image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong   Draft Diaries: Logan Stankoven is going to be an ongoing series in which writer Jeff Rea and Kamloops Blazers forward Logan Stankoven will be collaborating to document Logan’s season. Logan will be providing commentary and quotes, telling the story from his perspective while Jeff helps weave [...]

SHL Report: February 2021

By |2021-02-25T10:49:49-05:00February 25th, 2021|Feature Story|

Photo courtesy of https://www.farjestadbk.se/   February is almost over, and the regular season in the SHL is slowly coming to an end as well. A lot has happened throughout the past month, so here is a quick recap of all the important news, updates, and prospect reports with my observations and some interesting [...]

USHL Report: Deep Diving Brent Johnson

By |2021-02-13T13:34:22-05:00February 15th, 2021|Feature Story|

Photo courtesy of https://www.sfstampede.com/   The Sioux Falls Stampede have had a rocky start to their USHL season, with a record of 12-12-3, and for good reason: they play in the same division as the two most stacked USHL teams in the Chicago Steel and the Muskegon Lumberjacks, as well as the US [...]

2021 NHL Draft: Player A vs Player B

By |2021-02-18T14:13:56-05:00February 13th, 2021|Feature Story|

Photo courtesy of the Chicago Steel It was a fun activity for the 2020 draft class so bringing back Player A vs Player B for the 2021 draft class was a no-brainer! If you didn't catch the couple from last year, the premise is fairly simple. I asked the Twitterverse to choose two players [...]

Finland’s U18 Camp and Scrimmages Review

By |2021-02-10T08:52:23-05:00February 10th, 2021|Feature Story|

Photo courtesy of http://www.leijonat.fi/   By Eetu Siltanen   The best U18 players of Finland (excluded Liiga players) gathered to play two intrasquad games in Vierumäki at the start of February and it was really interesting. Both of the games needed overtime and the first one even went to a shootout. I wanted [...]

QMJHL Report: February 2021

By |2021-02-05T12:11:03-05:00February 5th, 2021|Feature Story|

The QMJHL has now returned to action after its mid-season pause and moved forward with its Protected Environment Plan. The Quebec-based teams resumed their season on January 22nd using their host city format highlighted in last month’s article.    Heading into the Protected Environment Event the League announced that through their first wave of COVID-19 [...]

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