Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn't even have a [...]
Feature image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Draft Diaries: Logan Stankoven is going to be an ongoing monthly 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 [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn't even have [...]
Eighteen players were selected out of Russia in the 2020 NHL Draft, ten of which came straight out of the MHL. Since this has been a strange and confusing start to the season due to COVID forcing games to be canceled, as well as players being moved between the three major Russian leagues more [...]
Photo courtesy: Repêchage.com The season started approximately one month ago. A lot of things have happened since then and I am here to summarize some of the most fascinating and eye-catching performances by the best NHL prospects in the SHL. However, to make it even more interesting, I decided to not only [...]
The KHL season is in full swing and it has been an exciting first month. The threat of COVID is still lurking though and we have seen games postponed and forfeited as a result. Teams like Jokerit, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and SKA St. Petersburg have been particularly affected. It will be something to monitor as the [...]
Welcome back to another USHL report. This month I will go over some of the players selected from the league in the 2020 NHL Draft from Tuesday and Wednesday night. Before I start, there was some big news that happened on September 18th. The USHL came out and announced that the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders [...]
SECAUCUS, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 06: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman prepares for the first round of the 2020 National Hockey League Draft at the NHL Network Studio on October 06, 2020 in Secaucus, New Jersey. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) The second day of the 2020 NHL Draft was a blast! There were [...]
Photo courtesy of hockeymagasinet.com The first round of the 2020 NHL Draft started out as expected and then it got a bit wild! There were plenty of names falling, some wild names jumping up boards, and all the fun that always comes with the NHL Draft. Now we're given a chance to [...]
28.09.2019; Lausanne; Eishockey National League- Lausanne HC - HC Davos; Benjamin Baumgartner (Davos) (Pascal Muller/freshfocus) Central Europe is far from an NHL amateur scouting hotbed. But it's not that the region isn't producing talent. From 2008-17, a Swiss player was selected in the first round in seven of ten NHL Entry Drafts. [...]
