Welcome back to Tuesday’s Ramblings. Folks, we made it. Despite months of uncertainty, and even stretches during the regular season where there were doubts to continue on, we have made it to the post-season. Unless, of course, you are a Vancouver Canucks (me) or Calgary Flames fan. In that case, thanks to late-season Covid-19 complications, [...]
This has been a weird year for the AHL but for fans of prospects and player development, it has been a treat. Typically. a rookie AHL standout is a specific type of player, they need to be good enough to be a point per game in a professional men’s league but also not such a [...]
Welcome back to the Thursday Prospect Ramblings. This week I just would like to discuss some of the remaining field of Calder eligible players for this season. It is an easy money bet that one of Kirill Kaprizov and Jason Robertson will win the award, but what can be said about the remaining [...]
Photo courtesy of Mayors Manor We are in the midst of the Under 18 World Championships, which incorporates the best players in the world not owned by NHL clubs. Well not everyone but mostly everyone, Owen Power, Matt Beniers, Kent Johnson and William Eklund should have their name called early in the NHL [...]
Photo courtesy of the IIHF The 2021 World Under-18 Championships are four days in now with four games on the schedule again after a light two-game day on day three. Canada and Finland, the top team in each group after two games, had the night off with others looking to push their way [...]
Photo courtesy of the IIHF It was a light schedule for the U18s on day three with Canada playing Latvia and Finland taking on the Czech Republic. In predictable fashion, Canada handled its business beating the Latvian team 4-2 but was it ever close as the Canadians avoid the scare. The Finns and [...]
Photo courtesy of the IIHF Well, this tournament certainly hasn't disappointed! Day two was filled with action and unfortunately, it was a bit one-sided on a couple of occasions. Belarus showed that they aren't going to be pushed around and put a thumping on the Swiss. Group A's other game featured another blowout [...]
Photo courtesy of the IIHF That was fun! The World Under-18 Championships had an exciting opening day with a 7-6 overtime comeback win by Russia after being down 5-1 to their rival Americans. We also saw Fabian Lysell and Isak Rosén do some fun stuff for Sweden in their win over [...]
Photo courtesy of https://newsbeezer.com/ By Mikael Holm With all the talk about the worth of this year's draft picks this trade deadline, the upcoming draft class has almost become underrated. The way some people talk about this draft it sounds like you will not find any quality outside the top-15 or even [...]
With just under a month left of the season, we have seen some amazing plays from some of the league’s most promising young stars. Some of the rookies mentioned in the “Early Season Calder Trophy Race” article have continued their dominance, some have faded out of the picture, and some have emerged from the [...]
