Welcome back to the third edition of the Prospect Ramblings quarantine mini-series where I’ve been looking into each NHL pipeline with a goal of uncovering each team’s best candidate for the 2021 Calder Trophy. As expected, certain teams have made this activity quite challenging. With the Eastern Conference having been covered over the [...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capitals-insider/wp/2015/06/27/winners-and-losers-from-the-2015-nhl-draft/ Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I will continue my project for the next couple of ramblings. If you forget I am taking a look at the past NHL drafts (since 2014) and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related. I started with 2014 [...]
Last week I kicked off yet another mini-series with the goal of revealing a player from every NHL pipeline, who has the potential to contend for the 2021 Calder Trophy. Obviously, we're bound to see several newly drafted prospect put their name in the hat, but at this point, it's difficult to assign them [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. My plan for the next couple of ramblings will be to take a look at the past drafts and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related. This will be for 2014-2019 as players earlier than that are quite established NHLers, yes there [...]
Will Cuylle (#13) and Donovan Sebrango fight each other at the CHL Top Prospects Game (Photo Courtesy of the CHL) With speed and skill becoming the hottest commodities in the modern-day NHL, the 'skilled pest' has become a bit of market inefficiency. Players like Tom Wilson and the Tkachuk brothers have become [...]
https://cdn.ontariohockeyleague.com/uploads/hamilton_bulldogs/2019/03/30183843/Jan-Jenik.jpg Every year at the NHL Entry Draft, NHL teams are always looking to find the hidden gems. Of course, they are also trying to grab the marquis players like Alexis Lafrenière, Quinton Byfield, Lucas Raymond, Tim Stützle and Jamie Drysdale, but teams are also looking for the diamond in the [...]
Despite the NHL continuing to hold on to the 2019-20 season by a thread, the year's Calder Trophy race is all but made official. Between Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes, the award has largely been a two-horse race since November, with a couple of other players jockeying in the distance for third place. [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings and boy do I have a treat for you. A reading treat, not something like chocolate covered almonds. This day I am going to write about which players from the 2014 to 2019 drafted outside the first round should have instead been first round selections over other [...]
Yevgeny Oksentyuk celebrating a goal for the Flint Firebirds of the OHL (photo courtesy of the OHL) This week, we're going to have a bit of fun and debate some prospects! I’ll be expanding on a few of the answers to the question I recently tweeted out. I asked the Twitterverse to give [...]
Image courtesy of NHL.com This season, there were a quite a few draft eligible prospects in the QMJHL that put on a clinic and could be useful fantasy assets down the stretch. So, if you are already trying to bone up on which fantasy hockey prospects that you should have on [...]
