Brendan Brisson has emerged as one of the top draft-eligible prospects playing in the USHL. Brisson is the son of former QMJHL player and now renounced sports agent, Patrice Brisson, who represents several NHLers including John Tavares (Toronto Maple Leafs), Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks), Anze Kopitar (Los Angeles Kings), Sidney [...]
Welcome back for another edition of the Calder Power Rankings. February has been another exciting month thus far, and some players are making major strides. It’s truly become the year of the defenseman, so in addition to glancing over Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes, make sure you dig deeper into some of the blueliners [...]
Oliver Suni (left) and Ty Tullio of the Oshawa Generals Photo Courtesy of the Oshawa Generals website Welcome back to my weekly ramblings. We're back this week with another edition of Player A or B! It was well-received last time so this week I’ll be expanding on some of the answers to [...]
This past Monday night, I attended the Beanpot semi-finals at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The atmosphere and the hockey on display kept everyone in the Garden hungry for more. The third period of play in the Boston College/Boston University matchup was thrilling. There is no better word [...]
Last August I wrote a piece for DobberHockey’s The Journey discussing my predictions for the CHL season to be. With only a handful of weeks remaining in the regular season campaign, we’ve all but seen what will come of the year and it seems like as good of a time as any to [...]
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings. This week I am going to go over the guaranteed playoff teams’ prospects they may move in a deal to improve the Stanley Cup chances. That is sure a mouthful to get across. The contenders I will go over are: Washington, Pittsburgh, Boston, Tamp Bay, St. [...]
Welcome back for another edition of the Calder Power Rankings. January’s been a great month to follow most of the NHL’s top rookies and a comparatively sad one for others. While the likes of Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes continue to assert their two-way dominance, former contenders such as Victor Olofsson and Ilya [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings, this week I want to take a look back at the 2016 draft, highlight some players that are not yet NHL established, have been slightly cast-off, and try to predict their future outcomes. It should be a blast (from the past!) so buckle up. But first, [...]
I'm sorry. Sometimes in life, we get it wrong. In prospect evaluations and draft rankings, we get it wrong all the time. Every year there are players that we may be lower on than others and we question how others see those players in such high regard. Six months later we realize that we [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Holloway, Quinn and Perfetti Shift Work For this Sunday’s Prospect Ramblings, I’ve decided to look at a couple of shifts for three draft-eligible prospects. I asked my followers for who they wanted to see featured and I made selections based on their responses. Dylan Holloway Let’s kick things [...]
