September 7th2018 It was a tough night to say the least for the Montreal Canadiens rookies against the Senators’, but it was also a rather unfair matchup between the two teams who suited much different lineups at the Bell Place in Laval, Quebec this Friday night. So the not-so-young Senators won the game, 4-0. But it [...]
Welcome to the new and improved Thursday prospect ramblings, or the same ones as always but now I am back gearing up for the fantasy hockey year! I am going to go over the first 15 teams (alphabetically) and pick a prospect (or young player in case some teams have no room) to [...]
The Champions Hockey League started last week. Even though it’s supposed to be this amazingly interesting league where the top teams from different European leagues play against each other to see which one is the best, it’s not super popular even in Europe. But regardless of that, it’s a great scouting opportunity because there [...]
image courtesy of Blackhawk Up *** Fantasy season is here, which means its time to start digging through pages and pages of player lists to find the buried treasures. Good luck for you - that's exactly what we're here for. I've gone through Fantrax's full list of rookie players to find the [...]
Sweden, Finland, Russia and the Czechs got together in Sweden this weekend to play a friendly U20 tournament against each other. These teams often play against each other throughout the season to prepare for the World Juniors. None of the teams brought their top squad into the tournament as this one is meant more [...]
‘ Pori Ässät team in the Finnish Liiga promoted today’s preseason game as “Jesperi Kotkaniemi’s final game in Pori for now”. They even arranged a Kotkaniemi fan meeting after the game where he signed autographs for his fans. In the actual game, Kotkaniemi was used as the number one center for his team. Ässät scored [...]
It’s difficult to put a figure on the number of times I’ve been asked to rank my top 10 fantasy prospects heading into the 2018-19 campaign. It has to be well into the triply-digits. Mittelstadt or Pettersson? Tolvanen or Svechnikov? What about Rasmus Dahlin? Filip Zadina? Martin Nečas? “Who the hell do [...]
Well well well, look who came back to my ramblings. Welcome, let’s discuss some recent news, notes, and signings ********* Just before the draft (April 30, 2018) it was reported that Denisenko had two years left on his contract: {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Grigori Denisenko told me 'almost every' NHL team [...]
‘ Before I start, just a reminder that all the summer series articles can be found from here: 31-in-31 series. It’s August now but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop – quite the opposite in fact. In August, we have another 31-in-31 series where we review the entire prospect system of the organization: graduating [...]
Western Canada is the hockey hub for 2019. The World Junior Summer Showcase kicks off in Kamloops, BC tomorrow and runs until August 4th. Normally this event is held in Plymouth, Michigan but I guess they figured why not shake things up. Just two days later, the Ivan Hlinka Gretzky Cup [...]
