In preparation for the NHL Entry Draft, I've been breaking down mini-battles on the draft boards. Earlier in the season, I took a look at the consensus top two forwards in this draft class – Andrei Svechnikov vs Filip Zadina. I followed that up with a comparison of Quinn Hughes vs Adam Boqvist. More [...]
Welcome back to my Thursday ramblings, THIS time they will be readable! YES! Mind you last week was fixed a day later which is why we rule here! Time for me to do part 2 of my draft preferences list, and then before the draft I hope to compile a much bigger and [...]
Fans of disgustingly long playoff games were given a rare treat on Wednesday evening. In what ended as the longest game in AHL history, Alex Krushelnyski tallied for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms in the fifth overtime frame. The goal sent the Charlotte Checkers and what remained of their in-house fans to bed [...]
Welcome back to my Thursday ramblings or as everyone calls it “the must read ramblings” … that or “I’ll ignore the website for the day” I can’t decide. I am going to go over the first half of my quick draft preferences for teams and a good 2012 draft story **************** [...]
*** Editor note- WordPress has decided to turn my weekly routine into an editing and formatting nightmare for no apparent reason, so I apologize for and total failure on my part to make this piece read-able. I really tried. As the Jets rolled over the Preds last night, I couldn't help but think about Winnipeg's [...]
I am back for some Thursday ramblings. With the draft lottery completed I am going to discuss my two keeper leagues and which players I am thinking of targeting with my picks. I may give some late gems I am looking at but I am afraid too many people in my pools read [...]
*** We finally have the official draft order for the first half of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Playoffs will decide the rest, but we know who's in the running for the biggest names on the board. Also this week, we were all lucky enough to gain access to Cam Robinson's Top 115 Prospects [...]
Brayden Olofson The quarter-finals have been set for the U18 World Championships in Russia. A tremendous variety of talent has been showcased throughout the round-robin play, featuring top-prospects for the next three NHL entry-drafts; four if you count 15-year-old Frenchman Flavian Dair who won’t be eligible until 2021. The 2019 class has been particularly [...]
The top ten prospects are mostly well known throughout the hockey community. Today I’ll take a look at some of the players ranked just outside the top ten and break them down. I’ll take a look at most of the players ranked in the range of 11-20 on my list. There’s a few players [...]
*** We are 10 days into the NHL playoffs, 3 days into AHL playoffs, amid the semifinals of OHL, WHL, and QMJHL playoffs, and a month and a half of SHL playoffs just wrapped up. My point here is that there's been so much imortant hockey being played, you would be totally forgiven for getting [...]
