Andrei Svechnikov, Elias Pettersson and Filip Chytil Highlight Pool B The Canadian Junior team has had a challenging start to their camp. Wednesday night saw them lose their first match 3-0 to the U Sports All-Stars (plus Carter Hart and Colton Point [...]
Happy one month of prospect ramblings to me, I am still here. It calls for a celebratory song: {youtube}ox2mpOiUUmc{/youtube} ************* Big news for the Czech World Junior squad as the New York Rangers officially loaned Filip Chytil from Hartford to play in the World Junior tournament. {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" [...]
Rolling into some Team Canada talk for the WJC, here's a few ramblings of players I've been meaning to mention. ---------------------- Ty Ronning (NYR, 7th Rd 2016) had a terrific night on Saturday, firing 6 shots on net, ending up with two goals and two assists. He's seeing a surge in offense this season jumping from 0.78 [...]
If you’re anything like me, boxing day holds a special place in your heart. No, it’s not the hours of lining up outside of big box stores for their door crashing sales and the subsequent videos of human beings trampling their fellow man to save a couple bucks off a piece of technology that [...]
*** I got a little distracted from the prospects path for this week's Ramblings, but in the end I do think it's relevant when setting player expectations for young forwards. We know it takes a special talent to be a first-line forward. We also think that second and third line players are better if they [...]
Elias Pettersson looks to keep his torrid pace going for Team Sweden at the upcoming WJHC Just a quick one today, folks… but you know what they say, sometimes the best things in life come in small packages. …Although I’m pretty sure Johnny Gaudreau started that phrase. ** My esteemed colleagues, [...]
Well it’s December now, which means Christmas is coming fast, and with it the World Junior. Teams are starting to name preliminary rosters as Finland and the United States have recently done so, let’s start there. Looking back at the World Junior summer showcase, the American top line of Logan Brown, Casey Mittelstadt and Kailer [...]
Well now after an intense week I am back with another ramblings, but this ramblings will have to be a quick and not well set up ramblings as previous as I am writing this late at night. Do not fret reader next week this will be better and more coherent. I will [...]
Kyle Connor! Ivan Provorov! Who should you be truly watching on Florida?? ------------------------------ It's been 9 games now since Kyle Connor had less than two shots on net. He had 18:33 in ice time and 4:07 in PP time against MIN. He's the example of what can happen for a potential offensive star to start [...]
*** Rookies have been getting the cold shoulder this week - Puljujarvi is getting bumped by Cammalleri on McDavid's wing, Keller is on Richardson's wing rather than Stepan's, and Tim Heed has been a scratch for San Jose despite being the second-highest-scoring D on the squad. Now that we're past the quarter-pole and teams [...]
