Each year, prospects make a name for themselves in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and go on to contribute for their clubs as full time NHL players the following season. It happened a season ago with Jonathan Drouin in a big way with 14 points in Tampa Bay’s 17 games en route to the Eastern Conference [...]
Auston Matthews, C Shoots: L Height: 6-2 Weight: 194 Born: 1997-09-17 Hometown: Scotsdale, AZ Draft Eligible: 2016 by Toronto Maple Leafs, 1st Overall Observations: April 2017 – With his rejection of playing the World Championships, the Matthews rookie season is complete. He came, he scored, he threw some size around, [...]
The U18 World Championship is over and the USA took the Gold Medal, Finland claims Silver while Russia finished with the Bronze. For the USA, it is their tenth Gold and 15th overall Medal. The USNTDP has had a lot of success having their national team play together for the season and the U18 typically [...]
Draft Eligible Risers 2017**** ---------- Each year there are risers and sliders from the draft board. The buzz created from exceptional play and new found potential sometimes forces teams to draft players above where they should be simply because they view them as "must have" players. In other cases, when others start the slide down [...]
The NHL is providing us with a very entertaining rotation of coaches this offseason, and for fantasy hockey players one major change has already happened. Ken Hitchcock is the new coach of the Dallas Stars - the offensive dynamos who failed to make the post-season and took a major step backwards after seeming so promising [...]
Auston Matthews displays the intense focus that has positioned him to receive the NHL's rookie-of-the-year award. In this new instant-rookie stardom Age of Wonders for NHL-watchers, Calder Trophy voters can expect to have a difficult decision more often than not. After choosing sensational Blackhawk Artemi Panarin a year ago over Oiler savior Connor McDavid [...]
| Keith Kinkaid | ||
| Catches: L | Height: 6-3 | Weight: 190 |
| Born: 1989-07-04 | Hometown: Farmingville, NY, USA | Drafted: Undrafted |
The final playoff series is under way in the Liiga. And oh boy, was the first game ever an entertaining one. KalPa ground out the win 3-2 after 90 minutes of pure thriller. Maybe the biggest surprise of the season is that KalPa made it all the way up to the finals. It is [...]
Yaroslav Dyblenko, D Shoots: L Height: 6-1 Weight: 207 Born: 1993-12-28 Hometown: Surgut, RUS Drafted: Undrafted – Signed as a Free Agent with New Jersey Devils Observations: April 2017 – Continuing its recent trend of signing undrafted international defensemen, New Jersey inked the 23-year-old Russian, who spent the [...]
News broke this morning out of the Canucks organization, Nikita Tryamkin and Philip Larsen have both signed contracts in the KHL for the next year or two. This opens the door for multiple Canucks defense prospects to battle for a spot in training camp this fall. Defenseman Nikita Tryamkin returns to @IHCAvtomobilist after one full [...]
