The talented 2023 NHL Draft is now on the horizon. The draft is critical to owners, fans, and all of the management involved because it is how dynasties are created. One draft can change the course of an entire franchise. The Pittsburgh Penguins built their successful core through the draft, for instance, drafting Marc-Andre Fleury [...]
10. Winnipeg Jets - 79.3 Harling - 83 High - 81 Quinn - 79 Rines - 80 Gehrels - 77 Nuno - 89 Itovitch - 66 It is seemingly time for the Winnipeg Jets to retool their team after years of running back the same core. With Mark Scheifele, Blake Wheeler, and Connor Hellebuyck all [...]
16. Chicago Blackhawks - 76.1 Harling – 79 Quinn – 81 Rines – 81 Itovitch – 71 High – 70 Nuño – 83 Gehrels – 68 Chicago finished with the third-best odds (11.5%) to win the Connor Bedard sweepstakes. Even if they don’t win first overall, they still have an excellent shot at picking third [...]
Note for readers: A brief error in counting disorganized the previous two pieces and some teams are out of order. Check them back out to see the fix. ****** 23. Vancouver Canucks - 66.3 Harling – 69 Quinn – 79.5 Rines – 70 Itovitch – 58 High – 54.5 Nuno – 75 Gehrels – [...]
26. New York Rangers - 62.5 Harling – 69 High – 56.5 Quinn – 67 Rines – 68 Gehrels – 59 Nuno – 67 Itovitch – 51 When it comes to the New York Rangers prospect pool, it must be remembered that most of their 'prospects' have graduated. With Alexis Lafreniere and Kappo Kakko [...]
32. Pittsburgh Penguins – 51.8 Harling – 53 High – 49 Quinn – 51.5 Rines – 53 Gehrels – 47 Nuno – 60 Itovitch - 49 The rebuild era in Pittsburgh is coming. This past summer the Penguins decided to resign aging core veterans Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, rather than trade them as [...]
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. This week, I will share some thoughts on finding value in multi-cat formats by exploiting category biases in your fellow managers; then we will link that discussion back [...]
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. — Congratulations to Adam Fantilli for winning the Hobey Baker Award as the NCAA’s top player in 2022-23! The other two finalists were Logan Cooley (ARI) and Mathew [...]
The 2023 NHL Draft class has been a joy to scout. While it remains early to label it as the best class since 2005 - 2015 also has a strong claim there - it is certainly stronger than the past two classes by a fair amount. That is not only true at the top [...]
Prospect Ramblings: 2023 ‘NHL Ready’ Eligibles I’m still under the belief that no player from the 2022 draft was NHL ready come September. There were obvious growing pains for Juraj Slafkovsky, Shane Wright spent the bulk of the season in the OHL, and Simon Nemec and David Jiricek were mostly AHLers. The story is [...]
