https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capitals-insider/wp/2015/06/27/winners-and-losers-from-the-2015-nhl-draft/ Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I will continue my project for the next couple of ramblings. If you forget I am taking a look at the past NHL drafts (since 2014) and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related. I started with 2014 [...]
Photo by Rena Laverty, courtesy of the U.S. NTDP I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Dylan Peterson, a center for the U.S. National Team Development Program. We chatted about his season, his family's role in his development and he tells a funny story about the shootout. We [...]
Photo by Rena Laverty, courtesy of the U.S. NTDP I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Drew Commesso, the goaltender from the U.S. National Team Development Program. We chatted about his season, the goaltending position in general and we took a look at some of his game tape [...]
Today, I decided to look at a topic that’s often discussed: how good exactly are NHL teams at scouting? NHL teams spend a lot of money on scouting. Every team has a large scouting crew on their payroll, and those scouts travel around the world to see prospects in action. Nowadays, there are [...]
Groupthink is a phenomenon where a group of individuals make irrational choices in the decision-making process, because they conform to overall group results. Spend enough time on Twitter and it will not take you long to spot this mentality, both inside and outside of the hockey world, if you are looking for it. [...]
Last week I kicked off yet another mini-series with the goal of revealing a player from every NHL pipeline, who has the potential to contend for the 2021 Calder Trophy. Obviously, we're bound to see several newly drafted prospect put their name in the hat, but at this point, it's difficult to assign them [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. My plan for the next couple of ramblings will be to take a look at the past drafts and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related. This will be for 2014-2019 as players earlier than that are quite established NHLers, yes there [...]
The NHL Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed ‘Team of the Month’, and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look at a player. This month the [...]
Will Cuylle (#13) and Donovan Sebrango fight each other at the CHL Top Prospects Game (Photo Courtesy of the CHL) With speed and skill becoming the hottest commodities in the modern-day NHL, the 'skilled pest' has become a bit of market inefficiency. Players like Tom Wilson and the Tkachuk brothers have become [...]
Alexander Holtz setting up with Djurgårdens In the hockey world, glory can be achieved in any number of ways. It can be in the form or a timely save, a blocked shot, or a deft pass. But more often than not, the legends grow off of the goalscorers’ stick. The players who [...]
