Photo Courtesy of https://mayorsmanor.com/ On Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings called up center prospect Gabriel Vilardi from the AHL’s Ontario Reign. In his first game with the Kings, against the Florida Panthers, Vilardi recorded his first NHL goal on his very first shift. Vilardi had picked up the puck from defenseman Kurtis [...]
Back as promised and by popular demand, the mid-season expectation versus reality grades have quickly become the three-quarter-season expectation vs reality grades. To recap the concept of this piece, the 2019 NHL Entry Draft is more than 200 days old we’re quickly beginning to get a picture of how last year’s draft [...]
The Bakersfield Condors hosted the Ontario Reign on Field Trip Day at Rabbobank Arena in Bakersfield, CA. Photo by Owen Main - Fansmanship.com. 11/29/18 (Image: credit to mayorsmanor.com) As the NHL trade deadline quickly approaches chances are your fantasy deadline is not far behind, so I thought it would be beneficial [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. This week I will go over what teams I think will make deals to make the playoffs as they assume they are in. Same format as two weeks ago, so a couple notes. Also, #GoodTweet of the week: {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Only about 1000 games to [...]
Nolan Foote celebrating a goal at the World Juniors Every year around this point of the season, teams start to make moves and improve ahead of the trade deadline. Every trade that goes down is broken down on numerous all-day broadcasts but the one area they seem to lack at times is [...]
Gabe Vilardi happy to be back in hockey after back injuries threatened his career. Photo Courtesy of https://mayorsmanor.com/ Welcome back to the AHL Report! For our February edition, we are going extend upon our January report by taking a special focus on “standout” players. Now a month further along inthe AHL season, [...]
Brendan Brisson has emerged as one of the top draft-eligible prospects playing in the USHL. Brisson is the son of former QMJHL player and now renounced sports agent, Patrice Brisson, who represents several NHLers including John Tavares (Toronto Maple Leafs), Patrick Kane (Chicago Blackhawks), Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks), Anze Kopitar (Los Angeles Kings), Sidney [...]
Welcome back for another edition of the Calder Power Rankings. February has been another exciting month thus far, and some players are making major strides. It’s truly become the year of the defenseman, so in addition to glancing over Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes, make sure you dig deeper into some of the blueliners [...]
Northeastern celebrates their 2OT goal to win the Beanpot. Photo courtesy of Josh Tessler. It has been a great month for college hockey. The Northeastern University Huskies wonthe Beanpot in a thrilling matchup against the Boston University Terriers in double overtime onMonday night at TD Garden. The University of North Dakota Fighting [...]
Jake Sanderson, Stanislav Svozil, Emil Andrae, Marat Khusnutdinov and Roni Hirvonen were some of the stars of the U18 Five Nations tournament in Czech Republic. Last week, under-18 teams from Finland, Sweden, Russia, Czech Republic and USA got together in Czech Republic to play a Five Nations tournament. European teams have these kind of [...]
