SECAUCUS, NEW JERSEY - OCTOBER 06: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman prepares for the first round of the 2020 National Hockey League Draft at the NHL Network Studio on October 06, 2020 in Secaucus, New Jersey. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Welcome to the Thursday ramblings. This week I decided to [...]
Welcome to the Thursday Prospect Ramblings. I am going to post my top 50 prospects for the NHL Entry draft. It is pretty similar to my last rankings out in March/April because I try not to give in to recency bias, which I will also highlight. I am also going to discuss which [...]
Cole Perfetti of the Saginaw Spirit celebrates a goal. Photo courtesy of the Yahoo Sports When we look back at the 2019 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup, we think of two players primarily. The first of which was Russian star netminder, Yaroslav Askarov, who was the backbone for a gold medal finish. The second was [...]
Quinton Byfield is closer to Alexis Lafrenière than he is to whoever is at number three. That has been a sentiment I've held for the entirety of the 2019-20 season. Despite the fact that Lafrenière is the clear-cut best player today, the unique potential that Byfield possesses is what makes it a discussion. There is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Hello my friends, hello. At the beginning of the season, many draft experts claimed that the WHL wasn't quite the hot bed that last year was. It is tough to follow a year which saw Byram, Dach, Cozens, Krebs and company featured in the top 20 but hold the phone... Defenseman Braden Schneider and [...]
USNTDP U18 Team prior to a game against the University of Minnesota After the success of last season's record-breaking US National Team Development Program (USNTDP) squad, this season's group hasn't been getting nearly as much attention. While this year's team isn't likely to come close to those records, they still have a lot [...]
Photo courtesy of https://isport.blesk.cz/ Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We will be focusing in on [...]
Photo Courtesy of https://ontariohockeyleague.com/ Welcome back to my mid-week, every week Prospect Ramblings! This week I'll be expanding on some of the answers to the question I recently tweeted out. I asked the Twitterverse to give me two players from the 2020 NHL Draft class and I would choose between them and [...]
