Canada's captain Barrett Hayton celebrates after defeating Russia 4-3 in the gold medal game at the World Junior Hockey Championships in Ostrava, Czech Republic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz Fifth overall pick Barrett Hayton is off to a slow start to his young career. The Peterborough native has amassed just seven points in [...]
The Coyotes are in a weird spot right now. On one hand they have several high-paid veterans on the team and are awfully close to the Salary Cap ceiling. That would be fine if they were Stanley Cup contenders except for the fact the Coyotes aren’t expected to finish very high in the standings [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on creating a 1st round lottery, mock draft, and playoff simulator for the NHL Rank King app. When the NHL released their ‘phased lottery system’ I began implementing it as an option to hopefully give a somewhat realistic scenario of what could happen at the [...]
It was nothing short of some turbulent couple weeks leading up to the 2017 NHL entry draft for the Coyotes. Here’s a brief rundown of what happened: Andrew Barroway bought out the team’s minority owners, becoming the Coyotes sole owner. Shane Doan, long time Yote and face of the franchise was told he will not [...]
Going into the 2016 draft weekend I was still not quite sure on new Coyotes GM John Chayka. On one hand trading for the rights and then signing Alex Goligoski was a quality move. On the other hand, trading prospect Maxim Letunov, who had an awesome freshman season at UCONN, seemed like an odd [...]
