Clayton Keller, C/LW Shoots: L Height: 5-10 Weight: 170 Born: 1998-07-29 Hometown: Swansea, IL, USA Drafted: 7th overall in 2016 to the Arizona Coyotes Observations: March 2018- After starting 2017-18 on fire and putting himself the front runner for the Calder Trophy, Keller's offensive production has since slowed, [...]
Elias Pettersson looks to keep his torrid pace going for Team Sweden at the upcoming WJHC Just a quick one today, folks… but you know what they say, sometimes the best things in life come in small packages. …Although I’m pretty sure Johnny Gaudreau started that phrase. ** My esteemed colleagues, [...]
The hockey world has become spoiled in recent years with tremendous rookie classes. First it was Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel, Artemi Panarin and Shayne Gostisbehere in 2015. That was followed up by the ridiculous outputs by Auston Matthews, Patrik Laine, Matt Murray, Zach Werenski and company in 2016. 2017 was expected to [...]
Victor Mete with the London Knights – 2016-17 [...]
Here’s a fun little anecdote: Back in the 1970’s my uncle was invited to the New York Rangers training camp. He was a speedy, skilled and hard-nosed winger who put up some big point totals. Sounds perfect for the goon-era of hockey, right? Well, he was also 5’7. When he arrived at [...]
The Coyotes have been seeing the impact of being, how can I say this; terrible would be the word, and building through the draft. The last few seasons saw an influx of rookies joining and having large impacts on the team. In 2016-17 we saw Christian Dvorak, Jakob Chychrun and Lawson Crouse spend the season [...]
The biggest prospect event of the year outside of the NHL draft has to be the World Junior Tournament. Last year the two were synonyms with each other as the tournament was loaded with an unprecedented number of draft eligible prospects. Not only did the games feature draft eligible prospects across several nations rosters, the [...]
The World Junior Tournament is about half a year away, but teams are starting to look at their prospects to build a roster. This weeks ramblings comes from Plymouth Michigan where our scout Zachary Devine is giving us a first hand look at what the USA team Blue and White rosters are looking like as [...]
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 [...]
Tyler Benson shut down for the remainder of the year, Top 3 Draft prospects and a couple of Prospects signed multi-year contract deals… […]
