The Blues had a successful regular season in 2019-2020, finishing first in the Western Conference with 94 points. Their post-season, however, didn’t go as well as they saw their playoff run end early by the Vancouver Canucks. With that behind them, the Blues had quite an eventful off-season, heading into the draft with seven picks [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings and coincidentally the first ever on the internet: NHL 2020 Re-Draft. I have been to the future, five years exactly, and I can tell you what every player looks like development-wise in the 2025 off season, which is coincidentally where I wrote a majority of the [...]
Jake Neighbours lines up for a faceoff against the Prince Albert Raiders. Photo courtesy of the oilkings.ca I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Edmonton Oil Kings forward Jake Neighbours. The 2020 draft-eligible prospect was having a strong year with 70 points in 64 games. We chatted about [...]
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 [...]
**Photo: NHL.com NHL Draft Rankings - WHL April 2020 At the beginning of the 2019-20 season. one could argue the WHL was going to have a weak year. Coming off an NHL draft which saw three players drafted in the top seven picks, and seven players in the top-31, it seemed the expectations may have [...]
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 [...]
The 2020 NHL Entry Draft is still 19 months away but it's shaping up to be such an exciting draft class that I wanted to release my way-too-early ranking already now. This will likely look ridiculous a year from now when some new prospects work their way towards the spotlight and others fade away but that's just [...]
