The 2022 World Junior Championships (WJC) concluded after being cancelled back in December and Canada won the Gold in a thrilling game in over time. Each year this tournament has some breakout prospects and players that have a standout performance that endear them to a bigger audience. Here in Canada, I, and many of those [...]
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 [...]
I haven't rambled for a while but a couple of days ago, hockey Twitter went a bit nuts because Central Scouting and Craig Button released their latest rankings, and unsurprisingly, there was controversy. We could debate an entire day about Tim Stützle and his position at the top of the European ranking and [...]
Connor McMichael and Liam Foudy celebrate their WJC win. Photo Courtesy of https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/ Happy New Year y’all! I hope everyone had a nice and safe holiday and enjoyed those World Juniors. Many stars are back with their respective teams and the trade deadline is right around the corner so let’s jump right [...]
Photo Courtesy of kelownadailycourier.ca The World Junior Championships are an annual tradition around the holidays for hockey fans. With it being the top U20 tournament around the world, it has become an event known to be dominated by 19-year-old players. Every year there are a few draft-eligible players that get into the [...]
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 [...]
The 2019 Hlinka-Gretzky Cup starts on August 5th which is tomorrow! For many, this is the start of the scouting season because most of the world’s top prospects eligible for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft will be playing in this event. The games will be played on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and then [...]
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 [...]
