Hockey is back! The World Cup is dominating hockey headlines and the annual rookie tournaments which usually have no competition this time of year are an afterthought. There are some prospects playing in the World Cup and Hayden Soboleski looked at that in his Prospects Ramblings on Sunday. There are Rookie Tournaments across North America [...]
For the Oilers, the best move they made was simply not making a move at all. For days, weeks and months there were rumours swirling around a potential trade for a RHD, and there was good reason to believe the Oilers may have been willing to part with the fourth overall selection. Despite the [...]
It’s a busy time of the year in hockey, and this past weekend was the Christmas morning equivalent for hockey prospects and hockey scouts as the hockey world converged in Buffalo New York for the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. It was also yours truly first time at the draft. […]
Calgary Hitman defenseman Jake Bean turned 18 today. Bean is the top WHL prospect in the draft and shifting through a group of defensemen which includes Bean, Dante Fabbro, Olli Juolevi, Mikhail Sergachev and Jakob Chycrun is a great problem to have if you are an NHL general manager with a pick in the top [...]
Team Finland has won the Gold Medal at the 2016 U18 World Championships with a convincing 6 -1 win over rival Team Sweden. 2016 draft eligible prospect Jesse Puljujarvi led his country to victory with a three goal performance and helped secure his ranking as a top three draft prospect. {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A [...]
Take a glance at your calendar, people. The Frozen Four is upon us… and it couldn’t come a minute too soon. […]
The London Knight trio all surpass the century mark in points, Matthews’ Zurich Lions swept in the first round of NLA, the Finnish kids begin their Liiga playoffs and a recap of the CHL and AHL Wednesday games… […]
Tyler Benson shut down for the remainder of the year, Top 3 Draft prospects and a couple of Prospects signed multi-year contract deals… […]
Rambling about Top 3 Draft Eligibles, the hat-trick frenzy in the WHL, the CHL Top Prospects game… Let's start with the two 2016 Draft eligible Finnish prospects, Patrik Laine and Jesse Puljujarvi, who have slowed from their almost two point per game scoring pace at the WJC, but they're still scoring at a [...]
In the final of a three part series, Youngblood Talks WJC features key prospects on the European squads. To view Team Canada and Team USA features follow the accompanied links. After being knocked off by the Russians at the 2015 World Junior Championships, Sweden heads to Finland ready for the 2016 version armed with a [...]
