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 [...]
Matthew Tkachuk, LW Shoots: L Height: 6-2 Weight: 202 Born: 1997-12-11 Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ Drafted: sixth overall by Calgary, 2016 Observations: Dec 2017 - There are two questions in evaluating the ceiling of Tkachuk. 1. Has he been an option for top line minutes? No, he hasn't. It's [...]
By:Kathryn Jean The NHL regular season kicks off in just over a week. NHL teams have already made their evaluations and started to adjust their squads for opening night. Over 160 OHL players were invited to 2016 NHL training camps. Only 30 of those players remain at camp and some have a good chance to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. […]
The London Knights are the Memorial Cup Champions, The AHL Calder Cup Finals begin, and the scouting combine begins and more in this week’s ramblings… […]
The Memorial Cup begins on Friday May 20 and the quest for the hardest trophy in all of sports begins. The final four teams include the Host Red Deer Rebels and the WHL Champions Brandon Wheat Kings. They are joined by the QMJHL Champion Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and the OHL Champions London Knights. The Memorial Cup [...]
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 [...]
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… […]
