This month, as players begin to stabilize their progression and have established a role on their respective team, I wanted to take a look at the top NHL prospects from each of the development leagues that PNHLe is evaluated for. To qualify, a prospect must currently have their rights owned by an NHL team [...]
For a long time, the scouting world was split between those who rely on stats and those who rely on the eye test. There were a lot of battles between these groups. But more recently, a lot of people have started to realize both sides have good points. The best modern scouts seem to [...]
The second installment of using PNHLe as a statistic to predict future prospect potential at the NHL level, takes a look at some of the names that are providing early returns and having immediate success in their respective leagues. You can click here if you’d like to take a look at last month’s article [...]
When I first developed the PNHLe value it was intended almost explicitly for fantasy hockey use and identifying under-the-radar prospects before anyone else in deep keeper leagues had even heard about those players. PNHLe is a value that attempts to predict a prospect’s optimal point production at the NHL level when that player is [...]
