By Victor Nuno It’s early in the 2022-23 season, but top prospects in Sweden have played roughly 20 games already so there is a decent enough sample size to make some initial observations about their progress. Here are some thoughts on some of the top players in Sweden, according to their age and draft year. [...]
Photo courtesy of Mayors Manor We are in the midst of the Under 18 World Championships, which incorporates the best players in the world not owned by NHL clubs. Well not everyone but mostly everyone, Owen Power, Matt Beniers, Kent Johnson and William Eklund should have their name called early in the NHL [...]
Photo courtesy of https://www.hockeywilderness.com/ With injuries, postponements, and COVID-19 beginning to pile up for teams during this young season more and more rookies are getting their opportunity this season. While the teams may not be too happy having to rush the development of their prospects it sure gives the fans around North [...]
Photo courtesy of NHL.com We have had a rough year. I don't think that's an unusual statement. There are so many things that happened this year that have made 2020 a year to forget and so many others that have made this such an impactful year that will weigh on our minds [...]
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow in the near future. That means an increase in the amount of pre-draft hype that will circulate most social media [...]
MOSCOW, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 27, 2018: CSKA Moscow's Kirill Kaprizov (L) and Spartak Moscow's Robin Hanzl in action in their 2018/19 KHL Regular Season ice hockey match at CSKA Arena. Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS ) Welcome to this week's ramblings! We are taking another crack at some Player A vs. Player [...]
Yevgeny Oksentyuk celebrating a goal for the Flint Firebirds of the OHL (photo courtesy of the OHL) This week, we're going to have a bit of fun and debate some prospects! I’ll be expanding on a few of the answers to the question I recently tweeted out. I asked the Twitterverse to give [...]
Kingston Frontenacs forward Martin Chromiak warms up prior to his Ontario Hockey League game against the Erie Otters at the Leon's Centre in Kingston on Friday January 3, 2020. Ian MacAlpine-Kingston Whig-Standard For this Sunday’s Prospect Ramblings, I’ve decided to look at a couple of Martin Chromiak shifts. Chromiak is a 2020 [...]
Oliver Suni (left) and Ty Tullio of the Oshawa Generals Photo Courtesy of the Oshawa Generals website Welcome back to my weekly ramblings. We're back this week with another edition of Player A or B! It was well-received last time so this week I’ll be expanding on some of the answers to [...]
I'm sorry. Sometimes in life, we get it wrong. In prospect evaluations and draft rankings, we get it wrong all the time. Every year there are players that we may be lower on than others and we question how others see those players in such high regard. Six months later we realize that we [...]
