Philip Tomasino in his new Oshawa Generals sweater Welcome back to my weekly Prospect Ramblings, this week will be a bit less formal as I go through my notebook and talk about some of the notable performances or players that stuck out in some recent games that I've watched. I'll take a [...]
The World Junior Championships are underway and the tournament has lived up to the hype yet again! With early upsets, blowouts, and battles that have gone down to the wire, the World Juniors is delivering all of the excitement that we all crave at this time of year. The stars have certainly come out [...]
Photo Courtesy of https://ontariohockeyleague.com/ Welcome back to my mid-week, every week Prospect Ramblings! This week I'll be expanding on some of the answers to the question I recently tweeted out. I asked the Twitterverse to give me two players from the 2020 NHL Draft class and I would choose between them and [...]
The NHL rookie record for points by a defenseman is 76. That was done by none other than Hall of Famer Larry Murphy in 1980-81. Cale Makar, through 23 games, is on pace for 89 points. While it may be unlikely that Makar keeps this pace, thinking that he could sustain this enough to [...]
Photo Courtesy of TSN Goalies are Voodoo. Or are they? Scouting goaltenders has always been one of the more difficult tasks in the world of evaluating prospects. It is a position that is furthest from any other in terms of evaluation. The position itself is unique in a game that already requires [...]
Photo Courtesy of the CHL Welcome back to my mid-week, every week Prospect Ramblings! As usual, I'll be taking a look around the prospect world and trying to make sense of the endless chaos. This week I'll be looking at the pair of games that the QMJHL played in their leg of [...]
Welcome back to my mid-week Prospect Ramblings. Today, in honour of Halloween tomorrow, we are going to look at some spooky stats and scary starts from the first month of the season. Some will be scary good, some will be downright terrifyingly bad, but there's certain to be ghoulish feel to this week's Ramblings! [...]
Image Courtesy of The Athletic Welcome back to my weekly Prospect Ramblings. Some weeks are structured, some are a little more loose and random thoughts. This week is the latter. We're just going to go over some of the thoughts from the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and the early week in the prospect [...]
Photo courtesy of https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/ Welcome to my weekly Wednesday ramblings! No more bi-weekly Friday thoughts, now you'll get me mid-week, every week! Today we're going to take a look at some of the early returns from the 2019 NHL Draft. Who's been hot to start the year and who is already making [...]
Photo courtesy of https://www.defendingbigd.com/ Welcome back to my bi-weekly ramblings about what's going on in and around the hockey world! With the NHL preseason underway, the Twittersphere is reacting to what they see with complete rationality. No one is propping up their star prospects or their favourite teams third-liner who had a solid [...]
