Photo courtesy of the Chicago Wolves/AHL The NHL-CHL agreement has long been a complaint amongst fans, and even NHL teams to an extent. It is simple at its root. The base of it is that players have to be either 20 years old or have played four seasons in junior hockey before [...]
Nashville’s 2015 2 nd rounder Yakov Trenin scores his first-NHL goal in his second call-up game for the Predators (Photo courtesy of nhl.com) Highlights & Updates from November's AHL Report Joey Keane, D (Hartford)Since the November AHL Report, Keane has only continued to flourish in his firstprofessional hockey season. Despite the Wolf Pack [...]
Photo courtesy of hockeymagasinet.com Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We will be focusing in on [...]
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 [...]
*** Thanks for joining us for our August 31-in-31 series! Every day this month we will be taking a look at each team and diving into their prospect depth charts, risers and fallers, graduating prospects, and top ten prospects in the system. *** Offseason moves It was once again another disappointing season in the [...]
*** Thanks for joining us for our August 31-in-31 series! Every day this month we will be taking a look at each team and diving into their prospect depth charts, risers and fallers, graduating prospects, and top ten prospects in the system. *** Offseason moves After fighting through over 300+ man games lost [...]
‘ This week, I didn’t have a topic in mind for my ramblings. I was scrolling through the Dobber Forum looking for ideas when it hit me – I’ll take some prospects-related questions from the forum and provide my answer here. I tried to select questions that might be relevant in more than just one [...]
Left wing Blake McLaughlin is lighting up scoreboards at a point-per-game pace (20 G, 22 A, 44 games) for the defending champion Chicago Steel, sitting just behind USHL vet and Vegas draftee Jack Dugan (22 G, 29 A) for top point producer on the squad. Ticketed as a potential second round pick this June [...]
This week the Preseason USCHO’s Division I Men’s College Hockey Poll was released. With the college hockey regular season starting in full force on October 1st, I figured now was a good time to dig a little deeper into the Top 20 and provide some veterans to watch and some incoming freshmen to keep a [...]
The round-robin of the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament (U18) have wrapped up. The semi-finals will be played on Friday. Below is a quick round up of the group standings, the overall medal leaders in the history of the U18 tournament, the top-5 goalies and the top-10 skaters in the entire tournament. BRECLAV GROUP [...]
