*** NHL Playoffs and World Championship aren't the only excitement going on right now - The 2018 Memorial Cup began on Friday which means there is lots of play to discuss! Each of the 4 teams will play each other once before one gets eliminated, one gets a bye to the final, and the middle [...]
*** Editor note- WordPress has decided to turn my weekly routine into an editing and formatting nightmare for no apparent reason, so I apologize for and total failure on my part to make this piece read-able. I really tried. As the Jets rolled over the Preds last night, I couldn't help but think about Winnipeg's [...]
*** We finally have the official draft order for the first half of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Playoffs will decide the rest, but we know who's in the running for the biggest names on the board. Also this week, we were all lucky enough to gain access to Cam Robinson's Top 115 Prospects [...]
*** We are 10 days into the NHL playoffs, 3 days into AHL playoffs, amid the semifinals of OHL, WHL, and QMJHL playoffs, and a month and a half of SHL playoffs just wrapped up. My point here is that there's been so much imortant hockey being played, you would be totally forgiven for getting [...]
*** Well there we have it. The 2017-18 is nearly in the rearview mirror (an inconsequential BOS/FLA makeup game awaits tonight), and it was an absolutely fantastic year for rookies. Barzal hit 85 points, blowing everyone's expectations away, and Vancouver has a new local legend in Brock Boeser (seriously, he's everywhere here now). But now [...]
*** Before I get into prospects signing ELCs, I want to highly encourage readers to check out the most recent Finnish Liiga Update by Jokke Nevalainen. Since taking over our SHL and Liiga reports, Jokke has turned them into monster articles - I'm not sure there's more tuned-in scandinavian-focused content out there (in English anyways). Check it [...]
*** Trade activity has already started this weekend, with Nash and Brassard deals shipping picks and prospects across the league and even more to come. The obvious fallout of this is the big name added to one roster, with prospects or picks being added to the other organization. But if this prospect isn't NHL-ready, the [...]
*** One of the most fun (but often depressing) things to do is to look back at draft days from years past, and see the inevitable big misses. NHL teams' scouting departments aren't perfect and never will be, but with the amount of travel and video accessible to scouts these days, I would assume that, [...]
*** The trade deadline is approaching, and rather than list off the same NHL names you'll hear in rumors for the next two weeks, lets look at some of the prospects that could be in the return packages come Feb. 26. Big name players like Nash, Hoffman, Pacioretty, Kane, and others most likely wont be [...]
*** With the All-Star break upon us and the second half of the season ahead, we enter the dog days of the season where many players off to promising starts begin to slow down. What I wonder is: Does a rookie's previous league (CHL, NCAA, AHL) affect their season first-half/second-half splits? My hypothesis going into [...]