Welcome back to another USHL report. This month I will go over some of the players selected from the league in the 2020 NHL Draft from Tuesday and Wednesday night. Before I start, there was some big news that happened on September 18th. The USHL came out and announced that the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders [...]
The USHL season is still under two months away from it’s supposed Friday, November 6th start date, while preseason games are expected to start mid-October. The plan for the league is that each team will play 54 regular-season games between November 6, 2020 and April 24, 2021. While we’re still undergoing the [...]
Colby Ambrosio of the Tri-City Storm (USHL) Colby Ambrosio is one of the more underrated prospects when talking about the 2020 NHL Draft. The Ontario born forward was selected in the fourth round #66 overall by Ottawa 67's in the 2018 OHL Priority Selection. However, after much thought, Ambrosio decided he would [...]
Photo by Rena Laverty, courtesy of the U.S. NTDP I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Drew Commesso, the goaltender from the U.S. National Team Development Program. We chatted about his season, the goaltending position in general and we took a look at some of his game tape [...]
USNTDP U18 Team prior to a game against the University of Minnesota What have you been up to during the COVID-19 social distancing and quarantines? That's the main question I asked the players who had their final U.S. National Team Development Progam season cut short. I was granted a bit of access [...]
USNTDP U18 Team prior to a game against the University of Minnesota After the success of last season's record-breaking US National Team Development Program (USNTDP) squad, this season's group hasn't been getting nearly as much attention. While this year's team isn't likely to come close to those records, they still have a lot [...]
Taking A Look At The Draft Eligible USHL Talent At WJAC On Saturday, the World Junior A Challenge kicked off in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and several USHLers are playing in the tournament. The draft eligible prospects from the USHL include: Sean Farrell – Chicago Steel – Team USA Ryder Rolston – [...]
Photo Courtesy of www.leijonat.fi Welcome back to my mid-week Prospect Ramblings. This week we will take a look at some of the draft-eligible players who may not be on your radar yet but will be as the draft year progresses. These are players who aren't in the first round conversation at the [...]
Episode 66 open with Peter doing his deep dive onto the Fantasy Hockey Prospect waiver wire and finds some more hidden gems for you to add in your dynasty league. Aarne Talvitie (NJD), Nikolay Goldobin (VAN), Lucas Elvenes (VGK), and Chase Priskie (CAR) are the players discussed. Chris Wassel @ChrisWasselDFS joins Peter to discuss USHL [...]
Episode 52 deep dives with USHL Scout Dave MacDonald as he joins the show to review the OHL Cup final, Shane Wright who is headed to the Kingston Frontenacs as the Sixth player to be granted exceptional status following John Tavares, Connor McDavid, Sean Day, Aaron Ekblad, and Joe Veleno. Dave also talks about Adam [...]
