Guest post by Eldon MacDonald This is the third of four posts on the top 120 prospects – the NHL 2013 Draft Rankings – War Room Edition. Round 3 (Prospects ranked 61-90) Round 4 (Prospects ranked 91-120) Gangs of New Jersey (2013 NHL Draft Host) Here are some of the major groupings for round two (31 ...
Guest post by Eldon MacDonald This is the second of four posts on the top 120 prospects – the NHL 2013 Draft Rankings – War Room Edition. Gangs of New Jersey (2013 NHL Draft Host) Here are some of the major groupings for round three (61 to 90): 1. The Second Round Crowd: The players with the greatest ...
Guest post by Eldon MacDonald This is the first of four posts on the top 120 prospects – the NHL 2013 Draft Rankings – War Room Edition. Gangs of Newark – Intriguing Groupings of Prospects in this Part 1. The Old Folks Crowd: (players passed over in at least one draft) – some talented players in ...
This is the first edition of THW’s 2013 NHL Mock Draft – The Next Ones Winter Edition. Every year it seems I contemplate whether or not to go through the intriguing yet dubious task of putting together a mock draft. We all know how fascinating it is to go through the process of formulating which team ...
As I noted in The Next Ones 2013 NHL Draft Midterm Rankings, “The Jonathan Drouin Bandwagon is more like a German Transrapid TR-09 high speed train.” Drouin is quickly becoming The Human Hockey Highlight Film, seemingly adding to his portfolio every time he hits the ice. He is cementing the case for me, for having him ranked number ...
The most notable change in The Next Ones 2013 NHL Draft Midterm Rankings is a changing of the guard at the number one slot. On many rankings released in January, this comes as no surprise as Seth Jones has toppled Nate MacKinnon on many lists. In what The Next Ones now views as more of ...
Guest post by Eldon MacDonald If you are like me, you are always slightly annoyed when NHL Central Scouting puts one four separate rankings for one draft. Thus, each year I take on the cumbersome task of combining the lists. It takes about an hour to combine the lists, but two days to add the ...
Guest post by Eldon MacDonald This is the last of two posts updating the rankings of the top 60 prospects for the 2013 NHL draft. *** Compare to December’s Top 90 NHL Draft War Room Rankings with live updated stats, unique prospect nicknames and commentary. *** Some things to note when looking at this list: Entrances into ...
Guest post by Eldon MacDonald This is the first of two posts updating the rankings of the top 60 prospects for the 2013 NHL draft. *** Compare to December’s Top 90 NHL Draft War Room Rankings with live updated stats, unique prospect nicknames and commentary. *** Some things to note when looking at this list: The ...
Given he has just come off one of his better performances internationally in a bronze-medal winning game over Canada at the 2013 World Juniors, it may seem preposterous that someone would even broach the subject of the Edmonton Oilers trading Nail Yakupov. He is also one of the leading candidates to bring home this season’s ...
