Zach Fucale isn’t the Halifax Mooseheads’ star player.
But really, no one else is, either. It’s not because Fucale isn’t good enough to be the star; it’s more about Fucale being one of three elite players on Halifax’s roster. And one who’ll probably be gone by the time the first round of the NHL draft concludes.
Nikita Zadorov isn’t who London Knights fans imagined when hearing their team had drafted a Russian defenseman in the first round of the 2012 CHL Import Draft.
A silky-smooth, offensive-minded, 5-foot-10 blueliner was pictured by many. Instead, Knights supporters found themselves looking at a 6-foot-5, 230-pound mammoth.
Troy Josephs’s name doesn’t often come up first when discussing Ontario Junior Hockey League prospects for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft. Typically, teammate Matt Buckles receives the most attention in that department.
But that doesn’t mean Josephs is far behind.
With just a few games left in the Ottawa Senators’ regular season, fans are suddenly confident their team has what it takes to make playoff noise. How did this happen?
Pavel Datsyuk is one of the greatest two-way forwards the National Hockey League has ever had.
And this is someone who was selected 171st overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft.
When the Erie Otters announced Dylan Strome’s name as the second overall pick in the 2013 OHL Priority Selection, it marked a new arrival in hockey’s family of brothers.
A 6-foot-2, 165 pound forward, Strome played his minor midget season with the Toronto Marlboros.
Jarome Iginla has been through more than few ups and downs in his career.
From Olympic gold medals to crushing Stanley Cup defeat to captaining a basement-dwelling team, Iginla has been through his fair share of highs and lows.
A long-awaited decision has come to its close. Free agent defenseman Danny DeKeyser has signed with the Detroit Red Wings.
The Western Michigan University star will be joining his hometown team after a long process that was very similar to the one current Edmonton Oilers blueliner Justin Schultz went through in the summer.
The name “Seth Jones” and the word “tank” have been used in the same sentence a lot lately. In some ways it’s a compliment regarding Jones’s physical strength; in many other ways it’s just referring to teams selling at the trade deadline with the hopes of “[writing off the rest of this season and "[engineering]” my team the best way possible to get the first pick.”
Welcome to the life of the league’s basement dwellers. And welcome to the dilemma they’re to be facing with a potential first overall pick.
Chris Kunitz didn’t see this one coming. Neither did anyone else. And yet, here we are: an undrafted player from Ferris State University is lighting the lamp as a winger playing on the same line as the world’s most talented hockey player.
In a similar fashion, Pascal Dupuis has quietly emerged as a reliable part of the National Hockey League’s best offense.
