At the 2009 NHL Entry Draft held on June 26th you will, without some unforeseen surprise, hear one of two names called first. One of those, John Tavares, has been heralded as a future superstar for four years now. However, there is another player from across the Atlantic that is getting a lot of consideration for that ...
Moving away from the theme of my last few posts in this segment, disappointing draft picks, I have chosen a goaltender who was not a widely known draft pick, who burst onto the scene in the NHL later in his career and who had several solid to great seasons in the NHL. Then all of a sudden he ...
As the Philadelphia Flyersheaded into the 2009 NHL playoffs, most around the league, the fans and the media were focused on the teams four 30 goal scorers andsix 20 goal scorers. Chances are none were too focused on the 5’11″ 172 pound rookie that played only half the season in the NHL, Claude Giroux. Giroux, a native ...
Considered by many to be the most talented player and most likely first overall pick in the upcoming 2009 NHL Entry Draft, John Tavares has been touted as a future superstar now for several years. Born September 20, 1990 in Mississauga, Ontario, Tavares missed the cutoff date for eligibility in the 2008 Entry Draft by ...
A Rick Nash Biography A successful goal scorer at every level, in just his second season in the NHL, Rick Nash tied Jerome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk for the Rocket Richard Trophy as the league’s leading scorer with 41 goals. Who would have thought it would be another 5 seasons before he would taste playoff ...
With all the recent controversy over his latest goal celebration (completely unnecessary if you ask me but that is another article) I decided it was time to write about Mr. Alex Ovechkin. If there has been a more “exciting” player in hockey in the last 20 years, I am not sure who it could possibly ...
Pavel Brendl is another in a long line of top draft picks that dominated junior and international competition but failed to make even a small impact in the NHL. Brendl was drafted 4th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, but would actually never play a professional game with the ...
Take a look at our growing Index of Hockey Biographies Recently, I received a couple requests to cover certain players on my “What Happened to…” segment, Eric Daze being one of those requested. Let me start by saying, Eric Daze must have become a Jason Bourne like super spy, cause there is not much information ...
Sidney Crosby Biography Love him or hate him (as a Flyer’s fan I lean towards the later), and even though he might not even be the best player on his own team, Sidney Crosby has been anointed the new face of the NHL since he was drafted in 2005. It was an unusual draft year ...
Take a look at our growing Index of Hockey Biographies My first subject of this feature was Alexandre Daigle, who went on to have a very disappointing career for a #1 overall pick in the entry draft. However, there have been worse, and one of them is Patrik Stefan. Patrik Stefan began his professional ...
