Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
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The atmosphere in rinks around the globe are beginning to intensify as draft eligible players start out on their journey to realize their dreams of being selected by an NHL franchise next June in New Jersey. Leagues filled with draft prospects are already over one-quarter of the way through the season and scouts are expanding ...
The Halifax Mooseheads keep scoring goals and winning games. After 16 games, the team from Nova-Scotia is boasting an incredible 15-1 record along with a +44 goal differential (85 GFs and 41 GAs). This impressive record ranks them first overall in the QMJHL with 30 points and second overall in the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) ...
Ryan Kujawinski is in his NHL draft year, and sophomore season in the OHL with the Kingston Frontenacs. He was the fourth overall selection in the 2011 OHL Priority draft by the Sarnia Sting, but later traded to Kingston in exchange for top prospect Ryan Spooner. This could be his coming out season. Kujawinski’s ...
The 2005 Canadian Under-20 World Junior team was dubbed the “best world junior team ever assembled” as Hockey Canada had the opportunity to handpick the nation’s best junior eligible players because of the NHL lockout. Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Corey Perry, Mike Richards, Patrice Bergeron, Jeff Carter, Shea Weber, Dion Phaneuf and Brent Seabrook were ...
It seems almost stereotypical to think of how many young hockey players, several of them from small towns, get their starts on frozen ponds or rivers, hoping to make their dreams of going to the NHL come true. The hope that all of those fun skates with friends and family members could amount to something ...
Ryan Murray has a lot of support and talent on his side. But can he take it all and translate it into an immediate impact in Columbus?
Year after year, intelligent hockey minds search the globe for the next generation of hockey stars ready to fulfill their childhood dreams of playing in the National Hockey League. Clichés are thrown around constantly when analyzing the future stars. Each season, we can predictably expect to hear experts claim that this year’s draft class ...
When a star prospect is chosen first overall in the NHL Entry Draft, high expectations immediately follow; it comes with the territory. Nail Yakupov received the right to that pressure this past June, and he’ll be holding on to it all season long.
For average hockey fans, the most exposure to Icelandic junior hockey they have is from the 1994 Disney movie D2: The Mighty Ducks, in which the title team faces a team from the small island nation at the Junior Goodwill Games. The climax of the film has the Ducks, the tournament’s American representative, in a ...
Russia versus Canada has become a rival hockey matchup that guarantees a thrilling competition filled with tremendous passion and talent. As mentioned in my previous article Canada, Russia Rivalry Remains Strong, the Canada-Russia Challenge was put in place to honour the historic 1972 Summit Series that left its mark in hockey’s history books and continues ...
