Ontario Hockey League
Nick Baptiste THW Close-Up: Team: Sudbury Wolves (OHL) Birthdate: August 4, 1995 Hometown: Ottawa, ON Height: 6’1″ Weight: 200 lbs Position: Right Wing Shoots: Right Draft Eligibility: 2013 1st year eligible Twitter: @nickbaptiste THW (Midterm) Ranking: 85 Other Rankings: CSS Final Rankings (NA skaters): 61 NHL Consensus Ranking (NHL Numbers): 88 War Room Combined CSS Rankings: 84 ...
The NHL Entry Draft is little more than a month away, and as usual there is a flood of interest in 2013 mock drafts, player profiles and NHL team needs. Most of the talk centers around the consensus top prospects and big name talents. Just how good will Seth Jones be? Will Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin be franchise cornerstones? ...
The 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup gets underway this Friday in Saskatoon with the hometown Blades getting things started against the London Knights. There are plenty of interesting storylines in this year’s tournament including the amount of draft eligible talent and potentially the first three picks in this year’s NHL Entry Draft with Seth Jones, Nathan MacKinnon and ...
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.
Dakota Mermis - THW Closeup: Team: London Knights (OHL) Birthdate: January 5, 1994 Hometown: Alton, IL, USA Height: 5′ 11″ Weight: 190lbs Position: Defence Shoots: Left Twitter: @dmermis06 THW Ranking: 115 CSS Final Rankings: 95 (NA skaters) Mermis was originally drafted by the London Knights as a 12th round draft pick in 2010. The reason for going so low however, had nothing to do ...
Kerby Rychel THW Closeup: Team: Windsor Spitfires (OHL) Birthdate: October 7, 1994 Hometown: Tecumseh, Ontario Height: 6’1″ Weight: 200lbs Position: Left Wing Shoots: Left Twitter: @krychs THW Ranking: 22nd CSS Final Rankings: 17th (North American skaters) The Hockey News Ranking: 21st Kerby Rychel, like many players who have ex-NHLers for fathers can never escape the comparisons. However with Kerby and Warren, ...
When a young hockey player suits up for his first professional game there can be many things that run through his head. How will I play against grown men? Can I succeed at this level of play? Will I get enough ice time to prove myself to the higher-ups in the press box? Sarnia Sting ...
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.
For the first time in the history of the exceptional status rule, the player deemed “exceptional” will not be selected first overall after the Ottawa 67’s announced Friday afternoon that team will be selecting forward Travis Konecny with the first pick of the 2013 OHL Priority Selection Draft.
For the third time in as many years, an underage player has been granted exceptional status in the Ontario Hockey League allowing Sean Day, a standout defenseman from Detroit Compuware, to enter the OHL Priority Selection Draft a year early. Day looks to join a group of exceptional players that include John Tavares, Aaron ...
