He’s been on everyone’s radar since the beginning of the season. He’s a big body on the back end, an intelligent puck mover, a boy amongst men, and one of the most talented defensemen in this year’s draft class. His name: Rasmus Ristolainen. Rasmus Ristolainen THW Close-Up: Date of birth: 10/27/1994 Place of birth: Turku, ...
Nail Yakupov THW Close-Up:
Nail Yakupov. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Taylor Hall. John Tavares. Steven Stamkos.
Detailed hockey analytics are not required to decipher the connection between the above five hockey players.
No matter how hockey media and the experts tried to convince hockey fans, there was ultimately no doubt as to who would get drafted first overall in the past four drafts. Nail Yakupov looks to make it five years running that this trend continues.
Originally from Livingston, New Jersey, Nick Ebert has taken his game to a whole new level in the last few years. Ebert was playing in the USHL with the Waterloo Black Hawks at the age of 15, a remarkable feat, and now he’s taken his talents north to the OHL, playing his first season with ...
Christopher Ralph is a hockey writer with a focus on prospects and the entry draft, as well as the Leafs’ correspondent here at THW. In grading which scouting service and/or ranking system made the best predictions or was most accurate in terms of how the NHL 2009 entry draft went down, there are many limitations. ...
