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Colin Mills

Veteran of two Hometown Hockey tours. Have worked for the NHL, London Knights and a sports agency in various capacities. Above all, student of hockey hoping to provide unique, thought provoking analysis of the game and business I love while having a little fun along the way.

Training Camp Turnover: 3 Possible Trades Before Puck Drop

Colin Mills | September 25, 2016

September is here and thus signals the start of the hockey season. The World Cup of Hockey is in full swing and rookie tournaments have begun league-wide. While the weather…

Categories Previews and Predictions, Trades Contracts and Transactions

Applicants Wanted: Top 5 PTO Candidates for the Flames

Colin Mills | August 24, 2016

Training camp is a month away and it’s time for general managers to extend professional try-outs (PTOs) to those unrestricted free agents (UFAs) that remain without a contract. This has…

Categories Calgary Flames, Free Agents

Sam Bennett Crucial to Flames Success in 2016-17

Colin Mills | July 30, 2016

The Flames off-season has been an eventful one. While they solved their goaltending problems and added a top six right-winger in Troy Brouwer, they still have some work to do…

Categories Calgary Flames

Q&A: Catching Up with Craig Conroy

Colin Mills | June 20, 2016

Craig Conroy joined the Flames management team following his retirement as a player in 2011. In 2014, he was named Assistant General Manager of the Flames when Brad Treliving took…

Categories Calgary Flames, Flames Management

Testing Treliving Telepathy: Three Trades to Improve the Flames

Colin Mills | June 7, 2016

The Stanley Cup Finals are almost complete and the off-season is right around the corner. There have already been a couple of deals  leading up to the draft on June…

Categories Calgary Flames, Flames Transactions, Trades Contracts and Transactions

Analyzing Calgary’s Cap Climate

Colin Mills | June 2, 2016

A couple of weeks ago my colleague Ryan Pike assessed the Calgary Flames upcoming free agents and what they mean to the team.  Below I attempt to supplement that with…

Categories Calgary Flames, Editor's Choice, Free Agents, Trending

Crease Crisis in Colorado Could Have Avs Goalie Shopping

Colin Mills | October 17, 2014

The slow start to the Avalanche season took a potentially disastrous turn Thursday night when both Semyon Varlamov & Reto Berra sustained injuries that could see them miss significant time.…

Categories Colorado Avalanche, Free Agents

Leaving Their Footprint: 5 Must Watch Avs At Training Camp

Colin Mills | September 14, 2014

Do you smell that? Pause, take a deep breath in and enjoy. It’s mid September, and hockey is in the air. All over North America and Europe skates are being…

Categories Colorado Avalanche, Previews and Predictions

What Does Your NHL Expansion Team Look Like?

Colin Mills | September 2, 2014

The Vancouver Province reported NHL expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle as a “done deal” early last week and the hockey world has been a buzz about the notion ever…

Categories Previews and Predictions, The Business of Hockey

Colorado Management Seeking Monster Success

Colin Mills | August 9, 2014

Val d’Or Captain Samuel Henley was 1 of 5 undrafted players signed by the Avs this off-season “We need to improve our minor league team, this is the next step…

Categories AHL, Colorado Avalanche

Avalanche Off-Season: The Good, The Bad & The …”Meh”

Colin Mills | July 17, 2014

The dust has settled on a busy few weeks of the NHL off season and the Avalanche roster has seen some notable changes. Now all that is left to do…

Categories Colorado Avalanche, Free Agents

Top 10 Compliance Buy-Out Candidates

Colin Mills | June 11, 2014

With the Stanley Cup Finals almost complete, the contract buy-out period is right around the corner. Last off season Grabovski, Lecavalier and Briere became free agents because of a new…

Categories Previews and Predictions, Trades Contracts and Transactions
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