Posts About "Draft Rankings"
Pike's Picks: 2018 NHL Draft Rankings - January Edition
January 15th, 2018 The calendar has flipped over from 2017 to 2018. Most junior teams have played in excess of 40 games, so there's a fairly large recent sample size from which to potentially judge the 2018 NHL Draft class. In addition, the annual World Junior Hockey Championship tournament has come and gone, providing a snapshot of how several top draft...
2017 NHL Draft Final Consensus Rankings
June 21st, 2017 Final 2017 Edition The hockey season is completely over and all that's left to do for the 2017 National Hockey League draft class is show up to Chicago to be selected. All the major ranking entities have nailed down their final rankings for the NHL Draft. It's time for the final 2017 NHL Draft Consensus Rankings, averaging out the...
Pike's Picks: 2017 NHL Draft Rankings (final edition)
May 7th, 2017 The spring is an interesting time in the hockey world. The Memorial Cup is around the corner. The Stanley Cup playoffs are heating up. European and college hockey is over for the year. And with the majority of the draft eligible players having played a full season, many of the ranking agencies and individuals mull over their final...
Pike's Picks: NHL Draft Alternate Rankings (January Edition)
January 8th, 2017 The 2017 World Junior Championships have come and gone and while the hockey world was abuzz about the quality of the games and the high drama of the medal round, the tournament was rather lean on high-end NHL Draft eligible talent. That's not to say that nobody from this year's draft class was on display at the tournament, but compared...
2017 NHL Draft Consensus Rankings
November 8th, 2016 November Edition We're a few months into the junior hockey season, meaning that the various players eligible for selection in the 2016 National Hockey League Entry Draft have played several games by this point. Given that most of the major prospect rankings entities have released their first rankings of the year, we've compiled the...
Pike's Picks: 2017 NHL Draft Alternate Rankings
November 1st, 2016 Almost two full months have passed in the junior hockey season, with Halloween and Canadian Thanksgiving having passed us by. Now that there are a fair number of games to analyze and examine, it's time for the latest edition of draft rankings. This is the second edition of the 2017 NHL Draft Alternate Rankings here at The Hockey...
2017 NHL Draft Preliminary Alternate Rankings - Pike's Picks
August 12th, 2016 Like sands through the hourglass, the summer has sped by and with the onset of the annual Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in Europe the 2017 NHL Draft season has begun. This is the first edition of the 2017 NHL Draft Alternate Rankings here at The Hockey Writers. Starting with these preliminary rankings and updating them roughly every...
2016 NHL Draft Final Alternate Rankings - Pike's Picks
June 10th, 2016 The 2015-16 hockey season is complete, as the London Knights triumphed in the Memorial Cup to cap things off. With everything over except for the 2016 NHL Draft, it's time to share my final rankings for the 2016 draft class. This is the fifth and final update of The Hockey Writers’ Alternate Draft Rankings for the 2015-16 hockey...
2016 NHL Draft Final Consensus Rankings
June 9th, 2016 The end of the hockey season and the approach of the annual National Hockey League draft sees a drastic uptick in mock drafts and draft rankings from all around the hockey world. In an effort to provide some structure to all of the rankings noise, we have curated the final edition of the Consensus Rankings for the 2016 NHL Draft. The...
2016 NHL Draft April Alternate Rankings - Pike's Picks
April 18th, 2016 The regular seasons for all of the major North American and international leagues are over, and they're all well into their playoff schedules. The Under-18 World Championships are underway and the World Hockey Championship is just around the corner (as is the Memorial Cup). With so much hockey completed, here's the latest update of The...
2016 NHL Draft Midterm Consensus Rankings
January 29th, 2016 We're into the meat of the 2015-16 hockey season and as we get closer to the 2016 National Hockey League Draft; rankings are being produced with increasing frequency. In an effort to clarify what consensus, if any, exists between the most prominent draft rankings, we have collected five of them and produced the 2016 Midterm Consensus...
2016 NHL Draft January Alternate Rankings - Pike's Picks
January 23rd, 2016 The 2016 World Junior Hockey Championship is complete and the annual Canadian Hockey League Top Prospects Game is just about here, so it's time for the latest edition of the Alternate Draft Rankings. This is the third update of The Hockey Writers' Alternate Draft rankings for the 2015-16 hockey season. Developed as a complementary...
Top Group Expands In November Central Scouting List
December 7th, 2015 The National Hockey League's Central Scouting Service has released the November edition of its annual watch list, identifying and classifying the top few hundred prospects for the upcoming 2016 NHL Draft. The most noteworthy find within the watch list is the expansion of its "A"-level group - the prospects considered potential first...
