Posts About "Nick Suzuki"
Catching up with the Golden Knights Top Prospects
January 12th, 2018 The Vegas Golden Knights are sailing smoothly into the second half of their inaugral season with a 29-10-2 record, which puts them atop of the Pacific Division. Please do not adjust your computer screen, that is correct -- the Golden Knights are the top seed in the Western Conference playoff hunt after 41 games played. And, all the...
2017 Draft Picks Having the Best Seasons
November 30th, 2017 With only Nico Hischier having an impact in the NHL, the 2017 draft hasn't matched the levels of immediate production of past drafts. As a class, they have combined for 60 games and 28 points in the NHL. By comparison, the 2016 class combined for 344 games and 213 points last season. Despite the lack of immediate impact in the NHL, this...
Golden Knights' Suzuki Tearing Up OHL
October 16th, 2017 The Vegas Golden Knights' second-ever draft pick came at 13th overall in the 2017 NHL Draft, where they selected Nick Suzuki of the OHL's Owen Sound Attack. The pick looked like a smart one for a number of reasons, as Suzuki was coming off of a 45-goal, 96-point campaign despite being one of the draft's youngest prospects. The...Golden Knights Building Foundation with Centers
October 1st, 2017 Learning from those before us is an ideal way to avoid mistakes. The Vegas Golden Knights should learn from the Atlanta Thrashers and Columbus Blue Jackets who struggled at the draft table. Atlanta could never overcome their poor showings at the draft and were eventually relocated. Columbus, on the other hand, drafted few promising...
Vegas 2017 Draftees Not Ready for NHL
August 23rd, 2017 It’s starting to look a lot like hockey season! Rookie camps are on the horizon in the National Hockey League and the likes of Nico Hischier and Nolan Patrick are poised to make their respective team for this coming season. But what about the NHL’s newest franchise? An excellent article by The Hockey Writers' Brian Wiebe outlines why...
OHL Team Anagrams (Part 2) – Amalgam Art Shone!
July 23rd, 2017 This is the second in a two-part series of articles in which I've attempted to devise an appropriate anagram—a word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters in another, such as DIRTY ROOM from DORMITORY—for each team in the OHL. Yesterday’s article looked at the Eastern Conference teams; today I’ll tackle the...