Posts About "OHL Priority Selection"
OHL Priority Selection Process
April 6th, 2018 The Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection is an annual online player draft featuring the future of Major-Junior hockey. Draft-eligible players wait anxiously all season long for this one big day. How exactly does a player prepare for draft day? How do teams prepare? What happens once a team selects a player? How long before these guys...
OHL Priority Selection Draft 2018 – Top 10 Can’t-Miss Prospects
April 5th, 2018 The 2018 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection draft will be underway as of 9:00 A.M. (EST), Saturday, Apr. 7. The early rounds will be featured in the annual OHL draft show, while the later rounds unfold via a live board on the league website. Over the course of a few hours and fifteen rounds of selection, the twenty teams which...
Best Online Resources for OHL Fans
October 18th, 2017 Whatever it is that draws you in—goals galore, the opportunity to watch the NHL’s future stars develop, the luxury of having a team right in your backyard—junior hockey fandom is thrilling. Yet, following a smaller league like the OHL also has its drawbacks. It doesn’t get the same media coverage as the professional leagues in...
Erie Otters' Dylan Strome Next in Elite Hockey Family
April 6th, 2013 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.
Travis Konecny Selected 1st Overall, Day Waits Another Day
April 5th, 2013 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.
The Future of Hockey: 2013 OHL Mock Draft
April 4th, 2013 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...
Inside the Scout’s Notebook: 2013 OHL Cup (Part III)
March 25th, 2013 The final edition (part III) of Inside the Scout’s Notebook: 2013 OHL Cup will break down the standout players from the remaining seven teams of the OHL Cup featuring the always-powerful Toronto Marlboros, competitive York Simcoe Express, OHL Commissioner David Branch’s Whitby Wildcats and eventually, the 2013 OHL Cup Champions,...
Inside the Scout's Notebook: 2013 OHL Cup (Part II)
March 22nd, 2013 The OHL Cup, scheduled each year to showcase the upcoming talent for the draft, has produced some impressive hockey players for the Ontario Hockey League, including Steven Stamkos, John Tavares and Max Domi. Earlier this week in Part I of a three part series, I identified the standout performances from players from six teams including...
Sean Day - Exceptional Status Granted: A Truly Special ‘Day’
March 20th, 2013 For the third time in as many years, Hockey Canada has granted an underage player “exceptional status” naming Canadian defenseman Sean Day eligible for the Ontario Hockey League’s 2013 Priority Selection Draft scheduled to take place Saturday, April 6th. Sean Day has learned unofficially that he will be become the fourth player...
Inside the Scout’s Notebook: 2013 OHL Cup (Part I)
March 19th, 2013 After six hockey-filled days at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, OHL scouts and fans can walk away satisfied following several eye-opening performances and countless thrilling games between twenty of the top minor midget teams in Ontario and including several all-star teams from the USA. The Oakville Rangers persevered...
2012 NHL Entry Draft Guide – The Next Ones
June 18th, 2012 Consider this your live home page for information for the 2012 NHL entry draft. Bookmark and check back often as it will be constantly updated leading up to hockey's version of Christmas. THW's 2012 NHL Entry Draft Guide - The Next Ones is your quintessential draft resource featuring: Detailed unique...
A Letter to OHL Commissioner David Branch
May 4th, 2012 Dear David Branch, The OHL championship final series between the London Knights and the Niagara IceDogs has begun and I feel that this is the best time to approach you with some grievances I have had, especially in the last few years. I follow your league quite religiously, as well as follow the Canadian Hockey...
