Posts About "Ontario Hockey League"
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...
The OHL Summer Series: A Preview to the Previews
June 30th, 2016 With the 2016 NHL Entry Draft here and gone, we now focus our attention to the new crop of prospects that hope to impact their teams enough to get drafted in the upcoming Nolan Patrick Draft next June in Chicago. This past weekend 211 childhood dreams were answered by being selected in the NHL Entry Draft. Of those drafted, a...Capitals Make Right Call in Keeping Tom Wilson
The Washington Capitals have elected to keep 19-year-old rookie right wing Tom Wilson past the 10-game mark, meaning this season will count against his entry-level contract. In doing so, General Manager George McPhee and Head Coach Adam Oates have chosen to develop the rugged and skilled Toronto-born forward on the big club instead...
College Hockey: Tallying up the College Hockey Outdoor Games
September 13th, 2013 One of the hot topics of discussion this past summer has been the enormous number of outdoor hockey games that hockey is about to embark on this winter. If we didn't have enough outdoor games in the NHL already with six outdoor games scheduled, we also have 13 college hockey outdoor games scheduled as well. But that’s not all of...
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...
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...
Alex Galchenyuk Primed for World Junior Dominance
December 16th, 2012 Just a few miles from the US-Canada border, Montreal Canadiens’ prospect Alex Galchenyuk, an American slated to star for Team USA in the upcoming 2013 World Junior Hockey Championships in Ufa, Russia, entered the Christmas break on an absolute tear after recording five goals and eight points in his two weekend games. In a 7-4...
Thomas Welsh Signs with the Mississauga Steelheads of the OHL
December 1st, 2012 It's official! Thomas Welsh has signed with the Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League. It's been a long time coming for the 16-year old. Welsh was originally drafted by the Sarnia Sting in the 5th round, but after agreements on a contract could not be made, Welsh decided to come to the States to play prep school...The Kingston Frontenacs' Bright Future
The Kingston Frontenacs are a very young team full of high draft picks. With high draft picks come high expectations, and so far the promising young players are delivering. The rebuilding Frontenacs may have turned the corner - or are on the cusp of doing so - as General Manager Doug Gilmour has his blueprint executing in its...
2012-13 OHL Predictions - Part II: Eastern Conference
September 17th, 2012 Despite several key players departing in Colin Behenna, Ivan Telegin and potentially Tanner Pearson, Dale Hawerchuk’s Barrie Colts look to remain competitive with several key new additions...
2012-13 OHL Predictions – Part I: Western Conference
September 10th, 2012 As the Ontario Hockey League prepares to open its 38th season, Commissioner David Branch and the twenty competitive teams realize the opportunity for increased marketability and competiveness with an increasing likelihood of the National Hockey League entering another lockout. It has been a rather busy and frustrating summer...
