Posts About "Undrafted"
Great 8: The Best Undrafted Free Agents In Minnesota Wild History
May 29th, 2014 While there is an impressive list of great NHLers who went undrafted, players like Curtis Joseph, Ed Belfour, Dino Ciccarelli, Antti Niemi, and Adam Oates are the exception rather than even a vague semblance of a rule. Yet, they prove that every now and then a team catches undrafted lightning in a bottle. In their short history, the...
Erik Gustafsson All But Gone? Flyers Sign Gostisbehere
April 15th, 2014 In four seasons with the Flyers, Erik Gustafsson has never played a full 82-game schedule. Throughout that time, the 25-year-old defenseman has bounced back and forth between the AHL and NHL, providing the Flyers with depth on the blue line when needed. But with the signing of Shayne Gostisbehere, Gustafsson's services may no longer be...
Meet Mike Halmo, the Unlikely Islander
March 4th, 2014 Islanders fans were understandably upset following the injuries to John Tavares and Frans Nielsen. Many people expected the team to call up Ryan Strome and Anders Lee, but when Mike Halmo also joined the group, there was a collective "huh?" from many fans. So, let's look and see. Who exactly is Mike Halmo? Junior Career Mike Halmo...
Rob Klinkhammer: The Unlikely NHLer
January 23rd, 2014 Every year, countless thousands of young hockey players work insanely hard in the hopes of getting drafted into the National Hockey League. Every year, only about 200 of these young men get drafted. And so, many of those not drafted give up their NHL dreams and go on to do other things. Rob Klinkhammer is one individual who...
Dan Girardi: The New York Rangers' Unsung Hero
February 13th, 2013 Underrated, overshadowed, under-appreciated. It's hard to imagine that those three words can be associated with a player who was an all-star, a top pair defenseman, and an alternate captain (for half of the season) for one of the NHL's best teams in 2011-12. Yet that is the case for the New York Rangers' Dan Girardi. Because on a...
Top 10 Undrafted NHL Players in 2013
February 5th, 2013 While draft day is always exciting for the best young players in the world and their families, some of them always seem to slip through the cracks and elude the best NHL scouts. As a result, there have been scores of diamonds in the rough who never heard their name called on any given draft day. These players can be late-bloomers,...