Here we are in late January, and the Vancouver Canucks are entering the NHL All-Star break tied for eighth place in the West (tiebreakers be damned), and who can honestly say that they saw this coming? Certainly not those negative nellies at CanucksArmy, that’s for sure! And sure, the Canucks are getting all sorts of…
Happy new year! Welcome to 2019 ladies and gentlemen. I recently published another edition of our consolidated industry draft rankings, but we are now officially in the same calendar year as the next NHL draft and I have yet to publish any personal rankings for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft. Well that changes today. What…
The World Juniors have arrived, and always renews interest in NHL prospects. While most of the players to watch at the under-20 championships are already affiliated with NHL teams, there are a handful of draft eligible players looking to make their mark as well. It’s been nearly two months since I last published a consolidated…
So the Canucks season is going much better to this point than a lot of us anticipated, but that doesn’t mean that we’re going to be any less focused on the 2019 NHL Entry Draft – there’s a whole first round to consider after all. There have been plenty of new lists released since the…
I’m a couple of days later with this week’s calendar, but there isn’t a whole to miss early in the week to be perfectly honest. The AHL and CHL are mostly weekend leagues, and while the European teams have more of an NHL-like schedule (every two or three days, few if any back-to-backs), the European…
In the season premiere of the CanucksArmy Roundtable, we discussed a happy topic, pondering the production of Canucks wunderkind Elias Pettersson. Well, Pettersson is on the sidelines, along with many of the team’s other high-minute players, and we’re left to debate less bright and sunny topics. Those injuries did allow Michael Del Zotto back into…
Cohort models that measure likelihoods of prospect success by passing certain thresholds of NHL games played have been around for years, and have been demonstrated to be statistically predictive. Yet they face criticism because they appear to determine success only at a binary level – either the player reaches the threshold or they don’t. They…
Good afternoon Canucks fans. I’m back with another edition of the Complete Canucks Calendar after missing last week. It’s not that nothing was going on, but I have limited time to begin with and occasionally I delve into fits of research and development. In this case, I made some new strides in prospect analysis, which…
EP, Dekey Pete, the Alien, whatever you prefer to call him, Elias Pettersson has had a phenomenal start to his NHL career. With seven points in his first four games, Pettersson is outpacing some rather notable Swedish names to start his career. Source: Sportsnet Broadcast It would be pretty greedy to expect this rate of…
At the beginning of each of the last couple of seasons, I have thrown together a list of prospects that could make their NHL debuts in that campaign, along with my estimation at the likelihood of those debuts coming to fruition. In the 2016-17 season, four of the eight players I listed (Anton Rodin, Troy…
Happy thanksgiving everyone, or, as Charles Boyle would say, Happy Turkey Day! What better way to enjoy your day off than to check up on the week to come for the Canucks and their various prospects and affiliates? Your favorite comprehensive Canucks calendar is back for another week, so load up on those leftovers and…
Good morning and welcome back to hockey season! The Vancouver Canucks are just a day away from opening their 2018-19 season, and the Utica Comets are three days away from doing the same. Elsewhere, plenty of other leagues are already well underway, particularly the European leagues, which always have a good headstart on their North…
