Nothing says mid-November like discussing the limitation dates of exclusive contractual negotiating rights for drafted NCAA hockey prospects. Right? Actually, now that I think about it, that doesn’t make any sense, but here I am publishing my second article of the day on the topic, following this piece on Jack Rathbone this morning. For his…
Jack Rathbone has always been a tricky player to get a handle on. When the Massachusetts-native was taken 95th overall by the Canucks in 2017, we didn’t have a lot to go on in terms of analysis. Rathbone has played the majority of his draft season in the US High School circuit, which creates issues…
It has been a turbulent week in hockey to say the least. Last Monday’s dismissal of Don Cherry following his comments on the November 9th edition of Coach’s Corner has sparked a massive debate that, despite the insistence by many that hockey unites Canadians, has instead shown just how divisive it can be. I’m not…
It’s been quite a while since I last released a consolidated industry rankings in this space, and I apologize for that – I’ve been a bit preoccupied setting up a new prospect-driven entity over at NextGen Hockey. I toyed with the idea of publishing consolidated rankings over there. I would leave them unlocked of course;…
The struggles of the Comets rookies this season have been well documented. Two in particular that have drawn attention are Kole Lind and Jonah Gadjovich, selected by the Canucks in the second round of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, at 33rd and 55th, respectively. Lind went on to have a fantastic draft-plus-one WHL season with…
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…
