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I write about hockey, specifically prospects and the NHL Draft. Write for draftgeek.ca and thepuckauthority.com
Tweet One of the most compelling parts of following the draft is identifying overrated and underrated players, and digging into why they may be viewed that way relative to their true potential. Overrated players can be overvalued for a multitude of reasons, the seemingly most common ones being size, physicality, and intangibles, all of ...
Tweet The list of defencemen that have suited up in 20+ games in the Liiga in their draft-minus-one season is a short one- intact it is only four players long. One half of that group are/were 40 point NHL defencemen; the other half is made up of Anttoni Honka and Urho Vaakanainen, a top prospect ...
Tweet One of the fastest rising prospects available in the 2019 NHL Draft, Brink has gone from virtually unknown to a potential first round pick in just a few months. Playing for the Sioux City Musketeers of the USHL, Brink has tallied 33 points through 19 games.
Tweet Philip Broberg's excellence at the recent Hlinka-Gretzky Cup has him flying up draft boards, proven by his placement of 3rd overall in Craig Button's Top 5. The left-shot defenceman totaled three goals and one assist through five games, and went on numerous end-to-end rushes. Broberg was one of the top defencemen at the ...
In the initial segment of this series, we looked at the USNTDP draft-eligibles using a metric called Age Adjusted PPG. This particular metric allows us to remove potential age effects on production. In part two, we'll do the same, but the focus is now on the Western Hockey League.
The big day passed a few weeks ago now, meaning that it's time to turn our attention to the next date emphatically quintuple-circled on our calendars: the 2019 edition of the NHL Entry Draft (the Ivan Hlinka, start of the season, and World Juniors only merit two, three, and four circles, respectively).
One thing that draft analysts do - other than ranking the prospects up for the draft - is determining where the dropoffs in talent in a particular draft class are. For the 2018 class, the first major drop is widely considered to be after the 9th selection.
Q: Which team will extract the most value from their late first or early second round pick? A: Whichever team selects Jonatan Berggren. Seriously. With Berggren, there is a huge disagreement between actual talent and perceived skill. Despite having the skill level of a top 15 pick, Berggren is typically situated in the late first...
Every year, there's one draft-eligible prospect that enters the season as the projected first overall pick in the draft that will occur the following June. Most of the time, that prospect stays on course and actually ends up being the first overall pick. On less frequent occasions, that player is overtaken, like what happened in...
It's June, and the draft is less than 20 days away now. A steady stream of draft rankings have been released. Now, it's my turn. These are my personal rankings, not a mock draft. In terms of the eye test, I view skating and hockey IQ as very important, and my rankings will reflect that....