The U.S. National Team Development Program has churned out some instant stars in the past few years, and it’s easy to forget that it can’t always be like that. Sometimes there are just regular decent players instead of elite talents. That’s the case this year, as Evan Barratt, one of the programs top centres, is…
Jesper Boqvist is a speedy, skilled player that has some evaluators divided on what his future holds. It’s not so much the ceiling that is up for debate (all seem to agree that it’s quite high), but whether he can still provide any value if he doesn’t reach it. Showing flashes of elite skill and…
Robin Salo is a two-way defencemen that played his entire 2016-17 campaign in the top Finnish league – an excellent sign. He’s also played stints there as a 17-year old and even as a 16-year old, as his calm game, high level of intelligence, and his sturdiness have allowed him to survive in the pro game…
One player’s disappointment can often be another player’s opportunity, and that was the case with Kyle Olson of the Tri-City Americans this year. Olson was the beneficiary of the season-ending injury suffered by teammate Michael Rasmussen. Not only was Olson given more ice time as a result, but he was given the opportunity to play…
I’m feeling a little bit of deja vu today, profiling Swedish prospect Lukas Elvenes after digging into Fabian Zetterlund yesterday. The two have similar statistical profiles, leading to similar projections, but as we’ll find out, they have some fundamental differences to the way they play the game. Elvenes has shown plenty of patience and creativity…
Fabian Zetterlund is a Swedish sniper who’s quite young for his draft class and has improved a lot just over the course of this season. His shot is his calling card, and he gets it off a lot, boasting impressive shot rates in each of the SHL, SuperElit and international tournaments. Zetterlund was most recently on display…
Ottawa 67’s center Austen Keating has flown under the radar for most of the 2016-17, appearing in very few lists for the upcoming draft. Digging into both statistics and scouting reports however, there doesn’t seem to be many well founded reasons for that to be the case. Between cohort data, adjusted scoring, on-ice statistics and…
We’re eight days into out countdown, and we’ve come to our final group, as after this it’ll be solo articles for the final 62 prospects – the first and second rounds. Before we get to that, let’s finish off our prospective third round.
Today’s set of rankings is the sixth of this week and our Top 100 reveal. There’s a nice mix of forwards and defencemen and players from several different leagues. Let’s dive right in.
We’re into day five of the Top 100 and dipping into the 70’s – the mid-third round if you will. We have players from all over the world in this group, including another goaltender. Let’s take a look.
It’s day four of the Nation Network Top 100, and you really aren’t coming here to see the little blurb that I write before the rankings themselves, so why don’t we just get right into it? Here are the players that we have ranked 85th down to 81st.
We’re now onto day three of the Top 100 countdown, and things are only going to ramp up through the rest of the week. Today we’ll see our first couple of goaltenders on this list, though we’ve farmed out the report to a goaltending expert on one of them. Hockey fans might want to start making mental…
