Competition committee’s recommendations, Soderberg to get the Leino treatment, MSL should retire; and more…

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I’ll kick things off just by letting you know that yesterday I stuck in another update to the Fantasy Prospects Report, just simply re-download your document and you’ll have the updated one. (buy it here). This update includes Brendan’s Top 60 chart (2015 draft) and Brendan’s Top 50 chart (the one that kicks the FPR off, side – by – side with my own Top 50 as well as the consensus).

The final update is in a few days – I generally try to wait for the NHL draft order to be finalized (i.e. a Cup win) but often can’t because it runs so late into the month – and will include the finalized Mock Draft from Brendan Ross, as well as a couple of new profiles. I’m taking requests for profiles here, if you find that a player you wanted to see isn’t in there.

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The NHL’s competition committee has some more recommendations for the board. The first is to make goalie equipment smaller. I like this quote from Elliotte Friedman’s quote here:

“The idea is to prevent gear that is more about blocking than it is about protection.”

This is going to be a long, drawn-out process. In my opinion, the goalie equipment will be reduced four or five times over the next 20 years before it starts looking a little more normal (i.e. a goaltender in the 80s). Because goalies will fight this every step of the way. But really, if Kevlar vests can stop bullets, can’t we slap on Kevlar shin pads (etc)?

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