Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** In World Juniors news, Sweden and Slovakia are the two teams to beat at the moment, with the powerhouse United States squad only a hair behind after needing overtime to [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** In honour of Kent Johnson’s excellent three-point night against the Leafs, let’s kick things off by examining his yo-yo of a season to date. Has he turned things around? Are [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Although it might seem strange for a column dedicated to highlighting the world’s best up-and-coming prospects, I am going to argue this week that fantasy managers will generally recoup more value [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** 55 games into Lukas Reichel’s NHL career, we are already seeing articles asking if his time is running out. With only six points in 21 games this year, is he [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. This week we will profile a number of top NHL prospects who are dominating professional men’s leagues in Europe. *** SHL In the SHL, Jonathan Lekkerimaki (VAN) has slowed quite a [...]
There was a full slate of games on Saturday night, so there is plenty to discuss. Let’s get right to it. - With 16 points in 17 games, Travis Sanheim is presently Philadelphia’s leading scorer. I had been totally sleeping on this breakout. So as someone posted a week ago in the forums, “is he [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Despite having scored only three points in 13 games so far, Alex Laferriere (LAK) has steadily worked his way onto my fantasy radar this year. He scored his first goal [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Now that we are about a month into the 2023-24 season and many rookies are approaching the end of their nine-game auditions, I wanted to return to the Top 25 [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** I can’t figure out where I went wrong in my assessment with Peyton Krebs (BUF). A few years ago when I zeroed in on prospects and keepers/dynasties in particular, he [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Who should probably have been taken in the first round of last year’s draft instead of the third? Hunter Brzustewicz (VAN), a right-shot offensive defender currently leading the OHL in points [...]
