The Journey

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** The moment we've been eagerly waiting for is almost here—the NHL 2024 Draft is just around the corner. With the excitement building, I thought it would be a great time to dive [...]

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’ll be taking over this column from Ben Gehrels who has left me with very big shoes to fill! Follow him on X at @beegare for a steady stream of high-level prospect analysis and [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** If you do not yet have a copy of Dobber’s 2023 Fantasy Prospect Report, do yourself a favour and go get one now. Like the Elite Prospects 2024 Draft Guide, [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** As a quick preface, this week’s article builds off a piece I wrote back in December arguing that you should always consider trading first-round farm picks because of reduced timelines [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Inspired by Thomas Harley’s incredible break out campaign in 2023-24—more on that in a moment—this will be the first in a series highlighting young players (under 24) around the league [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Inspired by Thomas Harley’s incredible break out campaign in 2023-24, this is the second instalment in a series highlighting young players (under 24) around the league who made a significant [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Inspired by Thomas Harley’s incredible break out campaign in 2023-24—more on that in a moment—this will be the first in a series highlighting young players (under 24) around the league [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Having recently scanned the U23 players excelling in the first round of the NHL playoffs, let’s turn our attention this week to the playoff action in Canada’s top three junior leagues. [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Zooming in on players aged 25 and younger, here is the breakdown of Top 100 playoff scorers so far by year drafted: 2022: None 2021: None 2020: Quinton Byfield, Alexis [...]

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 the regular season has concluded and we are all waiting impatiently for playoff hockey to begin, it is time to revisit my Calder Trophy predictions from back in [...]