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. *** Now that the regular seasons have concluded for the three leagues in the Canadian Hockey League (WHL, OHL, QMJHL), we can officially crown the WHL’s Jagger Firkus (SEA) the CHL [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Picking up where we left off last week, we will finish revisiting the star potential of the 2023 draft class (top 30) using the Hockey Prospecting model. Even though it [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Sometimes results from statistical models like Hockey Prospecting can be baffling. How could Mikhail Gulyayev have a higher star potential than Adam Fantilli at the draft last year after Fantilli’s [...]

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 case you missed it, check out Part One (AHL & KHL), Part Two (SHL & Liiga), and Part Three (NCAA) of this mini-series. The main prospects featured so far [...]

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 case you missed it, check out Part One (AHL & KHL) and Part Two (SHL & Liiga) of this mini-series. *** Goals are always at a premium in fantasy. [...]

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 case you missed it, check out Part One of this series here. *** Goals are always at a premium in fantasy. They are harder to obtain than assists 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. *** Goals are at a premium in fantasy. They are harder to obtain than assists and are given an extra value boost in many formats. When it comes to prospects, players [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Dallas prospects Logan Stankoven and Mavrik Bourque have taken the American Hockey League by storm this year. They have been the top two AHL scorers for a while now, nearly [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Given that the analytics wars have seemingly reignited over Juraj Slafkovsky experiencing a spike in his development trajectory, I’d like to reluctantly weigh in. The whole “debate” boils down 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. *** Something that caught my eye recently was league equivalency work being developed by EP Rinkside’s Chace McCallum. He posted the following chart, which shows the top 20 highest league-adjusted scoring [...]