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This post is a continuation for a similar ranking I posted nearly five years ago. Back then, I went through all the significant pending UFAs that were acquired at the trade deadlines between 2015 and 2018, and evaluated whether the rental acquisitions were good or bad. The 15 trades that I went...
It is June 2023 and by all accounts the Habs continue to rebuild.
What is a rebuild? What are the dimensions of a rebuild? How long do they last, what is the desired outcome, what can we expect to see happen? It’s all a bit unclear sometimes but let’s try to clear it up a bit and see what we...
1. Connor Bedard (C) Regina Pats, WHL
This is the Connor Bedard draft. He will be one of the most talented kids to ever be selected into the NHL, and it's not just the Canadian hype machine - Bedard has time and time again proven that he is just too good for his current level of play. He...
If you want to learn more about the obstacles the Winnipeg Falcons overcame, check out my self-published book “A Confluence of Destines” on Amazon here.
On April 16th, 1920, the Winnipeg Falcons - now Team Canada - arrived in Antwerp in advance of the first ever Ice Hockey Olympic tournament...
I have been fascinated by the story of the Kenora Thistles -- the team from the smallest town ever to win the Stanley Cup -- since I was 10 years old. At the holidays in 1973, my parents got my brothers and me a set of miniature replica NHL trophies. The Stanley Cup was engraved with the names...
Let’s talk about Mark Stone. He’s best known as a playmaking two-way forward, but his game looks a bit different this season. He's more of a shooter and net-front presence than a pure passer, which is reflected in his shot and scoring chance rates increasing across the board.
The change is...
Well we put it all to a vote and came up with this list. Not as many votes as last years offseason predictions of the 2022 Cup favourites, which btw we did excellent on predicting the top two teams being the Aves and Lightening. Heres the list, how did we do???
1 Colorado 65% 2023 HFBoards...
Most sports team owners make their money elsewhere and purchase a team as an extravagant hobby—but that is not the story of Ed Snider. One of the few owners in history to get control of a franchise by mortgaging nearly everything to his name, the longtime Philadelphia Flyers chairman would go on...
Total Bruins – A game by game illustrated account of the Boston Bruins 1929-39
Available on eBay
Overview
The definitive history of the Boston Bruins in the 1930's. Self-published, 8.5"x11" soft cover, 526 pages (4 colour), 1000+ images. Basic format is paragraph of text with an embedded image...
It was September of 1972. I was only eight years old — wouldn’t turn nine until late October — and in grade four at Snowcrest Public School. (That’s fourth grade, for those of you who speak American.) I started playing hockey that year too, although I wasn’t very good yet.
There’s actually...
Montreal 1972. Faced with the decision how to line up against the Soviet Union in Game 1 of the upcoming Summit Series, Team Canada head coach Harry Sinden decides to go with four forward lines and two defensive pairings (plus one spare). His reasoning: Constant Canadian attacks with four lines...
(Haven’t posted anything for a bit, but I never like to let too long go by. So, here a few childhood sports memories. Some a little bitter; some sweet. It's not very hockey, so sue me if you want your money back!)
Joe Theismann hobbled towards me on crutches, his right ankle encased in a cast...
Women’s ice hockey had already been around for some time, in one form or another, during the earlier years of the sport’s organized infancy. But during the World War I window in the late 1910s, women’s hockey came to experience an increased boost in popularity.
This popularity boost was partly...
This story is just some flat out, plain old, personal promotion for my two newest books, which are available now.
If you’re a regular follower of my posts, I hope that I’ve convinced you by now that there’s something fun and fascinating in the old-time history of hockey. I know it’s probably...
When the NHL announced in early 1976 that its two worst teams, the Washington Capitals and Kansas City Scouts, would travel to Japan for a four-game exhibition series dubbed the Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Cup, fans and media were baffled. The Capitals and the Scouts were both expansion teams, with a...
Congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche who, on Sunday night, became Stanley Cup champions for the 2021-22 NHL season. It’s Colorado’s first Cup victory in 21 years, since 2001, and the team’s third since relocating from Quebec City for the 1995-96 season. The Nordiques, of course, never won...
Well, let’s face it. It ain’t the Stanley Cup. Then again, the Leafs have won the Stanley Cup twice in my lifetime. (I don’t remember them. I was six months old in 1964 and 3 1/2 years old in 1967.) But I wasn’t even born the last time a Toronto player was named the NHL’s Most Valuable Player...
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Position
Name
Team
League
Rank Change
Scouting Report
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C
Logan Cooley
USNTDP
USHL
Up 1
Strong on the puck and really creative, plays bigger than his size indicates. Has good anticipation of the play and is always where he needs to be to make a play. He has a good shot and isn't afraid of...
The New York Hockey Club first launched its operations for the 1895–96 season (as the Hockey Club of New York) when Arthur Davies Knowlson, a player from Lindsay, Ontario, organized the club with a group of fellow Canadian expats, playing in exhibition games. The players were predominantly from...
You may have heard the news, which broke Monday of last week, about Mitch Marner being carjacked at gunpoint. Coming as it did, just two days after Tampa Bay eliminated Toronto in game seven of the opening round of the NHL playoffs, it sort of sounded like the start of a bad joke. But it wasn’t...
