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Late round as in 3rd round and onwards.
For me
Detroit
1990 - ) Vyacheslav Kozlov (3rd round), Stewart Malgunas ( 4th Round), Jason York (7th round)
1991 -) Chris Osgood (3rd round), Mike Knuble (4th round)
1992 -) Dan Mcgillis (10th round)
1993 -) John Jakopin (4th round), Norm Maracle ( 5th...
Well we put it to the poll open to all members and here are the results. Thanks to everyone participating again this year and we will see how wrong we are again next spring :laugh:
Biggest risers from our rankings last year are Las Vegas, Winnipeg, Boston, Colorado, LA and Philly. The biggest...
It's hard to believe that in the early 1970s, over 95% of NHL players were Canadian in origin. This figure has been on the decline for the past 40+ years, and by 2015-16, the majority of NHL players were not of Canadian origin. It seemed to begin to change when the WHA Winnipeg Jets imported...
I was looking at the past two QMJHL drafts and something very interesting came up.
During the 2015-16 season four players were permitted to play in Midget AAA in Quebec even though they were still of Bantam age (14 yrs old); Xavier Parent, Samuel Poulin, Xavier Simoneau and Olivier Desroches...
Here’s a quick top 40. Everyone I listed I’ve seen multiple games of. There are some guys I like (Dorofeyev and some others) but I haven’t seen enough of them to properly rank them. This list is about the guys I’ve legit watched, so if I’m missing anyone that should be on this list, feel free to...
1. Vitaly Abramov | RW
2. Liam Foudy | C
3. Vladislav Gavrikov | D
4. Elvis Merzlikins | G
5. Alexandre Texier | C
6. Jonathan Davidsson | RW
7. Kirill Marchenko | RW
8. Andrew Peeke | D
9. Gabriel Carlsson | D
10. Kevin Stenlund | C
11. Daniil Tarasov | G
12. Veini Vehvilainen | G
13. Calvin...
And by official, I mean mine, of course.
So after all the fighting on the other threads, i tried to crank out a stats-based Center ranking, but nothing too fancy. At the same time it's both complicated and simple.
NOTE: IF YOU HATE STATS JUST SKIP TO THE BOTTOM FOR THE FINAL RANKINGS
Here's...
Eligibility
Players will be judged only on their performance as hockey players
Currently active players are eligible, but will be judged only on what they have already accomplished
No, I don’t know what to do with Connor McDavid either
Preliminary Discussion Thread
Anyone may participate in...
As I start to watch more games and evaluate more prospects, the lists will grow in size, much like previous years. This list will not be pinpoint accurate as I'm only in the beginning stages, so suggest some players you think I should watch more of!
1. C Jack Hughes
2. RW Kaapo Kakko
3. C Alex...
I decided to create 2 polls - the first asks which 10 teams have the brightest future? This doesn't mean "who will improve the most", but rather "who will be cup contenders, who will rack up the most points, who will always be near the top". The second poll is the opposite, and asks "who will...
Since everyone’s posting theirs and I don’t exactly agree with it+boredom, here’s mine.
1. Rasmus Dahlin
2. Andrei Svechnikov
3. Elias Pettersson
4. Miro Heiskanen
5. Quintin Hughes
6. Casey Mittelstadt
7. Filip Chytil
8. Martin Necas
9. Oliver Wahlstrom
10. Noah Dobson
11. Kirill Kaprizov
12...
1-Rasmus Dahlin, Buffalo, 1st overall in 2018
Rasmus is a defender with franchise level impact, he should fit in right away on the Sabres top pair, may need to be eased in on the PP time and defensively as he is still very thin and will need to fill out before being able to match up with every...
Ranger's Summer 2018 Prospect Ranking
1. Filip Chytil (F) (2017 Draft - 1st round) (+2)
2. Igor Shestyorkin (G) (2014 Draft - 4th round) (-1)
3. Vitali Kravtsov (F) (2018 Draft - 1st round) (NR)
4. Lias Andersson (F) (2017 Draft - 1st round) (-2)
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5. Libor Hajek (D) (2016 Draft - 2nd round)...
Over the past 20 days, I've conducted a set of daily polls to roughly determine who HFBoards thought were the top 20 goaltending prospects in the NHL.
The requirements to be included were the goalie had to be under 25 years of age at the starting date of the first poll, and the goalie must have...
Let me start off by saying I don’t think this is a good draft like a lot of people seem to think. I think it’s about average but I’m not a huge fan so far. The 2018 draft was stacked and I can’t see how some like this draft better. Another thing, it’s hard to find video on some euro guys so far...
So before reading this, there's a few things I'd like to say just to clear confusion and FAQ's.
-There are no goalies in this ranking, I'm not a goalie scout, and I'm not very good at evaluating them!
-The MAX number of games played in the NHL to be included is 25. I could have missed out on a...
Goaltending. That’s right, that one little thing that can bail out a slacking team at any given night – and on the other hand, it has the power to ruin everything your skaters have done right in a matter of minutes. This past year, the top 10 goalies had an impact of 27 to 15 GSAA (goals saved...
I found this stat to be cool.
If your team wins the Stanley cup; you have a 66 % chance of them winning it again within 7 years.
Pittsburgh, Chicago, LA have all repeated this decade. Detroit, NJ, Colorado have all recently repeated. After the NHL expanded in 1967 the Islanders, Oilers...
Hi there,
I've compiled the data about goalies regular season Z-Score (# of standard deviations above the mean), because I couldn't find it on the internet or here on forums (it seems that some data was lost in migration). Z-Score is IMHO the best tool for measuring goalie dominance over his...
Obviously every system isn't perfect, but I like a system that encourages trading.
Here are a few thoughts/ideas, some less novel and likely recycled.
1. Trading salary. There's arguments against this, but teams can already retain cap hit if trading a player, so how about the team retains the...
