As of this moment the Knights are the only team in the CHL at 20 W and own the highest winning percentage.
Tonight is a big night, best in the west vs east. I would have said the east is built for a strong year but we really haven’t seen it. Kingston has been the more consistent horse in the race and will come out strong.
Some of the east teams struggled early on like Oshawa without Ritchie or sennecke for a bit and Barlow was crap. Now they’re playing up to their potential and they still have smith to trade if need be.
Brantford hasn’t had Vanacker all year and just in the past month got hamara and jiricek. They’ll start rolling here soon. They have O’Donnell to trade if need be.
Not sure what’s up with Brampton- on paper they have a great team but on the ice they’re a crap shoot. Still have lots of time until the playoffs though and they could surprise teams like the Pete’s in 2022.
Barrie is the clear favourite for obvious reasons goaltending best top 4 in the league very great forward group, good coach etc and still bound to add (my pre season prediction was a rematch of 2013 OHL finals with same outcome- looking more and more that way) they have Vaughan as a trade chip if they need to add.
Kingston i always thought would do well in the first half of the season for a lot of these reasons but I definitely didn’t think they’d be leading the east going into almost December. They have a great team but once these other teams start gelling and adding I think we may drop off a little bit down to 3rd/4th. However we have more picks than anyone else I believe but not a 16 year old to trade and our 17 year old Hopkins is definitely staying here.
Knights should steamroll the west with the only big challenger being Erie assuming Kitchener trades off some of their key guys for that 2027 mem cup bid
Should be good one, remember many games in person at the KRock centre, just can’t get behind the stupidity of HushPuppyPlace WTF?
I agree lol Gatineau has the same name. Was joking with a buddy the other day about the 67s how they usually play Gatineau for a game every season in the slush puppy place and then they are one of our bigger rivals and they play here 4 times.
