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Hey all, it's that time again. I've now grown to the point where I can confidently rank what I believe are the best 250 eligible prospects for the 2018 NHL Draft. I did take February off as I was very busy, so this will be my 7th ranking of these guys. As always, please let me know what you...

I read a recent thread about how scoring was up the highest it has been since 2005-06. Thought it would be interesting to take a look at how many players in each season hit 1.00 PPG or higher, becuase it seemed like a lot were on pace this year. Below shows the average goals per game scored for...

The Montreal fans on HF conducted an extensive 7-round mock draft, here are the results. Hello all, for the veterans on this site, I have semi-officially taken over for the annual mock draft that Habsfan18 used to host. With the site migration, there might be some open spots for the lurkers or...

My 2nd draft rankings, and my 3rd and last one will be posted at the beginning of June. For this Ranking, I'm going do a Top 62 (2 Rounds) instead of the Top 50 that I did last time. Find my 1st one here if you wanna see the differences from my December list. 1. Rasmus Dahlin D 2. Andrei...

Nowadays we often hear people say they dont want to see their team draft a goalie high in the first round (or even in the first round, period). Because they are so hard to project, it's basically a wasted pick. Many goalies drafted in the first round end up busting hard, while a lot of goalies...

The NHL scoring race this year has been so volatile that it seems every few games the rankings shift dramatically behind the current points leader. Taylor Hall, Johnny Gaudreau, Connor McDavid, Blake Wheeler, Claude Giroux, Alex Ovechkin, and Anze Kopitar are among the players all leading their...

For statisticians.... I have put together a spread sheet which compares all teams league wide with a Bradley-Terry comparison model. Details of the model can be found here: http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~drh20/papers/bt.pdf or, less mathematical rigor on either USCHO or Collegehockeynews.com...

The Hart Trophy is synonymous with MVP. And MVP, is kind of ambiguous. You could interpret it as the best player i.e most valuable player in the league, or 'most valuable to his team'. There is a distinction, it usually goes to the best player in the league. Kucherov is probably the best...

Throughout these entire Games, there was something “off” about them that I just couldn’t quite put my finger on. Whether it was poor/weird scheduling or time zone differences, they just never felt like an actual Olympic Games to me. The Games are supposed to be big, bold, important, climactic...

Well, it is about that time I put out my annual top draft eligible list of Americans that I will surely be wrong on half of them lol!! I do want to add that this year is a strong year for the Americans overall. I can see anywhere from 6-8 players taken in the first round (4 possibly top 10-12)...

The NHL has done well with selling tickets at all the outdoor games the past 10 years but they may have a real headache in trying to sell tickets in South Bend, Indiana next year. Up until now every outdoor game in the US had teams that were a reasonable drive to the venue but Boston is 900...

Outside of the Miracle on Ice (the guys drafted/eligible from 76-81), the greatest era for USA Hockey was 1987-1992. I am talking specifically about drafts in a row. That is the era that brought much of the 1996 World Cup Gold winners together, and the core group for 1998/2002 Olympics as well...

Hey everybody -- inspired by that ESPN article from a few days ago, I decided I'd make my own rankings. Hope you enjoy. Poile - NSH (The master of re-signings. Jarnkrok, Forsberg, Arvidsson, Ekholm, Turris are all signed to incredible deals. The guy can build a helluva team and has the guts to...

Seen a lot of talk about the level of play and players in the Olympics and I can understand the disappointment for the NHL's decision of not letting the NHL players go, however people who can't enjoy this tournament are NHL fans not hockey fans. It is always funny to see how (mostly NA fans)...

Yeah, that's his real name. OUTSIDE of his contract of course, and even then there comes negative talk with that.... Going into the playoffs and such there will be no EIchel talk, so felt like making this thread to discuss the injustice that is his pro-career to this point. I had to ask who...

What sports and events that are not in the Winter Olympics do you think should be added? First a few quick notes: The IOC defines the following: Sport: All events operated by a governing body (ex. skating) Discipline: Basically what we would call a sport in everyday language (ex. short track...

I know CanucksArmy track the consensus ranking but they use some sources I personally don't find very trustworthy when it comes to final draft outcomes. A small extract of the weighted rankings for the 1st round (higher weight put on ISS and McKenzie). Dahlin is clearly number 1 - shocker...

There is a misconception on HF that keeps popping up this season about the Atlantic division. While it is a weak division overall, the misconception is that the top 3 teams (and Toronto more specifically) are where they are points wise because they get to “beat on” the five other Atlantic teams...

In my day job we have a tool called a pre-mortem. We discuss what could go wrong before making a significant change to a strategy or process. I am using a similar idea here. Basically, this is a prediction of what a "re-draft" in 2023 might say. The list is of players outside the consensus top...

Here are the top ten drafted prospects as voted on by members. 1. Elias Pettersson - Vancouver Canucks 2. Casey Mittelstadt - Buffalo Sabres 3. Miro Heiskanen - Dallas Stars 4. Cale Makar - Colorado Avalanche 5. Eeli Tolvanen - Nashville Predators 6. Dylan Strome -...