When Team Sweden’s Under-18 Head Coach Magnus Hävelid released his final roster for the U18 World Hockey Championships, many observers raised one, maybe even two eyebrows in response. With...

It may be just a month into the season, but it feels like we’ve been waiting forever to have this 2020-eligible group emerge under the spotlight. Many have heralded this class as a marquee crop...

If you’ve watched the Windsor Spitfires lately, you may have noticed someone zipping up and down the ice with ease. That player is none other than Jean-Luc Foudy, a potential first-round...

The Muskegon Lumberjacks play in the USHL, and when you look at their team something jumps right off the page. They happen to have two players, Daniil Gushchin and Alex Konovalov; two skaters of...

SUNDSVALL, Sweden — The annual under-18 5 Nations tournament took place in Sundsvall, Sweden this past week, and EliteProspects Rinkside was in attendance. It’s the first U18...

SUNDSVALL, Sweden — In the second part of my review of the Under-18 5 Nations tournament, we’re going to look to the performance of Sweden and their neighbours to the east in Finland....

I’m so proud to finally share the hard work of our scouts in the form of this year’s first NHL Entry Draft ranking for the EliteProspects Rinkside audience. So much work goes into...

Vasili Ponomaryov is impossible to miss, but easy to appreciate. Shift-after-shift, he creatively manufactures scoring opportunities for himself and teammates. Shift-after-shift, he relentlessly...

DAWSON CREEK, Canada — The adjustment from Prep Hockey to the USHL isn’t supposed to be easy. The average skill level of players increased dramatically, as does the pace of play. Just...

After showing flashes of brilliance as a rookie, Jérémie Poirier is closely pursuing the lead in points for defencemen in the QMJHL this season. His point-per-game pace could give him one of the...

When your dad played over 1100 games in the NHL over the course of 17 seasons and notched 700 points along the way, it can be hard to create a name for yourself as you try to carve out your own...

Marco Rossi is the most talented Austrian product to strap on skates since Thomas Vanek was flapping his tarp in the wind for (nearly) every NHL organization. Despite that, Rossi has faced his...

The Swedish presence at the NHL Entry Draft is well-established. Their draft year, a little more ambiguous. Most of the Swedes hearing their name called are first-time draft-eligible players, but...

Size is becoming a less important factor for NHL decision-makers with each passing draft. This most recent draft is a good example of how the consensus is shifting. Smaller, quicker, skilled...

Dylan Holloway is a special case in this 2020 NHL Entry draft. While many prospects head to college at some point in their young career, those who make the jump in their draft year are rare. The...

It’s been a tale of two halves for Portland Winterhawks star winger Seth Jarvis. The 11th overall selection from the 2017 Bantam draft posted a successful rookie WHL campaign consisting of 16...

I caught just about everyone by surprise in November when my submission to the EliteProspects Rinkside 2020 NHL Draft ‘Watch List’ series included Sioux City Musketeers centre Joel...

There are 25 prospects between Kaiden Guhle (No. 20) and Braden Schneider (No. 46) on EliteProspects Rinkside’s most recent 2020 NHL Draft ranking. Whenever the NHL Draft takes place and in...

HIFK centre and top 2020 NHL Draft prospect Anton Lundell is a complete two-way player. It’s plain for all to see. He should be a top 10 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, too —...

When Lucas Raymond, a highly regarded prospect for the 2020 NHL Draft, started the season with Frölunda HC of the SHL, the then 17-year-old knew this would be his most challenging season to date....

Adler Mannheim forward Tim Stützle has rightly captivated the hockey world with a draft-year spent in the German men’s league. The German winger is a human highlight reel, stringing...

The NHL Draft has spoiled us in recent years. Elite finishing talent doesn’t reveal itself in advance of each June draft every year, but the junior ranks have been a conveyer belt of just...

There’s a bounty of players who have proven themselves as holding top-line upside, and each of the seven organizations involved in the first phase of the NHL’s Draft Lottery will draw...

Here I sit in the third week of June. Normally, I’d have my plane ticket in hand, gearing up for the annual adventure that is the NHL Entry Draft. I’ve come to know it as the best week of...

The scouting community has long regarded Frölunda HC winger Lucas Raymond as one of the 2020 NHL Draft’s top prospects. That gilded reputation took something of a hit in his draft-eligible...

The silver lining to this three-month void of hockey has been the chance scouts like myself have had to watch and rewatch USNTDP U18 defenceman Jake Sanderson‘s tape from the six months...

The best playmakers in hockey share one commonality — gravity. Rather than drawing one player into their orbit to make a play, they take in one or two defenders. It’s an unselfish,...

There’s a long list of accolades to Anton Lundell’s credit in spite of the fact that he just finished his first year of draft-eligibility. He helped Finland take home gold at the U18...

What do Nolan Patrick, Mat Barzal, and Cody Glass have in common? Connor Zary outscored each and every one of them in their draft years. Only six WHLers in the past decade recorded a higher...

When scouts describe the 2020 NHL Draft as a down year for defencemen, they do so with one caveat — that Jamie Drysdale, the top blueliner in the class, is an exception to the rule....