Brendan Brisson News & Stories

David St-Louis takes you through the Vegas Golden Knights 27th-ranked prospect pool going into the 2024-25 NHL season, with scouting reports and tools grades on its 14 best prospects.

David St-Louis, Mitch Brown, Lassi Alanen, and J.D. Burke team up to give an updated look at the Vegas Golden Knights prospect pool ahead of the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline.

Mitch Brown takes you through the Vegas Golden Knights' 29th-ranked prospect pool, with scouting reports, tools grades, etc. on the best their system has to offer.

The Elite Prospects 2023 NHL prospect ranking countdown begins with a look at the 100th to 51st-best skater prospects.

The Golden Knights have always been willing to trade prospects if it meant upgrading the roster.

Elite Prospects Dir. of North American Scouting Mitch Brown breaks down the Vegas Golden Knights system ahead of the 2023 NHL trade deadline.

The AHL is often the last step to the NHL. Who's on the cusp for each NHL franchise?

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings continue with a look at the Vegas Golden Knights' 21st-ranked system.

The EP Rinkside top 100 affiliated skater prospects countdown continues with Mitch Brown's article on the prospects ranked between 50-26.

EP Rinkside's college hockey expert Ryan Lambert recaps the second day of action at the NCAA tournament.

The NCAA tournament starts tomorrow, and EP Rinkside senior columnist gets you prepared with this preview of the annual college hockey tournament.

The United States and Canada are using college players to fill out their rosters at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. Ryan Lambert looks at the playoff picture with so many high-end players out of action during the games.

The University of Michigan plays host to an almost unmatched assemblage of talent, with top prospects lining every corner of their roster. In this week's Scout's Notebook, Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis looks at Brendan Brisson, Thomas Bordeleau, and Mackie Samoskevich's games.

The Vegas Golden Knights boast the NHL's 17th-best prospect pool according to our Elite Prospects scouts, and they're the subject of today's writeup in the EP Rinkside prospect pool rankings countdown.

Elite Prospects team of scouts have convened to rank the 100 best prospects outside of the NHL. The countdown continues with a look at the players they ranked between 50-26.

The Anaheim Ducks and their 12th-ranked prospect pool in the NHL might be as unfairly maligned a team as you’ll find in this entire process. The future is Orange County...

The 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship is just around the corner, and I had the opportunity to chat with Team USA head coach Nate Leaman about this year’s squad. What...

No two draft picks are created equal. That’s as apparent in the immediate aftermath of any draft as it is five-plus years down the road, even if the true yield...

No two draft picks are created equal. That’s as apparent in the immediate aftermath of any draft as it is five-plus years down the road, even if the true yield...

It only took about eight hours on top of yesterday’s three-or-so, but we finally, almost mercifully, reached the conclusion of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. 217 draft picks later, the...

The first-round of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft came and went, and it was full value, as always, with its fair share of awesome picks, duds, and totally out of...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. More than a year spent tracking the progress of hundreds of players, consulting with industry insiders, running the numbers, and it all...

There isn’t another team in all of hockey like the USHL’s Chicago Steel. When the pandemic brought their season to a halt, they’d just won 13 straight, vaulting themselves to...

If you’re familiar with EliteProspects’ draft coverage, then you’re well aware at this point of my affinity for Thomas Bordeleau, the No. 23-ranked prospect in our 2020 NHL Draft Guide....