Topi Niemelä News & Stories

Mitch Brown takes you through the Toronto Maple Leafs 20th-ranked prospect pool going into the 2024-25 NHL season with scouting reports and tools grades on its 17 best players.

David St-Louis, Lassi Alanen, and Mitch Brown team up to give an updated look at the Toronto Maple Leafs prospect pool ahead of the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline.

In the first two parts of this series, we explored 10 prospects from the EP Rinkside top 51-100 affiliated prospects. Those players primarily featured towards the end of that list,...

Mitch Brown tees up the Toronto Maple Leafs' 25th-ranked system, with scouting reports, tools grades, etc. on their 18 best prospects.

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

Elite Prospects Dir. of North American scouting Mitch Brown breaks down the Toronto Maple Leafs system ahead of the 2023 NHL trade deadline.

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Ranking Series continues with the 20th-ranked Toronto Maple Leafs.

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

Elite Prospects Dir. of European Scouting Lassi Alanen offers a player-by-player breakdown of the players likely to suit up for Finland at the 2022 World Juniors in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta.

Topi Niemelä, the Toronto Maple Leafs third-round pick in the 2020 draft, is leading all Liiga defencemen in points. Elite Prospects Dir. of North American Scouting Mitch Brown takes you into the Film Room™️ to show you how he does it.

Elite Prospects team of scouts have convened to rank the 100 best prospects outside of the NHL. They start today with a look at the players they ranked between 100-51.

Mitch Brown, our Dir. of North American scouting, manually tracked data from every single game of the 2021 World Juniors, and now he's sharing some insights made with that data on Rinkside.

Team Finland won five of their seven games, only losing to the two finalists, and securing a bronze medal in the process. This tournament was a smashing success for Finland.Head...

Mitch Brown shares 10 observations on the World Juniors using his manually tracked data set.

Topi Niemelä's offensive development is on full display at the World Juniors, where he's tied atop the scoring leaderboard among defencemen.

While there’s no disputing the shortcomings on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster, they have the right idea — insulate the stars with a plethora of cost-effective skill. To achieve that,...

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...

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...

We’re less than two weeks away from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, which means it’s time for yet another draft ranking. After the EliteProspects team published their final ranking and...

We’re exactly two weeks away from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, so what better time for another draft ranking than now? While we position ourselves as a united front in...

The title just about says it all, right? Wrong. Desperately wrong. The EliteProspects 2020 NHL Draft Guide is available, but we haven’t had a chance to let you know what...

The appetite for NHL Draft coverage expands with every year. Where the main course centred on the first round alone once sufficed, our audience now demands a seven-plate meal with...

We’re little over a week away from the NHL Draft Lottery, scheduled for Friday, June 26th, at 8 PM Eastern. So what better time to update our ranking of the...

There’s only one certainty left in hockey, and it’s that the 2020 NHL Entry Draft is going to take place. We don’t know how it’s going to work or when...