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May 8th, 14:23Fantasy Hockey
Fantasy Hockey Rundown: The Swedes are coming!
Victor Nuńo checks in on a plethora of Swedish prospects who have very bright futures in the league and on your fantasy squad.
Mar 6th, 23:35NHL Prospect ReportSweden Stock Watch: Canucks prospect Jonathan Lekkerimäki thriving with Örebro
Jimmy Hamrin take stock of the coming and goings of Sweden, highlighted by the Canucks prospect.
2023-11-08, 15:00NHL Prospect ReportSweden Stock Watch: Felix Unger Sörum, Anton Johansson soaring with Leksands IF
The November Sweden Stock Watch highlights the performances of Anton Johansson, Felix Unger Sörum, Jonathan Lekkerimäki, Noah Östlund, Filip Bystedt, and Theo Lindstein.
2023-09-22, 18:592024 NHL DraftScout's notebook: Three draft-eligible standouts from the first weeks of the season
Lassi Alanen opens up the scouts notebook to examine a couple early performances that you should take notice of.
2022-11-17, 21:22Draft RetrospectiveDraft Retrospective: Elias Pettersson from top prospect to top Canuck
How the Canucks center made a splash an than kept impressing after his draft eligible season.
2022-09-22, 17:45Prospect Pool RankingsEP Rinkside 2022 NHL Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 20-ranked Toronto Maple Leafs
The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Ranking Series continues with the 20th-ranked Toronto Maple Leafs.
2021-09-25, 13:00Prospect Pool RankingsEP Rinkside 2021-22 Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 15-ranked Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs don’t have any top-10 picks eligible for this prospect ranking. They only have one top-15 pick. That they find themselves as the No. 15-ranked prospect pool...
2020-11-04, 15:30NHL Entry Draft 2020The Unclaimed: Execs & Scouts Dish on why EliteProspects European Ranked Players Passed Through the 2020 NHL Draft
EliteProspects ranked 129 players for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, and 20 of them passed through the draft unclaimed. That’s pretty much par for the course. The average team ranks...
2020-09-30, 19:00RankingsRanking the NHL’s Best Prospects, Skaters 75-51
We’re less than a week away from the draft, so what better time than now to take stock of the best prospects already tied down with an NHL franchise? This...
2020-09-02, 14:00NHL Entry Draft 2020The EliteProspects 2020 NHL Draft Guide is now Available
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...
2020-02-25, 15:00NHL ProspectsKÅGSTRÖM: A Resurgent Dominik Bokk is Happy to Play Hockey Again
Just imagine what a couple of weeks down in the Czech Republic can do for one’s confidence. When highly touted German prospect Dominik Bokk left his SHL side Rögle a...
2020-02-17, 16:00NHL Entry Draft 2020Scouting Report: 6 Swedish NHL Draft Re-Entries to Watch in 2020 NHL Draft
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...
2020-01-02, 16:00World Juniors 2020VIDEO: Rhett Rakhshani Recounts his 2008 World Juniors Experience
Not everyone can win a medal at the World Juniors. That’s something Rhett Rakhshani and Team USA learned the hard way back in 2008. But even if that...
2019-11-07, 15:30NHL ProspectsBURKE: Why the Carolina Hurricanes Wanted Dominik Bokk
The Carolina Hurricanes had no shortage of options when they looked at the St. Louis Blues as a potential partner in a Justin Faulk trade. Prospects, draft picks — the...
2019-10-16, 19:18RankingsBURKE: Performing an Audit on my 2017 NHL Entry Draft Ranking With the Help of NHLe
It feels as if decades have passed since the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Such is the state of the contemporary NHL, a constantly shifting landscape that is getting populated by...
2019-08-27, 14:30NHL Entry Draft 2019Post-Draft Prospect Profiles: Filip Cederqvist No. 143 to the Buffalo Sabres
The 2019 NHL Entry Draft wasn’t Filip Cederqvist‘s first kick at the can. The entire league wielded the right of refusal on Cederqvist in rounds one-through-seven just a year prior....
2019-08-15, 19:00Scouting ReportsEP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 4 Ranked Vancouver Canucks
Our seventh and final Canadian club lands at No. 4 league-wide. The Vancouver Canucks have been one of the very worst teams in hockey the last four seasons, so you...
2019-08-05, 18:37Scouting ReportsEP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 13 Ranked Buffalo Sabres
It’s a testament to the Buffalo Sabres ability to draft and develop talent that they rate in the top half of the league less than a year removed from watching...
2019-07-31, 21:17Scouting ReportsEP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 17 Ranked Edmonton Oilers
In a perfect world, the Edmonton Oilers’ prospect pool rating in the bottom half of the NHL would signal a turn of fortune for the big league roster. To some...
2019-07-27, 22:26Scouting ReportsEP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 20 Ranked Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars have always had their share of great draft hits. Take the captain, Jamie Benn, who Dallas snagged in the fifth round of the 2007 NHL Entry Draft....
2019-07-24, 18:00Scouting ReportsEP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 23 Ranked St. Louis Blues
The reigning Stanley Cup Champions’ prospect pool checks in at No. 23 on our countdown. The top of the cupboard has some tasty treats but the depth is a tad...
2019-07-13, 18:38Scouting ReportsTrade Analysis: What are the Colorado Avalanche Getting in Calle Rosen
There’s been so much roster turnover in Colorado that one could hardly blame the average fan or analyst for not making note of Calle Rosen’s addition. Hell, even under normal...
2019-02-08, 14:39NHL ProspectsOilers prospect benefitting from another year in Sweden
Everything just went by so fast. One year Joel Persson was combining hockey on a semi-professional level with a job as a teacher’s assistant, the next he was anchoring the...
2019-02-01, 17:17NHL ProspectsBODIN: Ten SHL free agents of interest to NHL teams
For the past several years, the European free agent market has been of great interest to NHL teams. Although the rights to most prospects get picked up through the draft,...
