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- Nov 5th, 15:57NHL Prospect Report
WHL Stock Watch: Cameron Schmidt pushing for top-10 spot with blazing start
In this edition of WHL Stock Watch, Mitch Brown looks at Cameron Schmidt, Gracyn Sawchyn, Harrison Brunicke, and more. - Oct 22nd, 17:292025 NHL Draft
Meet the Team: Team CHL unveiled for the 2024 CHL USA Prospects Challenge
With the CHL's roster for the inaugural CHL USA Prospects Challenge announced, here's a player-by-player breakdown of what to expect. - Oct 22nd, 14:57NHL Prospects
Rinkside Roundup: Logan Stankoven’s Calder Trophy hunt begins
In this week's Roundup, Hadi Kalakeche looks at NHLer Logan Stankoven, as well as prospects Cameron Schmidt, Caleb Desnoyers, and more. - Feb 27th, 14:00CHL
The EP Rinkside 2024 CHL Free Agency Guide
Mitch Brown, Greg Balloch, and Lauren Kelly team up to break down this year's best offerings in CHL free agency with scouting reports, tools grades, and player rankings. - 2023-12-06, 16:00NHL Prospect Report
WHL Stock Watch: Conor Geekie expanding game and highlight reel with Wenatchee Wild
The December WHL Stock Watch zeroes in on the play of Conor Geekie, Josh Davies, Joshua Ravensbergen, Carter Sotheran, and Adam Titlbach. - 2023-09-22, 16:09NHL Prospects
The USHL's most improved players and how they did it
Mitch Brown looks at the players who made the most strides this past season. - 2023-09-21, 19:00CHL
The WHL 2023-24 Season Preview: Who will break through in a year of turnover?
Mitch Brown previews the 2023-24 WHL season. - 2023-06-22, 19:182023 NHL Entry Draft
Film Room: It's worth betting on Samuel Honzek and his home run potential
Few prospects combine Samuel Honzek's puck skills, skating, and size. Even fewer have the production to go with it. - 2023-04-18, 15:002023 U18 World Hockey Championships
Meet the Team: Canada's 2023 U18 World Hockey Championship roster
Elite Prospects Dir. of North American Scouting Mitch Brown goes player-by-player through Canada's 2023 U18s roster, with scouting reports on the entire team. - 2022-12-19, 21:302023 NHL Entry Draft
The Elite Prospects December ranking of the top 32 prospects in the 2023 NHL Draft
The Elite Prospects scouting team has put together their first draft ranking of the season for the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, with scouting reports on their top 32 players. - 2022-11-25, 16:52NHL Prospects
Scout's Notebook: Five standout WHL rookies
The WHL is loaded right now, our scout takes a look at some of the rookies who have been helping push the envelope. - 2022-10-12, 19:01NHL Prospects
Film Room: Fabian Lysell and the change of pace game
Mitch Brown takes you into the Film Room™️ to look at the evolution of Fabian Lysell's game in his draft-plus-one season with the Vancouver Giants - 2021-10-04, 06:23Prospect Pool Rankings
EP Rinkside 2021-22 Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 9-ranked Florida Panthers
The Florida Panthers boast the ninth-best prospect pool in the NHL according to our scouts, and they're the next team in our EP Rinkside prospect pool rankings countdown. - 2020-12-04, 20:00Scouting Reports
The EliteProspects Rinkside 2020-21 Off-Season Prospect Pool Rankings: the No. 13-ranked Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche must be the envy of many a general manager. Not only have they unearthed their core through the draft and careful maneuvering elsewhere. They’ve locked many of... - 2020-11-06, 14:30NHL Entry Draft 2020
The Unclaimed: Execs & Scouts Dish on why EliteProspects Canadian 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... - 2020-10-14, 14:00NHL Entry Draft 2020
Scout’s Roundtable: EliteProspects’ Favourite Picks From the 2020 NHL Draft
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... - 2020-10-06, 17:00NHL Entry Draft 2020
Mocking the First 3 Rounds, 92 Picks of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft
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... - 2020-10-02, 19:00Rankings
Ranking the NHL’s Best Prospects, Skaters 25-1
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... - 2020-09-22, 19:00Scouting Reports
10 Observations From 2 Years of CHL Data Tracking
In the pursuit for better CHL data, I’ve manually inputted event data in a spreadsheet for over 1200 games – including 900 in the past two seasons. For the most... - 2020-09-22, 15:00NHL Entry Draft 2020
J.D. Burke’s Top 103 Skaters Ranking for the 2020 NHL Draft
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... - 2020-09-02, 14:00NHL Entry Draft 2020
The 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... - 2020-07-08, 16:00NHL Entry Draft 2020
VIDEO: EliteProspects Scouts Meet to set 2020 NHL Entry Draft Ranking Version 4.0
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... - 2020-07-01, 16:21NHL Entry Draft 2020
BURKE: Wrapping up the 2020 CHL Import Draft
With the conclusion of the 2020 CHL Import Draft today, at least one such event occurred on schedule without a hitch. In June, no less. It’s a complicated process, so... - 2020-06-17, 15:30Rankings
EXCLUSIVE: EliteProspects 2020 NHL Entry Draft Ranking Version 4.0
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... - 2020-02-14, 15:30Rankings
EXCLUSIVE: EliteProspects 2020 NHL Entry Draft Ranking Version 2.0
What was once a heated debate is now a coronation; Alexis Lafrenière has separated himself from Quinton Byfield, and by a not-insignificant margin at that. The decision at No. 1... - 2019-12-22, 16:00World Juniors 2020
THE PIPELINE SHOW: The World Junior Hockey Championships Preview Show
This week on The Pipeline Show it’s the full preview of the 2020 World Junior Championship with in-depth analysis of the five main contenders with some fearless predictions thrown in... - 2019-12-19, 22:30World Juniors 2020
Meet the Team: Canada’s World Junior Hockey Championship Roster
The 2019 World Junior Hockey Championships was a tournament to forget for the host Canadians, who failed to medal on home soil, losing an overtime match to Finland in the... - 2019-11-24, 16:00The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: NCAA Campus Report, U Sports Update, In the Dub, & Draft Spotlight Shines on Marco Rossi
This week on The Pipeline Show we take a look at a list of NCAA free agents that are bound to be targetted by NHL teams next spring. We also... - 2019-11-17, 16:00The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: Talking the ‘Dub, U17s, Danny Weight, & Joel Sexsmith
This week on The Pipeline Show, listeners get a recap of the World U17 Hockey Challenge, get the inside scouting reports on five probable 1st round picks from Europe and... - 2019-09-15, 18:12The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: WHL Season Previews for Brandon, Vancouver, Medicine Hat, Prince Albert, & Winnipeg
This week we wrap up the Western Hockey League team-by-team previews with the help of four more WHL General Managers plus there is a makeshift preview for the one team... - 2019-09-11, 20:03Scouting Reports
Scouting Report: Anaheim Rookie Faceoff Wrap-Up, With Commentary From Players, Coaches
IRVINE, CA – Six teams took to the ice for the 2019 Anaheim Rookie Faceoff this past weekend in Southern California, featuring some of the best and brightest prospects that... - 2019-08-08, 22:00Scouting Reports
EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 10 Ranked Colorado Avalanche
It’s a little staggering to consider just how well the Colorado Avalanche have managed to bounce back from their 48-point 2016-17 season. In just two short years, they’ve managed to... - 2019-08-07, 09:03Hlinka-Gretzky Cup 2019
Scouting Report: Day 2 of Hlinka-Gretzky in Břeclav – Canada vs. Suisse, Finland vs. Czechia
BRECLAV, Czech Republic – As a testament to the commitment EliteProspects and EP Rinkside are making to taking the NHL Draft and prospect coverage by storm, I’m on the scene... - 2019-08-05, 11:01The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: Talking to NAHL, NCHC, USHL Commissioners & Ivan Hlinka Preview Show
This week marks the Season 14 finale of The Pipeline Show as we continue our month of “Ask the Commish” segments learning all about three more leagues plus there is... - 2019-07-18, 21:39Scouting Reports
EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings: No. 28 Ranked Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames prospect pool is the victim of their scouts and development staffs success. With so many of their top tier prospects graduating to the NHL, there aren’t many... - 2019-07-03, 19:00The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: Talking with the CJHL Commissioner, Looking at a Shifting NCAA Landscape & More!
Now that we are officially into the off-season, better known as July. The plans for The Pipeline Show shift focus from the heavy NHL draft content toward information about the... - 2019-06-22, 06:46NHL Entry Draft 2019
BURKE: Winners and Losers From Day One of the NHL Entry Draft
VANCOUVER — Don’t let anyone ever tell you that grading a team’s Draft, whether in real time or the moments afterwards, is a fool’s errand. It’s about extracting the most... - 2019-06-18, 13:00NHL Entry Draft 2019
The EP Rinkside Mock 2019 NHL Entry Draft
All 31 of the NHL’s teams are descending on Vancouver, holding court with their scouting departments, and consolidating their rankings in advance of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft this Friday.... - 2019-06-17, 13:00The Pipeline Show
THE PIPELINE SHOW: A Draft Preview Special
This week on The Pipeline Show we present the annual NHL Draft Preview special in conjunction with our friends at HockeyProspect.com. The nearly 3-hour special features five scouts from the... - 2019-06-13, 20:00NHL Prospects
EP Rinkside NHL Entry Draft & NHL Prospect Mailbag
I wasn’t playing around when I said earlier this week that we’d be stepping up our reader interactions. So begins the EP Rinkside NHL Entry Draft and NHL Prospect Mailbag.... - 2019-06-06, 13:30NHL Entry Draft 2019
EP Rinkside NHL Draft Retrospective; All our Draft Coverage, Analysis in One Place
The NHL Entry Draft may still be over two weeks away — at the time of writing this, anyway — but we’ve been hard at work since EP Rinkside’s launch... - 2019-05-09, 13:24NHL Prospect Report
COHEN: Rookie Ozzy Wiesblatt looking to clinch his first big title
Ozzy Wiesblatt hails from Calgary, Alberta Canada. He’s a 17-year-old who plays for the Prince Albert Raiders in the WHL, who are currently one win away from being league champions....