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A look into what we can expect from the two Canadiens prospects named to Team Canada’s 2022 World Junior Championship selection camp.

Views: The NHL held its amateur draft last week and in a shocking move the Montréal Canadiens, one of the most storied NHL franchises in history drafted a player who was criminally convicted in Sweden last year for sharing an explicit photo of a woman performing a sex act without her consent. While playing for SK Lejon, a professional hockey team in Sweden, Mailloux took the photo and circulated it among several teammates. In December, he was issued a summary fine for offensive photography ...

Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Solid prospect Matvei Petrov falls to the Edmonton Oilers in the sixth round, 180th overall Back to video Petrov is just the latest in a line of snipers the OIlers have drafted, including Kirill Maksimov, Raphael Lavoie and Carter Savoie. The hope is that one of them will hit it big and earn a spot in Edmonton’s Top 6. Elite Prospects says of young Petrov: “He has the mechanics of a wrist shot...

Article content The Oilers stayed on the straight and narrow in Round One, drafting right-shot centre Xavier Bourgault from the Quebec League, then spent much of Day 2 straying far from the board. In fairness, “the board” itself was not the fount of conventional wisdom it usually is, given the limitations of a season that saw many development leagues greatly curtailed if not shuttered altogether. It was an extremely challenging set of circumstances for hockey scouts industry-wide. We apolog...

The Buffalo News Flanked by boisterous hockey fans of the city’s beloved NHL franchise inside the Seneca Sports Lounge at KeyBank Center, Buffalo Sabres General Manager Kevyn Adams waited at a podium to announce the next foundational player for his roster rebuild. Adams wasn’t willing to tip his hand ahead of the NHL Draft, no matter how many scouts and analysts unanimously predicted who would be the fourth No. 1 pick in Sabres history. This event included more suspense th...

KAMLOOPS — From his early days in Kamloops minor hockey, there were some questions about how far Logan Stankoven could go with his size, or a lack thereof. However, from being selected by the Blazers fifth overall in 2018 to winning gold with the U18 team this spring, the 18 year old has proven a lot of people wrong. “I’ve always been a smaller player growing up, and I don’t hear it too much, but maybe there’s a few comments here and there that I may be too small for the pro league...

There’s a lot of needs that the Chicago Blackhawks have and a lot of needs that they could address in this year’s upcoming NHL Draft. Our wishlist for the NHL Draft already includes forwards in Mason McTavish, Chaz Lucius, Cole Sillinger and Jesper Wallstedt. Today we are looking at a familiar deficiency that the Blackhawks have in the prospect system: top-tier goal-scoring. Today’s draft prospect on my wishlist is Chicago Steel standout Matthew Coronato. Why He Fits Other than the fact...

The Seattle Kraken announced the hiring of their first-ever franchise head coach on Thursday. After an extensive search, they have landed on Dave Hakstol, former assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

When top prospect Brandt Clarke does interviews with National Hockey League teams the questions are often similar and expected. Thats why the session with the New York Islanders stood out.  "They run you through a test and you sit on Zoom for like two hours and they have, like, a sheet of paper on the screen and you just answer math questions and [different] stuff," the Barrie Colts defenceman said. "I asked around and was like, Were they trolling me, or is that actually what they do?" He f...

For today’s prospect profile, we look at a potential #1 overall pick this year, a hulking defenseman with a quality all-around game. Will he be there at #4 for NJ? Maybe not, but this year, you just can’t be certain.