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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 constituting an invasion of privacy and defamation. Craig Button, an ice hockey analyst for TSN was ...

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 down: distance between feet, downward pressure with forward force through the shot, top hand out, a...

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 apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Edmonton Oilers 2021 draft ...

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 than the one in 2018, when everyone in the hockey world knew that Rasmus Dahlin was headed to Buffalo....