After taking a stable, reliable defensemen in Round 1, the Oslo Outlaws added a skilled winger in 5-9 Henrik Haapala from Finland. Haapala has wheels and hockey smarts and is a good shooter. Scouts said they would like to see him work better with teammates and pass more and people tend to compare him to…
In the first round, Zurich GM Dennis Sullo picked a Moscow-born right wing. In the second round, he picked a Moscow-born right wing. Expect a call from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Dennis. Alexey Toropchenko, a 6-foot-tall, 21-year-old Moscow native joins Alexandre Polunin on the Lions and both are expected to add offense. Toropchenko is not…
After a stellar, but in the end disappointing year, Athens will have to remodel a little to stay near the top of the league and they weren’t going to get any immediate help picking 23rd in the draft. But they did pick up a good asset for the future in goalie Peter Thome, a 21-year-old…
With a pick obtained two seasons ago as part of an Alexander Ovechkin trade, Dublin General Manager Gayle Rock picked Californian Troy Loggins, a center with a well-rounded game. Loggins, 22, is smaller than most scouts and coaches would like, but he does everything pretty well. He might not be dynamic enough to draw top…
Lisbon HC won’t have Steven Stamkos, John Tavares and Matt Moulson forever. But that doesn’t mean it will get easy for their opponents. Matthew Barzal and Casey Mittelstadt are among the 9 forward prospects in the system to help young star Max Domi. How the other prospects develop will likely determine how succesful GM Bryan…
The Generals and General Manager Andy Rolling took their second defenseman in the first round and this one should be a good complement to Alexei Bereglazov. Finn Niclas Almari has the physical tools for long-term employment in the league, although scouts question his hockey sense and would like to see him think offense a little…
Milan has lots of talented forwards, but the Guerriero saw a need at center for someone who could create offense and with pick no. 13, they got their guy in 21-year-old Finn Aapeli Rasanen. Look for Rasanen to spend a lot of time playing with Matthew Tkachuk in the future. The draft guide said “This…
GM Andrew Rolling’s Geneva Generals have a good base of young players led by Dylan Larkin and Colton Parayko, with seven forwards under 25 with PO ratings of 80 or higher, and two defensemen with the same qualities including Brandon Carlo and Parayko. If Rolling was looking for a long-term “need” then goalie seemed like…
With the 11th pick in the draft, Helsinki followed a recipe that really paid off for them earlier this week. They selected a prospect without attributes, namely point machine Henri Jokiharju, a defenseman with the Portland Winter Hawks in the WHL and property of the Black Hawks in the NHL. Earlier in the week, the…
The Krassnye Zvezdy, who in the past have favored Russians, went across the ocean and out of the Draft Guide to pick Morgan Frost 10th in the Season 9 Draft. The 18-year-old from Aurora, Ontario, was also a first-round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in 2017 and he spent the last season scoring 112 points…
