2014 NHL Entry Draft Top Prospects

June 30, 2014 by

Winnipeg Hockey Talk Top 30 2014 NHL Entry Draft Prospects —

2014 NHL Entry Draft: June 27 in Philadelphia

Winnipeg Hockey Talk 2014 NHL Draft Rankings:  *UPDATED June 30, 2014

I would like to acknowledge some of the other very good ranking websites like ISS, The Hockey Writers “Draft War Room”, Craig Button’s “Craig’s List”, NHL Central Scouting and TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Corey Pronman  and many more.  Some of these sites have a team of scouts while others base their rankings on a survey of NHL amateur scouts but they are all very good.

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Grading The Winnipeg Jets Draft: Rounds 2 – 4

June 29, 2014 by

The Winnipeg Jets Selected Six Players on the Day 2 of the 2014 NHL Draft —

On day two of the 2014 NHL Draft, the Winnipeg Jets selected six more players. Today, we will review their selections (3 players) for rounds two through four.  [Read more…]

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Winnipeg Jets Select Nikolaj Ehlers

June 28, 2014 by

Winnipeg Jets Select Nikolaj Ehlers in the 1st Round —

The results are in and what was expected to be wide open and interesting 1st round certainly was. The Winnipeg Jets got themselves a terrific prospect at #9.  Like many others, I didn’t expect Nikolaj Ehlers to be around at the #9 spot.  Winnipeg Hockey Talk had him ranked at #7.  TSN’s Craig Button had him at #6, ESPN’s Corey Pronman had him at #5, The Hockey Writers also had him at #6 so all in all I think the Winnipeg Jets did pretty well to get Ehlers at #9.  [Read more…]

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Craig Button Draft Class Top 5’s

June 26, 2014 by

Craig Button Ranks 2014 Prospects — 

Craig Button is currently a TV analyst on the NHL Network’s “NHL on the Fly” he is also an “Insider” and TSN Scout on TSN.  Button is also know for his popular NHL Draft Prospect Rankings on TSN.ca know as “Craig’s List”.

Recently he posted some Top 5 lists on the 2014 draft class called “Scout’s Honour”.

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Jakub Vrana: 2014 NHL Top Prospect

June 26, 2014 by

Jakub Vrana150Jakub Vrana — 

League:  SHL     Team:  Linkoping

Position:  LW/RW     Shoots:  Left

DOB:  Feb. 28, 1996     Birthplace:  Praha, CZE

Height: 6’0     Weight:  180

2013-14  SHL —  Games: 24   G: 2   A: 1  Pts: 3  PIM: 6   Plus/Minus: -3

2013-14  J20 —  Games: 24   G: 14   A: 11  Pts:  25  PIM: 26   Plus/Minus: +6  

2013-14  U18 WJC —  Games: 7   G: 8   A: 2  Pts:  10  PIM: 4   Plus/Minus: 3  

Winnipeg Hockey Talk’s evaluations of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft top prospects continue today with our featured prospect Jakub Vrana. [Read more…]

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