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If you’re a fan of the World Junior Championships, you know that they never disappoint. Year after year, they bring us some of the most exciting hockey you’ll ever see – particularly for Canadian hockey fans, who have been absolutely spoiled with gold medals and great memories.
Cue the goosebumps:
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Posts tagged Mark Scheifele
Your Guide to the 2012 World Junior C...
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If you’re a fan of the World Junior Championships, you know that they never disappoint. Year after year, they bring us some of the most exciting hockey you’ll ever see – particularly for Canadian hockey fans, who have been absolutely spoiled with gold medals and great memories.
Cue the goosebumps:
[youtube R8v8C3scw [...]
Sunday Jets Notes: Impact Players, Li...
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Impact and Complementary Players
It’s interesting to hear people analyze a certain player’s role or importance. Most assumptions about players are inherently imprecise, but none more so than the labeling of players by their supposed line. Terms like “1st line centre” and “2nd line winger” get thrown around a lot, and are meant to refl [...]
Why Do We Fall?
Why the Jets may need to lose the battle to win the war
If patience is a virtue, we’d all be wise to become a lot more virtuous, right now. I don’t want to harp on the following point, but need to make one thing clear: the Jets are…not a good team. To put it very kindly, they are “below average” defensively. They’ve demonstrated a trem [...]
Thoughts on Jets Camp
Future Jet (D) Paul Postma
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Next Wednesday (Oct. 5) is the deadline for all teams to submit their *23-man rosters to the NHL, and at present, there are 36 players remaining in camp. The list includes 3 goalies, 10 defencemen, and 20 active forwards (three are currently injured). That means there will probably be about two more rounds [...]
Jets News: Rookie Randoms, Winning wi...
Cheveldayoff, Scheifele, and Noel
Rookies Update
The Jets’ inaugural rookie camp kicked off Saturday at the MTS Iceplex in front of hundreds of fans eager to get their first taste of Jets action. Overall the practice was a bit anticlimactic, as the coaches merely ran the rookies through a series of intricate drills, but Mark Scheifele [...]
Winnipeg Jets Rookie Camp
Jets rookie camp begins this Saturday at 2 pm at the MTS Iceplex. It represents the first opportunity for management to evaluate their prospects first-hand, and will help them determine which of these young players may have NHL talent. There’s no doubt that the new franchise’s first ever selection, 7th overall pick Mark Scheifele, will garne [...]
To Fight Another Day
4th overall pick in 2009, Evander Kane
Why losing today will help the Jets win tomorrow
Many people are asking why the Jets have been so inactive in the free agent market. Is it that no one wants to play in Winnipeg? Are they simply too cheap? Perhaps there’s another explanation. Take a peak at the organizational chart below:
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2011 Jets Draft Prospects
1st round pick Mark Scheifele (shy-fil-lee)
Here’s a preliminary look at the new recruits, with a statistical bias (since I haven’t really seen them play yet.)
Mark Scheifele: A similar story to last year’s 4th overall pick, Ryan Johansen in that he didn’t play in the CHL at age 16 as most top prospects inevitably do. (He was pre [...]
2011 NHL Mock Draft
***WILL BE LIVE AT THE DRAFT IN MINNESOTA ON FRIDAY***
After several weeks of anticipation, it’s finally time.
Some may wonder what the process is. One way to start is by looking at a team’s draft history – some teams have a clear preference for players out of Canadian junior hockey, others for US college hockey, and still others for Europea [...]
Top Draft Prospects
(#1 ranked prospect Ryan-Nugent Hopkins)
This list should cover most of the first round picks. It includes 27F and 11D. It also specifies the players that are likely to make up the top-10. (Though Beaulieu could sneak in ahead of Bartschi). After the top-10, the remaining prospects are only somewhat in order, with ‘rank’ becoming [...]