2010 NHL Draft Happy Fathers' Day to all you proud hockey dads out there, especially fathers of NHL Draft Prospects! On June 25th and 26th, 2010 the NHL Entry Draft will be televised live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Versus in the United States, and on TSN and RDS in Canada. All media in the NHL Network will broadcast the 2010 NHL Entry Draft too, of … [Read more...]
NHL Hockey Recruiting
In the summer of 2009, Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke said, "So we're fortunate, we have three pipelines -- the European pipeline, the CHL pipeline and the college pipeline. They all produce good players." -- http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=425710 The facts are that, still to this day, the majority of the NHL draftees are from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) which is Major … [Read more...]
From High School Hockey to NHL
According to an ice hockey analysis done by ncaa.org, approximately 11 percent of senior boys high school hockey players will play NCAA hockey for a college or university in the United States. NCAA also figures that 3.6 percent of NCAA senior male ice hockey players will get drafted by a National Hockey League team. Therefor the NCAA concludes that 0.31 percent of high school … [Read more...]
NCAA Hockey Championship
The Frozen Four The NCAA Hockey Championship, Frozen Four is a tournament of single elimination games. It starts in the last week of March with four regions, each having four teams in them. The Regional Final game pits four teams against each other in two different games for the right to advance to the Frozen Four. To advance to the 2010 Frozen Four, Boston College beat … [Read more...]
