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DRAFTPRO – 2021 HLINKA GRETZKY REVIEW – DON’T SLEEP ON THE SLOVAKS

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021Features

By Samuel Dummer “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” That quote was lifted from the film 1970 film ‘Tora! Tora! Tora!’ and believed to have been

DRAFTPRO – THE 2021 HLINKA GRETZKY CUP – WHERE UNDERAGE STARS SHINE AND RECORDS ARE BROKEN

August 9, 2021August 10, 2021Features

By Samuel Dummer The Hlinka Gretzky Cup is a best-on-best U18 hockey tournament that runs every year in August. The Hlinka Gretzky Cup, although known by various other names over the years, has been a

DRAFTPRO – 2022 NHL DRAFT FIRST GLANCE

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021Features, Rankings, Reports

By Jonah Fleisher With the 2021 Draft having come and gone, the DraftPro team has shifted its sights to the next crop of draft eligible players. And after a relatively thin draft class in 2021

DRAFTPRO – 2021 NHL DRAFT AFTERMATH – THE DRAFT DAY STEALS

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021Features, Reports

In part one Draft Prospects Hockey Head Scout Jared Brown looked at those who we at DraftPro had ranked inside our top 224 for the 2021 NHL Draft but for one reason or another were

DRAFTPRO – 2021 NHL DRAFT AFTERMATH – THE DRAFT DAY MISSES

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021Features, Reports

As we conclude the 2021 draft, Jared Brown – DraftPro Head Scout, went back and looked at who out of our top 224 ranked draft eligible prospects weren’t picked in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft.

DRAFTPRO – 2021 PROSPECT COMPARISONS

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021Features

By Kai Farenholtz, Alex Taxman, and Willem Dezwaan. A few of our scouts from this season were asked to give us what they think are some good ‘comparables’ in the 2021 NHL draft. That is

DRAFTPRO- L’HEUREUX DRIVEN BY EMOTION

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021Features

By Jonah Fleisher Halifax Mooseheads Forward Zachary L’Heureux It was April 13th, and the Halifax Mooseheads of the QMJHL were on the wrong side of a blowout to the Charlottetown Islanders. The Mooseheads wound up

DRAFTPRO – 2021 NHL DRAFT HOT TAKES

July 23, 2021July 23, 2021Features

A few of our scouts from this season have been asked to give us what they think are some ‘hot takes’ on the 2021 NHL draft as we are mere hours away from the first

DRAFTPRO – 2021 BY THE NUMBERS

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021Features

THE ANALYTIC DARLINGS OF THE 2021 NHL DRAFTBy Dan Stewart In our humble opinion, advanced stats or analytics, whatever you want to call them, are not and can never become a substitute for actually getting

DRAFTPRO – FINAL 2021 MOCK DRAFT

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021Features

So, the first round of the 2021 NHL Draft is just hours away and many are excited to see which of these young men join an NHL organization where let’s face it, the real work