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From the Quiet Ice . . . by Mike Filce In the spirit of welcoming in the NHL’s 32nd team in Seattle, I want to open the question of which current NHL-ers would be worthy of building an entire team around. There is endless debate over which NHL players are the most impactful, the best leaders, the best “team guys,” and the takes go on and on. It boils down to one question: how many guys are there that you would choose to build around? This short list isn’t what you would get from most pundits or “hockey insiders”; in fact, some on this list —Read More →

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Known as ‘The Scourge Of Colorado’, Elias Pettersson is setting the league alight with his dazzling play. The Vancouver Canucks’ Swedish rookie has 17 points from 11 games and is easily the early favourite for the Calder Trophy despite already missing a few games due to injury. To put Petterson’s achievement into perspective, he’s only the 5th NHL player ever to score 10 goals in his first 10 games. But how does this compare to previous Calder Trophy winners? Since the lockout there have been 10 offensive players who’ve lifted that silverware. At time of writing, Elias has played 11 games, so we’ll set thatRead More →

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The amount of Swedish players that have made a impact in the NHL have greatly increased the past 15 years. Now Sweden are the third most common nationality with more than twice as many players as Finland, which is the fifth most common country. Every season there are great Swedish players available in the draft. And if you don’t want to rely on that you can trade for a Swedish player that can score the Stanley Cup winning goal against the team you got him from. Today we are going to go through a couple of different kind of prospects. Some are going to beRead More →