Boston College junior goaltender Thatcher Demko has reportedly signed a three year entry-level contract by the Vancouver Canucks. TSN Hockey Analyst Bob McKenzie broke the news. UPDATE: As per @TSNBobMcKenzie, G Thatcher Demko to sign ELC with Vancouver Canucks this afternoon. #TSNHockey pic.twitter.com/6awYg8pweZ — SportsCentre (@SportsCentre) April 20, 2016 Demko was drafted by the Canucks with […] READ MORE
Tag: 2015 World Junior Hockey Championships
Zach Werenski Named Team USA Captain
Today saw USA Hockey announce who would be its Captain for the 2016 World Junior Championship in Helsinki, Finland, and that is none other than Zach Werenski (University of Michigan/Columbus Blue Jackets). Werenski is a Michigan-born defenseman, coming from Detroit-area suburb, Grosse Pointe Woods. Werenski has had an impressive hockey resume thus far in his career. He […] READ MORE
World Junior Hockey Championships Final Report
The World Junior Hockey Championships are now over and what do the results tell us? Here is one interpretation. Best Team At The Tournament Canada After missing the medals for the last two years and not winning the tournament since 2009, Canada was clearly on a mission and played like it. With the exception of […] READ MORE
Montreal Is Indeed a Hockey City
“Why do Torontonians drink their tea out of saucers? Because Montreal has all the Cups.”- an unknown, comical, Montreal Canadiens fan. Last week, Ken Campbell of The Hockey News suggested that Hockey Canada misread the hockey market in Montreal when they chose the co-host for the 2015 and 2017 World Junior Hockey Championship, along with […] READ MORE
Dylan Larkin Already Paying Dividends for Red Wings
When the Detroit Red Wings elected to choose Waterford native and USA National Team Development Program’s Dylan Larkin with the 15th overall selection in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, it was evident they saw something special in the young man. The organization tends to find diamonds in the rough, picking late in rounds due to […] READ MORE
Canadiens, Marc Bergevin Await Answers to Questions in 2015
The 2014 calendar year for the Montreal Canadiens was one filled with ups and downs as they turned themselves into one of the elite teams in the National Hockey League. They have some of the best players in the league and thanks to their last-placed finish in the Eastern Conference in 2012, have some of the brightest prospects […] READ MORE
World Junior Hockey Championships First Round Report
The first round of the World Junior Hockey Championships is over and for the most part, everything went as “scheduled”. In truth it has been disappointing so far. There has been more negative things about it than positive things to say including the attendance at Montreal which has refused to pay NHL prices for tickets. […] READ MORE
Max Domi Showing His Maximum Dominance at WJHC
Before you read this, I suggest you take a pen and paper, or for those who prefer notes on their smartphone, open the app. Now, spell “maximum dominance”. The set of adjectives describes Team Canada at the World Juniors perfectly, who have outscored their opponents 16-1 in three games on home soil at the Bell […] READ MORE
Players Thoughts on Canadian World Junior Media Coverage
The World Junior Championships are, by definition, a development tournament: more about teaching players in a competitive environment than the results themselves. You could be easily fooled by the way the Canadian media covers the event, however. Somewhere in its inception the World Junior Championships turned into the country’s biggest annual international tournament by a […] READ MORE
Performance, Not Result, Stands out in Canada's World Junior Opener
With the minutes ticking off the clock, red sweaters were everywhere in the Slovakian zone as Canada desperately searched for a goal. It wasn’t to be, in the dying seconds a Slovak defender desperately lifted the puck out of the zone just as the final buzzer sounded. To an unaware viewer it would seem that […] READ MORE
