Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears for HOCKEY IS BACK. After a painful summer, our favorite sport is back on the ice. Across the league a number of rookie tournaments are taking place and as they conclude NHL training camps will open. The NHL returns, and LWOS is here to cover all the action. […] READ MORE
Tag: Brady Vail
Hamilton Bulldogs Sign Forwards Connor Crisp, Brady Vail
The following is a press release from the AHL’s Hamilton Bulldogs. MONTREAL, QUEBEC – Montreal Canadiens and Hamilton Bulldogs General Manager Marc Bergevin announced today the Bulldogs have signed forwards Connor Crisp and Brady Vail to try-out agreements. Both players will join the Bulldogs on the club’s current road trip and are scheduled to practice tomorrow. Crisp recently completed his fourth Ontario Hockey League […] READ MORE
An Early Look at the World Juniors: Team USA Forwards
Welcome back to Top Shelf Prospects, the column looking at Hockey’s Stars. Over the next week or so we will be previewing the 2014 World Junior Championships, a tournament that will be played in Malmo Sweden from December 26, 2013 to January 5, 2014. As always, you can check out the previous Top Shelf Prospects […] READ MORE
2013 OHL Preview: West Division
Welcome back to Top Shelf Prospects. We continue previewing the CHL for the 2013-14 season, going East to West across the country. After looking at the OHL Mid-West Division yesterday, we finish with the OHL’s Wesst Division. As always you can check out the previous Top Shelf Prospects articles here. The OHL’s West Division is […] READ MORE
Early Look: Team USA World Juniors
Welcome to today’s edition of “Top Shelf Prospects”. If you missed any of my previous articles you can find a complete listing of my them here. With the CHL seasons now well over a month old, I thought now would be a good time to look at the potential lineups for the World Junior Championships. […] READ MORE
Top Shelf Prospects: NHL Team Rankings – The Top 15
Now that we’ve taken a look at every team in the NHL, I felt that I should give a 1-30 ranking of every team in the NHL and the quality of their prospects. This is an overall view of each team’s entire system and includes players drafted in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. In this […] READ MORE
Top Shelf Prospects: Montreal Canadiens
Welcome to today’s edition of “Top Shelf Prospects” – a team-by-team look at the top prospects in the NHL. Today, as I continue my alphabetical journey through the NHL I bring you a look at the Montreal Canadiens. As always you can find a complete listing of my previous articles here. Since we had an […] READ MORE
NHL Draft Weekend: Winners and Losers
Okay, I know its early to judge the winners and losers of this year’s NHL Entry draft. And yes, its true, the real winners and losers of Draft Day will not be known for 3-5 years, but thats not gonna stop me from giving my early opinion on the winners and losers of the 2012 […] READ MORE
NHL Mock Draft Part 4: Picks 49-65
Yesterday I brought you the Part 3 of our 2 Round NHL Mock Draft. You can read Part 1 (Picks 1-14) here and Part 2 (Picks 15-31) Here, and Part 3 (picks 31-48) Here. Before we move on to our final part, let’s quickly review the FAQs about this mock draft. – Our draft Rankings […] READ MORE
NHL Draft Prospect Profile #51: Brady Vail
Drafted 94th Overall by the Montreal Canadiens. Brady Vail has improved by leaps and bounds this year, after a disappointing rookie season. A Centre for the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL, Vail went from scoring 3 goals and 10 points in 2010-11, to scoring 22 goals and 55 points this past season, in what was […] READ MORE
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Ben Kerr
Ben is a sports fan from just outside Toronto, Canada. In his day job he works as a lawyer. At night he is the COO of Last Word on Sports. Most of his articles are focused on hockey prospects.