The Stanley Cup Final concluded on Monday night in Chicago, as the Blackhawks won their third championship in five years — a modern day dynasty if we’ve ever seen one. With their win, the order is now set for the 2015 NHL draft, which will be held next week, June 26 and 27, in South…
The final lottery spot on our community big board is the fifth straight spot to go to a forward, as Ottawa 67’s center Travis Konecny gets his name put up. Konecny easily outpaced the rest of the field in the voting, picking up 54 percent of the votes that you all registered. Konecny is a…
*What’s that, you say? You’ve not had enough Kimmo Timonen Stanley Cup content? ME NEITHER HERE’S MORE! [BSH] *Completely improbable Flyers free agent target Karri Ramo, because offseason. [CSN Philly] *The Flyers have put together a pretty nice little draft page for your viewing pleasure. [Flyers] *Terry Murray has jumped ship to go join overrated…
Mikko Rantanen :: Wing :: TPS Turku (SM-liiga) Why the Flyers will take him Rantanen is surely a player that the Flyers know very well. Not only have NHL scouts regarded him highly since the start of last season, Philadelphia has a current member of the organization in Antero Niittymäki who has seen the Finnish…
An American television network has never put together their own telecast for the NHL Draft. The first NHL draft to be broadcast was in 1987, and it was only shown north of the border by TSN. The first draft to be broadcast in the United States was two years later in 1989, when SportsChannel America…
We’re at the point on our draft board where things really open up, as all 11 of the guys we had on yesterday’s ballot picked up at least one vote. The big winner, though, was winger Evgeni Svechnikov, who just outpaced Swedish defenseman Oliver Kylington by picking up 32 percent of the vote to Kylington’s…
*The NHL and NHLPA announced that next year’s salary cap will be $71.4 million. [NHLPA] *And to start your day off in a terrible way, here’s how your current Philadelphia Flyers stack up against that new cap number. [BSH] *The Coyotes are $18m away from the cap floor. Perhaps we could interest them in a…
Once upon a time in the annual SB Nation NHL Mock Draft, we here at Broad Street Hockey were forced to sit on the sidelines and watch as all of our friends at the other blogs made their picks. That’s all changed in the last few years, though — and this year, it’s even more…
For the first time in about a week, the vote on our community draft board wasn’t even all that close. Sarnia center Pavel Zacha was your leader on the board, picking up an outright majority of the votes with 52 percent of the overall share to take the No. 12 spot. A lot of the…
*So this Lawson Crouse fellow…is he really worth of a top-ten pick? [Along The Boards] *More Lawson Crouse. We should probably know a lot about this kid. [NHL Numbers] *You’ve all voted and Timo Meier fills out the top-13 on our community draft board. [BSH] *A look at who might drop out of the top…