Category: The Best of Arctic Ice Hockey

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What Scouts Said About the 1988 Draft Class

By TE | Feb 19th 2019 | 9 min read |

I hate to throw out another of these on the impression that I'll have them all into the 1990s; admittedly, I only have the goods for this draft cl...

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The Shifts that Changed the Game: The Defection

By TrevorMaughan | Feb 19th 2019 | 9 min read |

The year was 1988. Stephen Hawking had just written his best-selling book A Brief History of Time. Gasoline was only .91 cents a gallon. Miami Sound M...

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What Scouts Said About the 1987 Draft Class

By TE | Feb 19th 2019 | 8 min read |

Sometimes, when you're farting around on the web you unearth a gem. This is one of those times. A number of you might know I was snooping around f...

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Goon ice-time or what coaches really think of their fight-first players

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 31 min read |

Tom Tango and I wrote this piece a while ago, but today seemed as good a day as any to post it. START 1979 was a momentous year for professional hocke...

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Jets Individual Performances Compared to Last Year

By GrahamVerch | Feb 19th 2019 | 6 min read |

I got a good suggestion in my last post to look at the Jets individual performances compared to last year. Here it is: 2011/12 2010/11 Player Total Po...

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Defining Moments: The day my dreams died

By TrevorMaughan | Feb 19th 2019 | 10 min read |

Throughout our lifetime, we all encounter a series of defining moments which will effectively sculpt who we are personally, professionally, and spirit...

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Does it take different amounts of time to assess a player's talent?

By gabrieldesjardins | Feb 19th 2019 | 3 min read |

Phil Birnbaum was pretty amazed by my piece about Dustin Brown’s penalty-drawing performance and how much it has been worth to the LA Kings. Not...

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The Shifts that Changed the Game: Butterfly Goaltending

By TE | Feb 19th 2019 | 6 min read |

After my initial post on the impact of curved blades, I forged ahead looking at game footage of what I refer to as the "heightened game" (me...

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The Shifts that Changed the Game: The Curved Stick Blade

By TE | Feb 19th 2019 | 5 min read |

One of the perks of NHL Gamecentre (plug! plug!!!) is that you also have the opportunity to access the "NHL Vault", which includes a number ...

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Evander Kane's Historical Comparables

By RobertVollman | Feb 19th 2019 | 6 min read |

All of these are forwards who were drafted high, started their careers early, and had statistics similar to Evander Kane’s: Season GP G A PTS PP...