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Tonight: Brandon Wheat Kings v London Knights 5pm pacific 8 pm eastern On NHLN

Sustr was good in the offensive end last night and Kucherov is a stud.

um, well Canada had something to say about that

How many birds will die? Just messin, there was a story back when it was starting construction some group was pissed because of all the windows and the birds flying into them and dying.

I just came here to say this

Tonight: Red Deer Rebels vs Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 5 pm pacific 8pm eastern on NHLN

Thank you Rakish, I like reading your write ups

Meier was very noticable all over the ice

u tell me

Is it me or is there an echo in this thread?

Thornton more wizardry, little late probably.

Blues 4th line just took a beating for that goal

helpless Fabbri got rocked damn Whoa what a play at the San Jose goalmouth After 1 the Blues look like they came to play tonight. They're the better team so far.

Blues are playin a high note tonight Jones made one heck of a save there tho

Brouwer wasted Hertl Watch the 4th line of the Blues Brodziak Pajarvi Jaskin score tonight

Smooth skating, mobile guy in a decent sized frame. Sounds like he can help in Roch.

Awesome, just awesome pics and locales. This thread is inspiring me to get out and shoot more, thanks.

part of me wonders if Samson can help him figure it out. Wouldn't wanna anchor samson down tho if it doesn't work

Markus Niemeläinen looks like a late 1st to mid 2nd round pick. Strong defensive game, strong skater but lacks high end speed. Heres some ranks: THW War Room Rankings: 38 ISS: Unranked Future Considerations: Unranked Bob Mckenzie (TSN): 33 Craig Button (TSN): 33 HockeyProspect.com: Unranked Pike’s Picks: 44 Consensus: Unranked Maybe he lasts till the 3rd? All fin 3rd round in 2016, cmon GMTM.

Nice write up on Otto Mäkinen on http://thehockeywriters.com/here's a quote on him "He’s a playmaking center with big-game experience who has been Finland’s top dog at the last handful of U18 tournaments, anchoring the top line and top power play unit. Makinen can thread the needle and get pucks through passing lanes with accuracy, and will dig into the trenches to win puck battles." Some other highlights: Makinen has good size and is hard to knock off the puck as he uses his reach to protect the puck. He is a strong skater and uses his powerful first strides to get rid of opponents while rushing through the neutral zone. He has a decent understanding of his defensive responsibilities and backchecks well. Makinen uses his reach to interrupt passes and is often on the ice to kill penalties due to his advanced defensive zone game. Furthermore, Makinen is a strong face-off player and due to his two-way game, he can be used to win key face-offs in the offensive as well as the defensive zones. Plenty of 3rd round picks available, definitely worthy of using one on him.

Janne Koukkanen, Tarmo Reunanen ,Aapeli Rasanen , Eetu Tuulola ,Otto Somppi, Otto Makinen, Markus Niemelainen and Veini Vehvilainen are all draft eligible Fins. None of these prospects were rated as high picks going into the season, not sure how they grade out now. I don't know much about any of them but as a group Finland has been playing well internationally so I wonder how that will translate to the draft?

Draft some Finns, seems like they are the best hockey players in the world right now.

For that particuliar quote age doesn't matter

Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Brandon Wheat Kings tonight on NHLN at 4:30pm pacific/7:30pm eastern

6-2 final. Red Deer didn't play too bad really, all of the goals came in the last 5 minutes of the first 2 periods. In the 3rd London kinda cruised. Marner 5 pts, Dvorak 4pts, Tkachuk 10 shots. Tkachuk only had one assist even though he had several nice chances from in close. Martanet is an interesting D for London, later round guy.