Instant Classic Between the USA and Russia
The Americans record against Russia in the knock-out round was 0-7 going into their semifinal match-up. The US was also facing the daunting task of beating the same team twice…
Ilya Samsonov
2017 WJC Team Russia Preview
Team Russia will enter the 2017 World Junior Championship as one of the contenders for the gold medal, as tradition dictates. Being the country with the most overall success in…
Andrey Makarov Not Happy In Rochester
In his fifth season in North America, Buffalo Sabres goalie Andrey Makarov hasn’t secured himself a spot in the NHL. In the big league he played only one game thus…
Midseason Rankings: Washington’s Ten Best Prospects
What else is there to say with the Washington Capitals this year? They are not only the best team in the league, but this year’s iteration has a chance of…
Prospects, Former NHLers Highlight 2015 KHL Stats Report
2015 just became history and the KHL, through its official site, published a very interesting statistical report. The report includes many interesting stats and is very detailed, albeit in Russian…
2016 WJC Team Russia Preview
As tradition wants, Team Russia will bring a very good team to the WJC. As it was the case in the latest few years, the Russians will have a good…
THW’s List Of Prospects Playing In The KHL (15-16 edition)
In the 2014-15 season, a total of 26 prospects will skate in the KHL (or in their affiliate teams in the VHL or MHL). Many good Russian players this summer left…
Hockey’s Next Ones: Top 30 NHL Goalie Prospects
With the Top 100 NHL Prospects (Skaters) now in the books, we take aim at the masked men. Who are the next wave of potential impact goalie prospects set to invade…
A Numerical Look at the Capitals’ Draft Class
As we get into free agency, the dust is still settling on what just happened in Sunrise, Florida. The Capitals only had five picks to work with coming into the…
No New Top-6 Forward Yet As Capitals Pick Siegenthaler, D-Men
During the just completed NHL Draft, the Washington Capitals traded their 62nd and 113th picks for the 57th overall selection and chose defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler of the Swiss NLA’s Zurich…
Caps Draft a Goalie … Is Something Up Their Sleeve?
The Washington Capitals said all along that they would take the best player available with the 22nd pick in the 2015 NHL draft. Most people didn’t think that would be…
Ranking the Russians: Capitals First-Round Picks
By selecting Ilya Samsonov, a big, athletic goalie from Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League, the Capitals picked a Russian player in the first round for the eighth time…