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Golden: A retrospective on the CHL’s origins and birth 50 years ago
One may have wondered why I elected to launch a month-long Canadian Hockey League history series this May specifically. By end of day, their question was likely answered if they were attentive to junior hockey-related feeds. Yesterday marked the CHL’s golden anniversary, as the official announcement of its formation was made fifty years prior to… Read more
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Dominant despair: The successful, yet brief and drama-filled history of the Detroit Junior Red Wings
In the present day, the J. Ross Robertson Cup final commences tonight, between two historic franchises by way of a showdown between the juggernaut of contemporary times – the London Knights – and the league’s most decorated team in the form of the Oshawa Generals. This is a rematch of last season’s sweep by the… Read more
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Liam’s CHL Corner: The last step before the grand convergence
Ideally, this would have been split up into three different articles for each league as it was for round one. However, I consolidated it into one yet again in the interest of time as I am attempting to get this out before the WHL Draft begins at 7:00 PM ET. Hopefully, this provides enough detail.… Read more
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Black Stitch Hockey PWHL Production Model 2024-2025
Well, the time has finally come as the 2024-2025 PWHL regular season has reached its conclusion. As all of the games have been played, I have all of the data to generate a complete and balanced production model based on the Bader system from Hockeyprospecting.com. Simply, after a series of calculations, every player is plotted… Read more
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PWHL Expansion Round-up: Pros and Cons of Vancouver and Seattle
After months and months of anticipation, the PWHL has confirmed its expansion into the Vancouver and Seattle markets with expansion teams currently dubbed as PWHL Vancouver and PWHL Seattle respectively. There has been much speculation about other markets that made sense for the PWHL in its infancy for new markets, such as Quebec… Read more
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Liam’s CHL Corner: And then there were twelve
I was quite busy with work and academics this week, so my output covering the totality of the second round (and the beginning of the third) slowed to a crawl and eventually evaporated. I will attempt to give this as thorough of a treatment as possible to make up for lost time. OHL: Eastern Conference:… Read more