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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.

Gonna be a good finish to this series. Sullivan brought a buncha crazed savages out of the locker room in the 3rd. Lightning barely held on.

Theres ur Malkin

Kuch wanted some

6-1 Marner is unreal at this level

In the playoffs no but...Neil, Ratface Marchand, Gallagher to name a few.

Lightning are striking tonight

Drouin stopped one and scored one

Marner 3 points in the 1st, Joulevi 2 London up 3-0 after 1 I cannot vouch for this site but on a google search this came up for streaming http://www.eteamz.com/knightsvsrebelstonights/

Looks like it is on NHLN 5 pm London v Red Deer 8 pm eastern

wizardry

http://www.cbc.ca/m/sports/hockey/nhl/memorial-cup-players-to-watch-1.3589501Some players to watch including Nolan Patrick..Torontos #1 overall pick next year

Sounds like a tough go for the kid

agreed

Memorial Cup starts tonight. Heres the TV schedule so far : Schedule Date Time (EDT) Home Away TV May 20 7:00PM Red Deer Rebels London Knights Sportsnet O, P, W, E May 21 7:00PM Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Brandon Wheat Kings Sportsnet 360 May 22 7:00PM Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Red Deer Rebels Sportsnet O, P, W, E May 23 8:00PM London Knights Brandon Wheat Kings TBA May 24 8:00PM London Knights Rouyn-Noranda Huskies TBA May 25 8:00PM Brandon Wheat Kings Red Deer Rebels TBA May 26 8:00PM Tie Breaker for 3rd place If Necessary TBA May 27 8:00PM Semi Finals #2 vs #3 TBA May 29 TBA Finals #1 vs SF Winner TBA Should be a good tourney with some draft eligible players.

Yes, Martin has been steady Sharks team defense might be the best of the remaining teams

Thornton is a wizard they'll play better next game

This Shark team can play

Donskoi..UDFA not bad for an undrafted guy

this is where im at as well