Tag: Draft

2003 to 2017 NHL Drafts Top-10 redone

Published on by J.D. Lagrange2 Comments

This Coronavirus is causing quite the commotion everywhere in the world, including in Canada and the United States. You can’t turn a TV Channel, listen to the radio or browse the internet without hearing about it… and that’s a good thing. Just recently, the NHL announced the postponement of the NHL Draft which was supposed to be held in Montreal this year. With local product Alexis Lafrenière ranked number one, it would have been a great venue for his to be named to a NHL team. The date and format are still up in the air at the time of writing this, as is the rest of the season and the playoffs.

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What is a Rebuild? A Reset? A Retool? Know the Differences

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NHL teams and their terms. We’re going through a complete rebuild. No wait… I think it’s a reset. No, no, we’re doing a retool. In the meantime, fans are debating amongst themselves and through the media, arguing what their favourite team is actually doing. The worst part is that we’re all describing pretty much the same thing. It’s just that we don’t have the same definition of those three often-used expressions. While a rebuild is pretty self-explanatory, the line between that, a reset and a retool can be quite blurry and depending on who you talk to, they will call it differently.

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