Category : TJHN Originals
As COVID Spikes Continue Arena Closures And Game Cancelations Rise
The State of Massachusetts closed ice arenas for two weeks, New Hampshire arenas are closed until October 30th, and reports of player infections are on...
COVID-19 And Voicing Opinions
The other day a good friend of mine called me to discuss the article I wrote on COVID Denial Syndrome. A phrase I just made...
Hockey And COVID Denial Syndrome
I took the last few days off from reading all the emails and texts I get regarding all the hockey programs being effected in one...
Four Openings In Europe To Fill
With the European Junior Hockey season in full swing, teams are now dealing with injuries and call ups to the pro leagues. Hockey Talent Management...
QMJHL Postpones Games Through October 28
It has become all to predictable. The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has suspended play in both of its Quebec-based divisions until at least Oct....
American Players Caught Illegally In Canada
Multiple sources are now reporting that American born players have been caught illegally playing and residing in Canada. Players in two leagues in western Canada...
COVID-19 The Postponements And Rescheduling Begins
With players testing positive for COVID-19, and ever changing State pandemic guidelines, the game postponements and rescheduling has begun. It only took a week. Positive...
Maine Referee Tests Positive For COVID-19 After Working Eight Games
A potential super spreader event, or events took place in Maine over the last week. One referee has tested positive for COVID-19 after working eight...
Eight More QMJHL Players Test Positive
Eight Sherbrooke Phoenix players and staff have tested positive, the league said in a press release today. Those same players who played against the 18...
SPHL Has Five Teams Go Dark
The trickle that will turn into a waterfall. Slowly, very slowly, junior teams who have been delayed will begin to simply go dark due to...
18 Players Test Positive For COVID-19 In QMJHL’s Blainville-Boisbriand
18 players on one team after one week. Now quarantine for two weeks. If other infections are found on other teams sparking quarantines, the worst...
QMJHL Hit By COVID – It Only Took A Few Days
The QMJHL bravely took on the task of starting the season in what many are calling the start of the second wave of COVID-19 in...
TJHN NHL Mock Draft 2020
1 Alexis Lafreniere Ht/Wt:6′ 1″/192 lbsPosition:LWTeam: Rimouski (QMJHL) 2 Tim Stutzle Ht/Wt:5’11″/165 lbsPosition:CTeam: Mannheim (DNL U20) 3 Quinton Byfield Ht/Wt:6′ 4″/214 lbsPosition:CTeam: Sudbury (OHL) 4...
With Dozens Of Teams Not Playing Do You Still Believe It Is Going To Be “OK”?
There are roughly two dozen teams in the United States at the Tier III level who are not playing. Full rosters, and not playing. They...
Is Your Season Delayed Or Cancelled? Junior Hockey Openings In Europe
Many hundreds of players are now realizing that their season is being delayed or cancelled in the United States and Canada. More and more players...
Twin City Thunder Manage COVID-19 Infections
Maine, has been relatively quiet compared to the rest of the United States and the COVID-19 pandemic. As quiet as it has been, it was...
COVID-19 Claims Two Toronto Youth Associations
The life blood of junior hockey is youth hockey players. Without them there is no junior hockey. Without safe playing environments in the Greater Toronto...
Teams Facing Reality – States Where Hockey Can Not Legally Be Played
As we approach October, we approach the end of the road for optimistic thinking and planning. Those leagues who have made announcements, made relocations, and...
SJHL Player Tests Positive For COVID
With the Saskatchewan Health Authority already publicly saying there will be no competitive hockey for quite some time, the SJHL has allowed its teams to...
COVID Claims 72 Year Old Senior League
The WOAA Senior Hockey League began play in the 1948-1949 season. 1948, just think about that for a second. Think about how the world and...