Neate Sager
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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CHL Notebook: Rating the underdogs’ comeback chances
Here is the quick-and-dirty analysis of which CHL underdogs could come back to create a competitive series. → Read More
OHL playoff preview: Round 1 matchups stocked with draft prospects
The two-conference playoff format in the OHL is far from perfect, but scouts will probably love the pairings with potential NHL first-round choices on both sides. → Read More
CHL Notebook: 8 games that will define the final week
The closest that junior puck gets to anarchism is during the final days of the regular season. → Read More
CHL Notebook: What each league's playoff format says about it
What does each CHL league's playoff format say about it? Should the OHL Western champs actually want a matchup with Michael Dipietro? These and more in the CHL Notebook. → Read More
CHL Notebook: European goalies could be back in Import Draft
Four years after the decision to ban European goalies from the CHL Import Draft, the league is looking at the rule again... and the Europeans could be back. That plus angry coaches, a record-setter in Rimouski, the Canadian NHL team prospect of the week and one name you really need to know. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Vilardi feeling right at home with the Frontenacs
Gabriel Vilardi figures he’s ahead of the game, as far as being a prodigy who is well-adjusted to hockey’s workaday reality is concerned. → Read More
CHL Notebook: How major junior hockey's rich stay that way
The usual suspects don’t die, they just regenerate. In the CHL's case, look no further than the London Knights, Windsor Spitfires and Brandon Wheat Kings. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Stakes get higher in the OHL at trade deadline
For sheer entertainment value, the willingness of a quartet of Ontario Hockey League’s general managers to trade it all for just a little more has made the lead-up to the league’s deadline go to 11. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Aaron Luchuk provides window into being traded
Last week, when OHL goal-scoring leader Aaron Luchuk was sent from the Windsor Spitfires to the Barrie Colts, the overage centre said goodbye in quite a special way. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Team Canada hopeful Cody Glass shines in D-zone
The stat that Cody Glass might take the most pride in is the Portland Winterhawks’ tally in the goals-against column. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Kyrou focused on leading surprising Sting
At the tail end of 2016-17, the Sting beat the Windsor Spitfires twice and also had a regular-season win against Erie. That has carried over into breaking to the front of the pack in the first six weeks of a new season. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Let the Vitalii Abramov bidding war begin
With Gatineau not projected for a huge year, the Olympiques could have their doors blown off with a blockbuster trade offer for Vitalii Abramov. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Import goalie ban needs revisiting
If the import goalie ban isn’t improving the CHL product or solving systemic issues with developing goalies, then it should be revisited. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Two controversial plays define start of WHL final
Comparing what are likely the two most watched plays from the first two games of the WHL final is like comparing apples to grapes, but Keegan Kolesar's cheap shot and Turner Ottenbreit's check on Adam Brooks have defined the series so far. → Read More
WHL Final Preview: Pats, Thunderbirds could deliver a classic
The Regina Pats and Seattle Thunderbirds open the WHL final Friday night. Both high-octane teams are battling injury concerns, making for some intriguing game-within-the-game elements. The seven key matchups are broken down here. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Brooks injury intensifies Broncos-Pats clash
The cone of silence placed over star players' health status — Regina Pats star Adam Brooks, in this case — makes for some great theatre. → Read More
WHL second-round preview: No. 1 Pats get a Swift challenge
The Regina Pats, who have won 12 consecutive games for just the second time as a WHL franchise, get the second round underway against the Swift Current Broncos on Thursday night. → Read More
CHL Notebook: The Everett-Victoria marathon, by the numbers
The contest broke the CHL's longest-game record (heretofore Hull-Victoriaville, 1999) by five minutes and 25 seconds and added 14:40 to the WHL standard (Kamloops-Kootenay, 2003). And that's just the beginning of the bizarre numbers that put the game into context. → Read More
WHL Playoff Preview: Pats, Tigers lead the pack
The WHL playoffs are set to begin, so we break down the outlook for each team that qualified. → Read More
CHL Notebook: Thunderbirds' Barzal taken off ice amid mumps concern
The Seattle Thunderbirds are no doubt braced for the worst while hoping that Mathew Barzal only has the flu, as the mumps outbreak that has touched the hockey industry has affected the WHL's best playmaker. → Read More