Sean Farrell News & Stories

Despite the graduation of Lane Hutson, the Canadiens boast an elite prospect pool with a balance of elite skill and difficult-to-play-against depth, assembled to fill all roles a contending lineup needs, top to bottom.

David St-Louis takes you through the Montréal Canadiens third-ranked prospect pool going into the 2024-25 NHL season with scouting reports on its 27 best prospects.

David St-Louis reviews the performance of each Eastern Conference team's top prospects in the 2023-24 preseason.

David St-Louis breaks down the Montréal Canadiens' 12th-ranked prospect pool with scouting reports and tools grades on their 23 (23!!!) best prospects.

The Elite Prospects 2023 NHL prospect ranking countdown begins with a look at the 100th to 51st-best skater prospects.

Ryan Lambert previews the 2023 men's Beanpot, one that could finally see Harvard and Northeastern meet in the championship match for the first time in tournament history.

Who has been the best player in college hockey this season? Is it your favorite team's best player?

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings continue with a look at the Montréal Canadiens and their seventh-ranked system, complete with scouting reports, tools grades, etc. on their 15 best prospects.

EP Rinkside lead scout David St-Louis starts our countdown of the top 100 affiliated prospects with a look at the players ranked 100-51 for this year's series.

EP Rinkside's resident college hockey expert Ryan Lambert recaps the first day of action at the NCAA tournament

The United States and Canada are using college players to fill out their rosters at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing. Ryan Lambert looks at the playoff picture with so many high-end players out of action during the games.

David St-Louis takes a look at three Montreal Canadiens prospects, two that appear to be on the fast track to the NHL and another that might be lagging behind.

Matt Coronato is off to a scorching hot start with the Harvard Crimson, with eight points in his first seven games of the season as a Freshman. Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis takes you into the Film Room™️ to look at Coronato's development.

The Montréal Canadiens boast the NHL's sixth-best prospect pool according to our Elite Prospects scouts, and they're the subject of today's writeup in the EP Rinkside prospect pool rankings countdown.

The EliteProspects Podcast with J.D. Burke and Craig Button returns, available wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode, our hosts interview the Chicago Steel's Noelle Needham, and discuss the Tim Peel incident that set the hockey world on fire last week.

The Anaheim Ducks and their 12th-ranked prospect pool in the NHL might be as unfairly maligned a team as you’ll find in this entire process. The future is Orange County...

No two draft picks are created equal. That’s as apparent in the immediate aftermath of any draft as it is five-plus years down the road, even if the true yield...

It only took about eight hours on top of yesterday’s three-or-so, but we finally, almost mercifully, reached the conclusion of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. 217 draft picks later, the...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. More than a year spent tracking the progress of hundreds of players, consulting with industry insiders, running the numbers, and it all...

There isn’t another team in all of hockey like the USHL’s Chicago Steel. When the pandemic brought their season to a halt, they’d just won 13 straight, vaulting themselves to...

We’re less than two weeks away from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, which means it’s time for yet another draft ranking. After the EliteProspects team published their final ranking and...

We’re exactly two weeks away from the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, so what better time for another draft ranking than now? While we position ourselves as a united front in...

The title just about says it all, right? Wrong. Desperately wrong. The EliteProspects 2020 NHL Draft Guide is available, but we haven’t had a chance to let you know what...

The appetite for NHL Draft coverage expands with every year. Where the main course centred on the first round alone once sufficed, our audience now demands a seven-plate meal with...