Alexander Nikishin News & Stories

The Elite Prospects scouting team breaks down the current Calder Trophy race.

The NHL's top rookies are bringing the heat early this season. See who’s rising, slipping, and stealing the spotlight in Elite Prospects’ updated Calder Trophy power rankings.

David St-Louis ranks eleven of the NHL's top rookie defenders, evaluating how they have performed in the league so far this season.

In the first edition of the Calder Trophy Power Rankings for the 2025-26 NHL season, the Elite Prospects scouts put together a top-10 list of front runners to win Rookie of the Year.

Our scouts take a deeper look at the Carolina Hurricanes prospect pool.

With another summer nearing its end, it's time for our top 100 NHL-affiliated prospect rankings.

The Hurricanes have a roster problem, and the wherewithal to fix it. Whether they actually can is a different question.

Ranking the hockey's best young talent: Who stands out, who’s rising, and what it means for the future.

Cam Robinson is back and he's ranking the top fantasy hockey defensemen for the 2024-25 NHL season.

You had questions. We have answers.

Dylan Griffing takes you through the Carolina Hurricanes' 12th-ranked prospect pool with scouting reports and tools grades on its 15 best prospects.

Mitch Brown, David St-Louis, and J.D. Burke team up to rank the top 100 affiliated prospects ahead of the 2024-25 NHL season.

Lassi Alanen tees up the Carolina Hurricanes' 15th-ranked prospect pool, with scouting reports and tools grades on their 23 best prospects.

The Elite Prospects 2023 NHL prospect ranking countdown continues with the 50th to 26th-best skater prospects.

JFresh looks at the best and worst scenarios for cap space.

The Russia Stock Watch gives you an update on Ivan Demidov, Marat Khusnutdinov, Maxim Fedotov, Nikita Chibrikov, Alexander Nikishin, Danila Yurov, and Mikhail Gulyayev.

Elite Prospects lead scout David St-Louis breaks down the Carolina Hurricanes system ahead of the 2023 NHL trade deadline.

The Russia Stock Watch highlights the play of Ivan Demidov, Alexander Nikishin, Bogdan Trineyev, German Tochilkin, Viktor Neuchev, and Nikolai Makarov.

The Russian regional stock watch is highlighted by Dmitri Simashev's charge to be the best defenceman out of the region in this year's draft.

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings series continues with a look at the Carolina Hurricanes and their 14th-ranked system.

The EliteProspects Podcast with J.D. Burke and Craig Button returns for its seventh episode, this one discussing the early happenings at HockeyCanada’s World Juniors camp, and then getting into a...

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...

Landing the ‘miscellaneous’ tag for this project turned into a high-end value for me. I’m able to pick and choose some of my favourite 2020 NHL Entry Draft prospects from...