Portland Winterhawks News & Stories

The always-intriguing CHL Import Draft is in the book, and this one was particularly interesting with new rules and some twists.

An offensive defender if there ever was one, Luca Cagnoni has been thriving as a first-year pro. Victor Nuño has the details

Learn everything you need to know about the 2024-25 WHL season ahead of Friday's season openers

March's WHL Stock Watch highlights the play of Matthew Savoie, Tyson Jugnauth, Emitt Finnie, Atley Calvert, Jakub Dvořák, and Vojtech Port.

Mitch Brown, Greg Balloch, and Lauren Kelly team up to break down this year's best offerings in CHL free agency with scouting reports, tools grades, and player rankings.

The EP Rinkside panel have updated their CHL Power Rankings for the month of January, and there's a new No. 1.

The EP Rinkside team has ranked the 10 best teams in the CHL.

Mitch Brown breaks down the moves from the 2024 CHL trade deadlines as teams start to eye a trip to Saginaw for the Memorial Cup.

The December WHL Stock Watch zeroes in on the play of Conor Geekie, Josh Davies, Joshua Ravensbergen, Carter Sotheran, and Adam Titlbach.

Victor Nuno breaks down the history and predicts the future for San Jose Sharks' defensive prospect, Luca Cagnoni as he continues to rip it up in his post-draft campaign.

The EP Rinkside scouts have released their first CHL Power Ranking of the season.

The November WHL Stock Watch zeroes in on the performances of Denton Mateychuk, Jagger Firkus, Zac Funk, Ondřej Becher, Terik Parascak, Noah Chadwick, Nate Danielson, and Marek Alscher.

Mitch Brown, David St-Louis, Daniel Gee, Lauren Kelly, and Greg Balloch team up to break down the top free agent options in the CHL this season.

Mitch Brown takes a look at a wild week in the CHL where picks and prospects were dealt at an alarming pace.

The Elite Prospects scouting team has put together their first draft ranking of the season for the 2023 NHL Entry Draft, with scouting reports on their top 32 players.

The WHL is a hotbed for talent – there’s no denying that. It’s especially true this season, with an exceptional group of draft-eligible talent headlined by Connor Bedard. This early-season...

The latest installment in the Scout's Notebook series looks at three small-role prospects who could immediately outperform their draft position as they move up in the hockey world.

The subject of today's Rookie Mid-Term is Carolina Hurricanes winger Seth Jarvis. EP Rinkside's Mitch Brown looks at how the 5-foot-10 forward creates at the NHL level with physicality and adaptability as a rookie, and what it means for his projection.

A New Year can bring about new hope, or re-newed hope depending on how you look at it. It's a time to reflect, to take stock and attempt to shift...

The New York Islanders boast the 31st-ranked prospect pool in the NHL, and they're the subject of this writeup for the EP Rinkside NHL prospect pool rankings.

Thomas Harley of the Texas Stars ranks second in scoring among AHL defencemen this season. Patrick Williams has more on the 2019 first-round pick navigating the AHL.

Without a first or second-round pick in October’s draft, and top prospect Noah Dobson graduating, the New York Islanders find themselves in a peculiar spot — with a prospect pool...

The St. Louis Blues have a type — players who hit. If they don’t hit, they opt for the next best thing — players who have the potential to one...

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...

We’re less than a week away from the draft, so what better time than now to take stock of the best prospects already tied down with an NHL franchise? This...

The CHL has a unique appeal compared to the NHL. Lower-quality hockey, no doubt, but there’s no replacing the insane swings in player and team quality from year to year....

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 second episode of the EliteProspects Podcast with J.D. Burke and Craig Button is live, available wherever you get your podcasts. This week’s program starts with a lengthy discussion about...

The New York Rangers hold the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Representatives from the eight teams participating in Phase 2 of the NHL Draft Lottery...

One might think that two new rankings among a group of five public outlets might not result in a tectonic shift in the landscape of the NHL Draft, but that...

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...

With the conclusion of the 2020 CHL Import Draft today, at least one such event occurred on schedule without a hitch. In June, no less. It’s a complicated process, so...

After months of careful deliberation, the NHL is ready to let the lottery balls spin and forever change the complexion of two or three lucky teams at the annual spectacle...

We’re little over a week away from the NHL Draft Lottery, scheduled for Friday, June 26th, at 8 PM Eastern. So what better time to update our ranking of the...