Kendrick 4,724 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) Woah, woah, woah! Don't blink folks we are up to 31 prospects now! Welcome back to another edition of the VHLSC Draft Rankings and analysis. Another week in the books which means another week closer to the 45th VHL Entry Draft. TPE battles are in full effect right now and various other criteria funnels the prospects into different categories. Before we break this week down we will explain this weeks theme and general information. This week we will take a look at each prospects native land and give you a little graphically assisted know-how on what country made who. This year VHLSC added the farthest column to the right on our draft rankings. It is more of a column for curiosities sake than it does actually affect the prospects place in the rankings. After all practice hours are the #1 contributor to the end rankings and mock drafts. The "Nationality" column allows us to view where are top prospects are from. So we thought for pure excitement levels and no more, that we would dive into their countries and find where these youngsters turn up from. However, first we wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't give you this weeks run down. Those 31 prospects we spoke about earlier got up to that number thanks to a few new ones in our rankings. Lucas Zhukenov, Ethan Henderson, Geoff Reid and Super Cock all declared for the VHL Entry Draft. All four of them seem to be on the right path so far as well; having already logged practice hours for development. Our biggest earner this week was goaltender Ryan Price who had an impressive week to say the least. With that impressive week he also became the top prospect to move up in our rankings as he now has reached the 16th position in the rankings. The biggest drop this week was from young M. Nocturne Shamalamalamalon who continues to be missing in action. Keeping with the theme, United States was the country who earned the most amount of practice hours this week. We look forward to next week when more prospects turn it up and maybe more declare! Now onto the meat and potatoes of the rankings; the Geography Lesson! It is no secret Canada turns in some of the best talent in the world. Some of the prospects who are middle of the pack make up our Canadian contingent this season. Here is to hoping they can live up to the beaver loving, maple syrup guzzling country they originate from. Aww yes the land of the free and home of the Atlanta Braves (or something like that). The United States is a powerhouse in the hockey world, much like it's neighbour to the north. This year they feature some prospects also in the middle of the pack and looking to climb. Will the United States feature better prospects than it's 49th parallel lab partner? Well taking a trip around the globe and outside of the North American continent we get a mix of a whole bunch of countries and prospects. Denmark has produced professional ice hockey players before, looks like they are right on course to continue that. Ireland is home of the Leprechauns and Robbie Keane who is currently doing time in Los Angeles (MLS is prison). However they do have two prospects looking to live in Owen Nolan's NHL path. Japan has a pro ice hockey league and does have many claiming to be from there play in professional leagues outside of it as well. This year the current top prospect calls a little Japanese island home during the summer. Over to the land of banks and a country which has a 3 Musketeers motto. Switzerland features a top goalie prospect with a real interesting hometown which is outside the box (or in). Alright at this point we hope we remembered to purchase travellers insurance but after visiting that town in Switzerland, all hope might be lost. Stopping in England, it has never been a huge hockey hotbed but the Victory Hockey League is becoming ever more familiar with the country who gave the world Wayne Rooney. This year they got three prospects filling our board and looking to cause "Aggro" for others. Scandinavia is a massive area of the world and produces nice things like IKEA, hockey players and snipers that Russia can't stand. Usually you'd see way more prospects from this area but having three is good enough for us. For factual purposes we have to mention that Finland don't consider themselves Scandinavian from what we are told, Denmark do though. Also, I have a goldfish but no one really cares about that either. Moving down a notch we hit the Netherlands where they can't seem to make their shoes correctly and Austin Powers is the only movie to get their accent correctly. In the past we have had some Dutch players filter through our drafts, this year we see yet another one. Getting out before we are way too high, we head over to an area where Putin owns everyone. Russia features one of our newest prospects, Kazakhstan features one of our brightest prospects and Ukraine features a prospect which end up being Russian anyways. Our final plane ride takes us on quite the journey. First stop is the land of Oktoberfest and Bratwurst where even if you are 5 years old, you know your beers. One of our newest prospects calls "Deutschland" home during the off-season. Because we don't believe in making life easier, we head over to Israel to check out one of the highest rated goaltender on our list. Before we leave though a man stops and offers us five hollywood blockbuster pirated movies for only five Shekel's (exchange rate that yourself). Last stop on our magical journey is South Korea, the one without Kim Jong-un. We have a lesser known prospect from there who doesn't seem to know the VHL kept going and didn't go for two weeks. *All jokes in this rankings were provided by the worst humour in the world and Wayne Rooney's wife. Edited July 14, 2015 by Kendrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins 3,617 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Nice cartography Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixersfan594 247 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Nice edition! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 5,017 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Woo! The Hamilton bros repping london! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munk 1,298 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Thanks for updating my TPE total even though my player hasn't been updated yet! I appreciate that attention to detail Kendrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,724 Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 Thanks for updating my TPE total even though my player hasn't been updated yet! I appreciate that attention to detail I check update threads too munchkin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahma 1,292 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Finland is not part of Scandinavia, but people still call Finland a Scandinavian country. But Finland is part of Nordic countries though. Tbh, Finnish VHL players should not be part of the Scandinavian Olympic team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 5,017 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Sweet! Finland now part of Western Europe. Valmount to play with Hamilton in the next World Cup Ahma 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eaglesfan036 4,583 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Great work Kendy I like the maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,724 Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 Finland is not part of Scandinavia, but people still call Finland a Scandinavian country. But Finland is part of Nordic countries though. Tbh, Finnish VHL players should not be part of the Scandinavian Olympic team. Yeah I mentioned that with you in mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,549 Posted July 14, 2015 Admin Share Posted July 14, 2015 This is superb, loving the flags and the maps. Shame neither Hamilton is from Hamilton. Henderson is good enough I suppose. And it seems Ireland is home to all Game of Thrones references. Finland is not part of Scandinavia, but people still call Finland a Scandinavian country. But Finland is part of Nordic countries though. Tbh, Finnish VHL players should not be part of the Scandinavian Olympic team. there was a time (when team Scandinavia was known as Team Sweden) when there were enough Finnish players to legitimately have a case for the whole team to be called Team Finland. Sadly it was never meant to be and it stayed Sweden until becoming Scandinavia. Kendrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeafsNation 21 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 Holy shit UNREAL! good job Kendrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahma 1,292 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 This is superb, loving the flags and the maps. Shame neither Hamilton is from Hamilton. Henderson is good enough I suppose. And it seems Ireland is home to all Game of Thrones references. there was a time (when team Scandinavia was known as Team Sweden) when there were enough Finnish players to legitimately have a case for the whole team to be called Team Finland. Sadly it was never meant to be and it stayed Sweden until becoming Scandinavia. Why not just change the name to Team Nordic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Victor 10,549 Posted July 14, 2015 Admin Share Posted July 14, 2015 I don't see why not. #TeamNordicS46 Ahma 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatOneHimself 52 Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) My TPE is actually 49, but I guess this is from yesterdays update. #RyanPriceBeastMode Ryan Price is a beast. Edited July 14, 2015 by GreatOneHimself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendrick 4,724 Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 My TPE is actually 49, but I guess this is from yesterdays update. #RyanPriceBeastMode Ryan Price is a beast. They go from the last update I check before writing it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond_ace 3,106 Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 To think that there was a point in the draft when I was deciding between Wesley Babiy and... (Danger Van Der Merwe) At least I made the right call! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Moderator Baozi 1,635 Posted July 15, 2015 Head Moderator Share Posted July 15, 2015 Loved this article Kendrick. Keep it going! Kendrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boubabi 4,725 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 need more Somalian player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeanSobie 91 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 To think that there was a point in the draft when I was deciding between Wesley Babiy and... (Danger Van Der Merwe) Mistakes were almost made diamond_ace 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamond_ace 3,106 Posted July 18, 2015 Share Posted July 18, 2015 Mistakes were almost made Yeah, Denver had an old player on here that was good before he left, plus I knew him from a football league. I'm actually still surprised he didn't stick around, but definitely happy to have you on board instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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