Aaron Vickers

Editorial Manager, International

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Game 2.

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This'll be nothing new, but Petey Pablo as a goal song for the Hurricanes is just chef's kiss. #StanleyCup

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Tone set.

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Game 1. #StanleyCup

📍Raleigh

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@SEllisHockey Emilioooooo

[Tom Gazzola @TomGazzola]

Today is Ben’s birthday and proceeds from sales at participating Popeyes locations in Northern Alberta will go to the Ben Stelter Foundation.

My lunch plans are set!

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The alley and the oop.

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You'll be hard-pressed to show me a nicer pass than that McNabb-Stone connection. Wow.

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Game 4.

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The number of 'loud environment' notices my watch has given me at T-Mobile is not insignificant.

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Not sure if you're aware of this but the building in Vegas can get REALLY loud.

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Game 3.

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Won't lie. This is some fun hockey.

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Game 1.

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No Makar for the Avalanche in Game 1 of the Western Final versus Vegas. Lehkonen will, however, make his return. He was injured midway through Colorado’s second-round series against the Wild.

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📍: Denver

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@SEllisHockey No Conklins yet?

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Very sad to hear. If you ever had the chance to chat, or even exchange emails with Johan, you could feel hispassion through any and all interactions. Thoughts go out to his family and his Elite Prospects family.

[Elite Prospects @eliteprospects]

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Johan Nilsson, the founder of Elite Prospects and the person whose curiosity and passion for hockey planted the seed for everything we have built together.

Born on the 9th of April 1981, Johan founded Elite Prospects in December 1999 at just 18 years old. What started as a vision driven by a deep love of hockey grew into the world’s leading hockey platform, a testament to the kind of person he was. Johan had a rare combination of qualities: sharp intellect, deep knowledge, and a kindness that made everyone around him feel valued.

He could dive into the most complex problems with calm and clarity, and he brought that same thoughtfulness to the people he worked with every day. For the past nine years, Johan faced a battle with colon cancer with the same calm and strength that defined everything he did.

His love of hockey was never just about the game. It was about understanding it fully, honestly, and in all its detail. That drive is woven into the DNA of Elite Prospects, and it will continue to shape the future of what we do.

To know Johan was to be quietly inspired by him. We are all immensely grateful that we got to work alongside someone like him. Our deepest condolences go to his family and loved ones. He will be greatly missed, by all of us and by the global hockey community. Johan leaves behind his beloved wife and two children, aged two and eight.

[Mike Morreale @mikemorrealeNHL]

Schaefer is the youngest Calder Trophy winner in NHL history & the first unanimous Calder recipient since Teemu Selanne (WPG) received first-place votes on all 50 ballots cast after his historic 76-goal season in 1992-93.

[Aaron Vickers @AAVickers]

The only Vickers I'm aware of with 95 skating...

[Daniel Gee @DanielGScouting]

The @WHLGiants have selected Eli Vickers and Brayden Jugnauth at 3rd and 4th overall, respectively.

Vickers is a dynamic, shifty, left-shot defender. He's an advantage creator & offensive driver.

Jugnauth is a deadly shooter and high-end thinker.

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