CHL TopX Show

Welcome to a Special Road to Memorial Cup edition of CHL coast to coast where you’ll get to listen to three conversations I had with players, between the first and second round, looking to make deep runs to the 2025 Memorial Cup in Rimouski. First up is Philadelphia Flyers prospect and London Knights captain Denver Barkey. Then we check in with top draft prospect Caleb Desnoyers from the Moncton W...

We are now less than a week away from the inaugural CHL USA Prospects Challenge presented by Kubota. Last week I sat down with TSN’s Director of scouting, Craig Button to talk about the new event. In my conversation with Craig we discuss the upcoming CHL USA Prospects Challenge, emphasizing the importance of international competition for player evaluation and development. Craig tells us how player...

In our first CHL USA Prospects Challenge edition of the CHL Top 10 Show I recently had the opportunity to talk with one of the captains of the USNTDP U18’s, defenceman Asher Barnett as well as captain of Team CHL, Brampton Steelheads’ star Porter Martone. Martone is off to a hot start for the relocated Steelheads sitting near the top of the O scoring race in goals and points. We chat about the exc...

Welcome to another Road to Memorial Cup edition of the CHL Top 10 Show, this week I chat with a player from each of the leagues that earned sweeps last round. Cam Squires from the Cape Breton Eagles, Trevor Wong from the Saskatoon Blades and Justin Ertel from the North Bay Battalion. Cape Breton’s Cam Squires has four or more points in three games already this post season. He leads the entire CHL...

Welcome to a Road to Memorial Cup edition of the CHL Top 10. This week I chat with players from three different leagues that earned first round sweeps. Riley Heidt from the Prince George Cougars, Jorian Donovan from the Saginaw Spirit and Colby Huggan from the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. Riley tells us how expectations have changed for the Cougars this playoffs, what it’s like playing against friends i...

It’s our final regular season episode of the CHL Top10 Show, and today we have an all OHL episode with assistant coach of the OHL leading London Knights, Dylan Hunter and the leading scorer for the OHL’s Eastern Conference leading Oshawa Generals, Cal Ritchie. Call me superstitious but I wasn’t about to talk to Toronto Maple Leafs prospect Easton Cowan in the midst of a 34 game point streak, so we...

Today I check in with two teams that have been in the Top10 for 19 of 22 weeks. From the top-ranked Baie-Comeau Drakkar it’s Justin Gill and from the 7th ranked Portland Winterhawks it’s Tyson Jugnauth. Now in his fifth season in the QMJHL, first with the Drakkar, Justin Gill is helping pace the CHL’s top team to a franchise record breaking season. The New York Islanders prospect also sits second...

This week we sit down with the QMJHL’s leading point producer and the CHL’s leading goal scorer. It’s Antonin Verreault from the 10th ranked Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and Zac Funk from the fourth ranked Prince George Cougars. Now in his fourth season in the Q and first with the Huskies. We’re getting an opportunity to see what a healthy Antonin Verreault can do for the first time since his rookie camp...

Today we check in with a player that keeps break franchise records and one that’s just getting settled with his new franchise. It’s Saginaw’s Zayne Parekh and Swift Current’s Conor Geekie. It’s hard to believe that Zayne Parekh just turned 18 last week. The right shot defender already holds the Spirit’s single season franchise record for goals and points by a defenceman and is on pace to hit the 1...

Welcome to another episode of the CHL TOP10 Show this week we talk to a pair of WHL stars that have their sights set on extended playoff runs. From the 9th ranked Moose Jaw Warriors Matt Savoie and from the 8th ranked Everett Silvertips Ben Hemmerling. Matt Savoie, after spending three years with the ICE, starting this year in the AHL and NHL followed by a dozen games with the Wild, is settling in...

On this week’s episode of the CHL Top 10 Show a pair of forwards from two of the hottest teams in the CHL stop by for a chat. We’ll hear from Drummondville’s Ethan Gauthier and Saskatoon’s Fraser Minten. Gauthier is in the midst of a career year. His first with the Voltigeurs after an offseason trade brought the Tampa Bay prospect from the Sherbrooke Phoenix to his hometown Drummondville Voltigeur...

Today's episode of the CHL Top 10 show features a pair of high end prospects for the upcoming NHL Draft that will lead the way at the 2024 Kubota Top Prospects game. It’s London Knights’ Sam Dickinson and Spokane Chiefs’ Berkley Catton. Sam Dickinson, the top ranked OHL skater for the NHL Draft, was recently name captain of team red at the Kubota Top Prospects game. The Knights’s blue liner is cur...

Back with another edition of the CHL Top 10 Show and today I was lucky enough to talk to two players eligible for the 2024 NHL Draft in the Soo Greyhounds Owen Allard and Baie-Comeau Drakkar’s Justin Poirier. The Soo’s Owen Allard was a surprise invite to Canada’s camp we talk about what type of player he is, the grind of a 6-month post-surgery recovery; how the Greyhounds have improved this seaso...

This week I chat with Montreal Canadiens prospect Owen Beck from the surprising Peterborough Petes and newly signed LA Kings prospect Kohen Ziemmer from the high octane Prince George Cougars. Owen Beck tells us about their impressive start, why they’re so comfortable playing in extra time, what it’s like playing in the Petes/Gens rivalry and what it’s like playing with and against minor hockey tea...

This week I welcome our first coach to the show and another player that’s making the Seattle Kraken look like draft wizards. It’s Rouyn-Noranda’s Martin Dagenais and Kitchener’s Carson Rehkopf.

As promised today I chat with Editor in chief of The Hockey News, Ryan Kennedy. We discuss some of the top teams in the CHL right now, some surprise players, which 2024 draft eligibles have been impressing, who to keep an eye on in the 2025 draft and what new and really exciting feature is now available at The Hockey News.

It’s the scorers edition of the show where I chat with two guys that seem to be scoring at will right now, that’s Porter Martone of the Mississauga Steelheads and Jagger Firkus of the Moose Jaw Warriors. Mississauga’s Porter Martone has been filling up the highlight reels for both the Steelheads and Team Canada. The recently turned 17-year-old sits third in the OHL with 11 goals, 8 of which have b...

This week I chat with the captain of the CHL’s top ranked Portland Winterhawks as well as last season's QMJHL leading scorer. After making his return to the Q last weekend Jordan Dumais becomes the first returning player as a guest on the show. The Blue Jackets prospect is on the cusp of setting numerous Moosehead franchise records sitting just 18 points, 13 goals and 6 assists back of Brandon Ben...

TSN’s Director of scouting Craig Button talks to us about what makes a good junior hockey team, which teams could potentially join the Saginaw Spirit at the 104th Memorial Cup presented by Kia, Connor Bedard’s impressive start and who might be the next superstar in the CHL.

In our first episode of the season you’ll hear from the GM and captain of Saginaw Spirit who just so happen to be hosts of the 2024 Memorial Cup presented by Dow. Drinkill tells us about his relationship with coach Chris Lazary, how bidding on the Memorial Cup changed the course of a team that features young stars like Michael Misa and Zayne Parekh; how he plans to use all of those draft picks and...

We talk to the two teams that swept their third round series. The 12-0 Quebec Remparts and the 12-2 Winnipeg ICE. ICE captain and Minnesota Wild prospect Carson Lambos has seen this team rise from a 13-win team in 2019 to the Eastern Conference champions. He tells us just how close this group is, how past experiences have shaped this team and what the ICE will have to do to earn a spot at the Memo...

Today I talk to the final two teams that earned sweeps in the second round, the 8-2 Sarnia Sting and the 8-1 Gatineau Olympiques. Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Luca Del Bel Belluz tells us what it’s like to play in Sarnia right now, taking the battle of the 402 to a whole new level and what the Sting will have to do successfully to win against the London Knights. Then, St. Louis Blues prospect Za...

Today I talk to two more teams that have gone a perfect 8-0 after two rounds; the Sherbrooke Phœnix and the Kamloops Blazers. Anaheim Ducks prospect Tyson Hinds tells us about the upcoming challenges against Halifax. Mainly, shutting down the leagues top-3 scorers. What it’s been like watching Joshua Roy take his game to another level and how last year’s semi final loss has prepared them for the n...

Today I talk to two teams that have gone a perfect 8-0 after two rounds; the Quebec Remparts and the Seattle Thunderbirds. Carolina Hurricanes prospect Justin Robidas tells us how the Remparts have been able to execute their game plan so well, how he’s playing some of his best hockey since his trade from Val-d’Or and what they’re going to have to do the the semi final against the Gatineau Olympiqu...

This week I talk to two teams that earned unlikely first round sweeps; the Moose Jaw Warriors and Peterborough Petes. Denton Mateychuk and his Moose Jaw Warriors were favoured to win their 4-5 series against the Lethbridge Hurricanes thanks to a 3-1 season series win. After a 2-1 double overtime game one win no one would have predicted a Warriors sweep. The 4th seeded Peterborough Petes lost their...