ST. Wholesale Magic Jerseys . CATHARINES, Ont. - NHL Central Scoutings mid-season rankings are out, and to no ones surprise Connor McDavid is at the top.The Erie Otters centre is the runaway favourite to be selected first overall at the 2015 NHL Draft.Its cool, (but) it really doesnt mean anything, McDavid said. You dont dream about being ranked No. 1 at the mid-term rankings. Its all about whats down the line here and at the end of the day its all about what teams and what GMs have to say about you.Its hard to find bad things to say about McDavid, who has 60 points (21 goals and 39 assists) in 23 Ontario Hockey League games this season. He broke a bone in his right hand during a game in November but returned to action at the world junior hockey championship last month and helped Canada win a gold medal.McDavid was ranked ahead of American forward Jack Eichel (Boston University) in the list of top draft-eligible skaters from North America. Boston College defenceman Noah Hanifin, Kingston Frontenacs forward Lawson Crouse and Otters centre Dylan Strome rounded out the top five.I try not to look at that, but obviously its always there and youre always going to see it, said Crouse, who was also on Canadas gold-medal-winning world junior team. Its a privilege, but I still have to earn that spot.The OHLs leading scorer, Mitchell Marner of the London Knights, is ranked seventh.I think everyones (going to) kind of take a look at them, Marner said as he prepared to play in the CHL top prospects game Thursday. Everyone wants to know what the kind of placement is right now. I think its nice to see what place everyone is.Swedish defenceman Oliver Kylington was the top-ranked skater from Europe. Finnish right-winger Mikko Rantanen, who impressed at the world juniors, held the No. 2 position.Barrie Colts netminder Mackenzie Blackwood was the top-ranked North American goaltender. He is 20-7-1 this season with a 2.81 goals-against average and .915 save percentage in 29 appearances.Im excited about it, but theres still a lot of work to be done, Blackwood said. Nothings happened yet. It just means youre on the right track, so you just have to stick with it.The mid-season rankings feature the top 210 skaters and 35 goaltenders in North America as well as the top 112 skaters and 11 goaltenders from Europe.The 2015 draft will be held June 26-27 at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. Authentic Evan Fournier Jersey . Hawkins severely sprained his left ankle while making a diving catch during training camp and went on injured reserve with a designation he could return midway through the season. He was back at practice Wednesday. Authentic Penny Hardaway Jersey . In question is whether 26-year-old Matt Frattin will be on it. A a€?mediocrea€? training camp, as Carlyle put it earlier this week, has Frattin lingering nervously on the bubble at the end of the exhibition season, pushed out of a likely job by Brandon Kozun, the small, but feisty winger determined to make the NHL for the first time. http://www.cheapmagicjerseysauthentic.c … gov-jersey .com) - The Carolina Hurricanes placed defenseman John-Michael Liles on injured reserve Tuesday.One of the biggest question marks heading into the 2014-2015 season concerned the Ottawa Senators, and whether or not they would be able to rebound from a weirdly disappointing season one year ago. Last year’s team only missed the post-season by five points, but it never felt that close – a lot was made about the slide in goaltending being a big factor in Ottawa’s regression, but just as vital was Ottawa’s inability to translate possession into goals, or shots on goal, for that matter. Paul MacLean’s had three decent-to-very-good possession teams during his tenure, but all of those teams have had a weird commonality – a sharp distinction between their Shot% (percentage of shots on goal taken by the team) and Corsi% (percentage of all shot attempts taken by the team). In Ottawa’s case, not so much. Shots vs. Corsi Shot% Corsi% 2011-12 50.7% 52.3% 2012-13 52.2% 53.6% 2013-14 49.9% 52.4% A popular theory as to why this disparity exists is that Ottawa struggles far more than their opposition at cleanly exiting the defensive zone. In Ottawa’s case, this makes sense for a variety of reasons. Tyler Dellow – to cite one example – noticed last season that Ottawa blocked an extremely small percentage of shot-attempts relative to the rest of the league. It’s quite possible that Ottawa’s not doing this by design, and that constant turnovers have created a situation where they just are infrequently in position to deter shots on goal against. This season doesn’t look much different than last in that sense. Ottawa’s allowed a whopping 38.07 shots against per 60 at even-strength, better only than Buffalo as of Wednesday afternoon. Part of the massive total is again because Ottawa’s only blocked about 17% of total shot-attempts against; the league average is generally around 25.7%. The only saving grace is that Ottawa’s goaltenders stopped 96.5% of those shots on their three-game road-trip, which allowed them to pick up a pair of victories. So, what you have here is a doubly-concerning problem. Ottawa already plays an extremely high-event game at both ends of the rink. In their end, some of those shot-attempts are materializing into shots, likely because defensive zone exits are an issue. And, a few of those shots – which may ordinarily be blocked in a normal five-on-five setting – are turning into goals against. Getting back to the defensive zone exit issues a bit: I’ve long argued that Ottawa’s biggest problem is that they are way, way too reliant on Erik Karlsson to do just about everything. Hockey analysts have lauded him for years as the most dynamic offensive defenseman, but one of the best parts of his game that really isn’t captured in the publicly-available data is his ability to flee the defensive zone with control. What I did was track zone exits through Ottawa’s first three games, and threw them into the table below. I’ll note that the data only includes performance from the first and second period of each game – I generally omit third periods because they are swamped in score effects and teams radically adjust their pace, structure, and systems late in games. Here, DZ Fail Rate indicates the percentage of times the defender was directly responsible for a turnover in the defensive zone. NZ Fail Rate indicates the percentage of times the defender only succeeded in getting the puck out of the defensive zone. Authentic Aaron Gordon Jersey. Success rate indicates the percentage of times the defender was responsible for a successful exit -- his team maintaining possession as they rush through the neutral zone. Senators Defensive Zone Exits Defenceman DZ Fail Rate NZ Fail Rate Success Rate Jared Cowen 52.3% 23.8% 23.8% Chris Phillips 23.5% 17.6% 58.8% Cody Ceci 30.4% 34.7% 34.7% Patrick Wiercioch 14.3% 57.1% 28.5% Eric Gryba 35.0% 25.0% 40.0% Erik Karlsson 15.1% 21.2% 63.6% Mark Borowiecki 25.0% 25.0% 50.0% Here are the raw totals: Senators Defensive Zone Exit Totals Defenceman DZ Failures NZ Failures Successful Exits Jared Cowen 11 5 5 Chris Phillips 8 6 20 Cody Ceci 7 8 8 Patrick Wiercioch 1 4 2 Eric Gryba 7 5 8 Erik Karlsson 5 7 21 Mark Borowiecki 3 3 6 If you want to do the quick math here, Ottawa’s defensemen have turned the puck over in the defensive zone 42-times in six periods. 38 more times, they’ve only done enough to clear the zone. A lot of times, this sort of play only temporarily buys time – it’s obviously better than a clean defensive zone turnover, but there’s a good chance the opposition is going to collect the puck with structure and rush right back into the zone. So, that’s 80 dead plays of varying failure that can be directly attributed to the blue-line in just 137 five-on-five minutes. The group as a whole is again disappointing – most noticeably that of Jared Cowen, who has already become a regular fixture in the press box. There’s a separately obvious issue that the team just places way too much burden on Erik Karlsson to get them out of the danger areas on the back-end. Let’s, as a third exercise, look at Ottawa defenders and Erik Karlsson separately here. Karlsson vs. Rest of Sens Defence Defenceman DZ Fail Rate NZ Fail Rate Success Rate Ottawa defenders 31.6% 26.4% 42.0% Erik Karlsson 15.1% 21.2% 63.6% The turnover rates are astounding. And let’s remember here that the ‘Ottawa defenders’ group is being buoyed by an improbably sharp start from Chris Phillips. Phillips was fantastic at taking some of the pressure off of Karlsson on the team’s inaugural road trip, but it’s impossible to expect that to continue – there are simply too many miles on the Phillips vehicle, and he’s far better suited at this point in his career in a second or third-pairing role. Phillips might turn in a decent season, but at some point, his numbers will inevitably turn downward. This is precisely why Ottawa needs significant (and rapid) improvement from young defenders Patrick Wiercioch and Cody Ceci – both of whom are expected to log decent minutes this season. If that improvement doesn’t materialize, Ottawa could again be on the outside looking in come playoff time. 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