Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 8/NASL Week 5/USL Week 5 24 Apr 2017So, Anthony Jackson-Hamel has played just 36 minutes for the Montreal Impact so far in 2017. He has three goals. That’s a return of a goal every 12 minutes. What does this mean? That Anthony Jackson-Hamel is the greatest player to ever play in MLS. Take your Landon Donovans and Dwayne De Rosarios and Jaime Morenos and Chris Wondolowskis … …
Red rebound 18 Apr 2017History has shown us that teams that get to championship games and lose, well, they tend to really struggle the year after that. Statistically speaking, Toronto FC’s season was doomed before it even began. So, how do the Reds buck the trend and make it back to MLS Cup — and win?
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 7/NASL Week 4/USL Week 4 17 Apr 2017Maybe this weekly feature should be renamed “What Orlando City SC did this week.”
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 6/NASL Week 3/USL Week 3 10 Apr 2017At this time last year (the conclusion of week 6 of the MLS season), 16 Canadians had each seen at least of minute of action for their respective MLS clubs. This year, the number is down slightly to 14.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 5/NASL Week 2/USL Week 2 3 Apr 2017Former Canadian U-17 and U-20 player of the year Ballou Jean-Yves Tabla scored his first MLS goal on Saturday, giving the Montreal Impact a 2-1 lead that it would later relinquish and have to settle for a tie in Chicago.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 4/NASL Week 1/USL Week 1 27 Mar 2017Major League Soccer’s skeleton weekend schedule didn’t feature any Canadian players, so the big stories of the weekend were the launches of the NASL and USL seasons — both leagues now sharing the Division-2 designation. And the key storyline out of the second division is that the San Francisco Deltas of the NASL outpaced the USL’s TFCII and WFC2 when …
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 3 20 Mar 2017It’s a given that Canadians love to head to Florida — OK, maybe a little less so since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States — and that has become evident in our weekly ranking of minutes played by Canadians in the North American pro soccer leagues.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 2 13 Mar 2017Toronto FC created a bit of a stir this past weekend, when the Reds started no Canadians for Saturday’s road date in Philadelphia.
Intrinsically Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 1 6 Mar 2017But, we are bringing back our look at what teams are giving Canadians the most minutes in MLS and, when they kick off, North America’s two division-two leagues. And, the big Canadian focus is on… Orlando City.
Canadian GAs fall to the second round: Reid goes to FC Dallas, Shome goes to the Impact 13 Jan 2017But, despite Reid being a standout scorer in League1 Ontario and Shome being the only player in the draft class with significant professional experience — with 26 NASL games played — they both fell to the late stages of the second round of Friday’s SuperDraft.
