Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 17/NASL Week 11 (summer break) 28 Jun 2015 With the Canadian women’s national team losing a heartbreaking quarterfinal Saturday at BC Place to the English, this might be the week of weeks where our readers say “oh yeah, I guess MLS had games this weekend. Let me check the phone to see what the scores were.”
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 16/NASL Week 11 (summer break) 21 Jun 2015 The revealing good news/bad news scenario in this week’s Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings is found in this past weekend’s Vancouver Whitecaps match.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 15/NASL Week 11 14 Jun 2015 This weekly update to the minutes-played-by-Canadians list need to be taken with more than a few grains of salt.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 14/NASL Week 10 7 Jun 2015 It was moving day on the Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings.
FC Edmonton: No contact at all with Canadian professional league backers 1 Jun 2015 But, if the league does indeed come to be — and, to be fair, there is still a lot of skepticism out there — the assumption that the North American Soccer League’s Ottawa Fury and FC Edmonton would simply come along for the ride is well, off-base.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 13/NASL Week 9 31 May 2015 Ouimette now has five appearances, four of them starts, for the Red Bulls. He’s played a total of 412 minutes. And that’s significantly more minutes this season than — ahem — all of the Canadians combined on the Impact roster.
Canadian stalemate: Fury shuts out Eddies’ NASL-leading offence 29 May 2015 “Escape” is the appropriate word, because FCE keeper John Smits, making his second start in a row, made two outstanding point-blank second-half saves, to give the Eddies their first clean sheet of the season — in Cup or NASL play.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 12/NASL Week 8 24 May 2015 Off the field, there was some good news as well. FCE’s Allan Zebie, who looks to have claimed a starting fullback spot after making the jump from the academy to the first team this past off-season, was signed to a contract extension that keeps him with the Eddies till 2017. Zebie is also rocketing up the Canadian minutes-played charts.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 11/NASL Week 7 18 May 2015 FC Edmonton's brass decided to rotate the squad for Sunday's match against the San Antonio Scorpions. And, with so many younger prospects given the chance to play, a whopping total of 421 minutes were given to Canadian players.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 10/NASL Week 6 11 May 2015 Hanson Boakai, Adrian Cann and Mason Trafford made their NASL season debuts this past weekend, and it pushes the number of "surefire" Canadian prospects who have played in MLS or NASL in 2015 to 29. But, let's break that number down. Take Ottawa and the Eddies out of the equation, and the number of players drops to 16 — which isn't very good at all.