Overwhelmingly Canadian Power Rankings: MLS Week 7/NASL Week 3/USL Week 4 18 Apr 2016 This past weekend, the Edmonton teenager made his pro debut, playing 80 minutes in FC Edmonton’s 1-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Overwhelmingly Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 4/USL Week 1 28 Mar 2016 Yet, this week, we’ll announce a change in the way we do things with our power rankings. We will track the minutes played by Canadians in USL. But, to make sure fair is fair, the USL numbers are not tracked on the same list as MLS and NASL.
Some Kind of Terrible: Canada bullied by a superior Mexican side 25 Mar 2016 Life isn’t like a John Hughes film. In real life, the socially awkward guy who listens to Echo and the Bunnymen doesn’t end up with the most popular girl in high school. In real life, if the scrawny kid challenges the neighbourhood bully to a fight, he comes home with his own blood on his shirt and there’s fewer teeth in his mouth than he began the day with.
Overwhelmingly Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 1 7 Mar 2016 But it was a notable opening week in MLS for Canadians: Cyle Larin scored in Orlando City’s remarkable comeback against Real Salt Lake; the Lions came from two goals down in second-half injury time. Toronto FC gave full 90s to Will Johnson and Jonathan Osorio in their 2-0 win at the New York Red Bulls. The Whitecaps started two Canadians.
The elder statesmen 11 Jan 2016 With the likes of Cyle Larin and Junior Hoilett in the ranks, the Canadian men’s national team has received an injection of new blood. But, really, this team will likely only go as far as Atiba Hutchinson, Julian de Guzman and Will Johnson can take it...
As he joins TFC, Will Johnson has glowing things to say about Portland 18 Dec 2015 He’s won MLS Cups. He’s been an MLS All-Star. He’s an MLS team captain. And, when healthy, he’s an automatic Canadian national-team starter. So there’s nothing wrong with the fact that his first interaction with the media as a Toronto FC midfielder felt like a bit of a victory lap. He’s earned it.
Canada kills the wicked witch, while Vancouver gets promise it will host key WCQ against Mexico 13 Nov 2015 Who knew that an exorcism could be achieved with such an ugly goal? Such a beautiful, wonderful, ugly goal, that is.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings: The final countdown 1 Nov 2015 As MLS began its playoffs, NASL finished the final week of its regular season. So, this will be the final instalment of our power rankings.
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS season-end/NASL 1 week to go 26 Oct 2015 If Kyle Porter plays 22 minutes or more for Atlanta in the final week of the NASL season, he is guaranteed to be the Canadian minutes leader in MLS or NASL this season.This is the penultimate instalment of the Power Rankings, with the MLS regular season having wrapped up this past weekend and NASL having just one week to go (save for FC Edmonton, which has a bye on the final week of the season).
Quintessentially Canadian Power Rankings, MLS Week 33/NASL Week 27 19 Oct 2015 As we head into the final week of the MLS regular-season schedule and the last two weeks of the NASL regular-season slate, only four players remain mathematically alive to be the top Canadian in terms of minutes played in either division one or two.