Halifax Mooseheads left wing Jonathan Drouin (Richard Wolowicz, Getty Images)No. 1 Star - Jonathan Drouin, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)

Another game, another multi-point effort from the top prospect, who is doing just fine, thank-you-very-much in the absence of teammate Nathan MacKinnon. Jonathan Drouin, ranked third overall during the last ISS prospect's ranking, picked up three points on Sunday and extended his point streak to 20 games.

He scored midway through the second period to put the Mooseheads up 4-1 over the P.E.I. Rocket, set up a Martin Frk goal early in the first and had a powerplay assist on a Stephen MacAulay tally before the period was out. The Mooseheads up their league-high win streak to four games.

No. 2 Star - Bo Horvat, London Knights (OHL)

The top team in Ontario were also in action Sunday. The London Knights paid a visit to the Niagara Ice Dogs who have been reeling since the loss of Dougie Hamilton to the Boston Bruins. They're 3-7 in their past ten games. The loaded London Knights, lucky enough that their NHL-level talent is not good enough for the show, or contained within high scoring draft prospects Bo Horvat and Max Domi.

Blades' two-way forward Matej Stransky throws a check (CP)When is it going to be time to start talking about how good of a hockey team this spring's MasterCard Memorial Cup hosts are?

This current nine-game winning streak they're on can't last, although the group put together by head coach and general manager Lorne Molleken is now beginning to get results as advertised. They beat the Swift Current Broncos on a late goal from Josh Nicholls last night to improve their record to 32-29-3. It seems like a long time ago the team began 2-7 and there were already questions about Duncan Siemens' leadership, the chemistry in the locker room, and the Sportsnet cameras following around the team all the time.

As it happens, when you're scoring on just 6.4% of your shots and your opponents are scoring on 14.6% of the same, you're probably not going to win too many hockey games. But shooting and save percentages are fairly unsustainable, especially over a very small sample of games. Even while the team had a poor start, they were consistently out-shooting the opposition and holding an advantage in puck possession. They just weren't winning.

Laurent Brossoit is putting together another impressive seasonIf there's a time for humour in the Edmonton Oil Kings' locker room, it might just be during this winning stretch of theirs, similar to last season's, but one that ended in disappointment.

Starting goaltender Laurent Brossoit might be the first to tell you that he struggled on the national stage last May. He had an .871 save percentage during the tournament and allowed six goals in the first two periods of the Tiebreaker game.

This morning, last season's Western Hockey League playoff MVP took to his Twitter account and channeled his inner @strombone1, posting an Instagram photo of him after having allowed a goal during last season's MasterCard Memorial Cup:

Me in my prime instagr.am/p/VekN51L5Eh/

— Laurent Brossoit (@LBrossoit) February 8, 2013

But that appears to be behind Brossoit now, as the Oil Kings again look poised to win the WHL's Eastern Conference and will probably match up against the Portland Winterhawks in the final for the second straight season. Edmonton, going into Friday's game in Brandon, are 40-11-2 on the season, 13 points up on second-place Calgary and 20 up on East Division leading Prince Albert.

Sarnia Sting rookie Nikolay Goldobin (Terry Wilson, OHL Images)Based on recent trends, it appears as though more draft-eligible imports are trying their hand in the Canadian Hockey League. I don't want to affix a particular narrative to a small sample of data, but over the last three National Hockey League drafts, 39 selects have been imported players on WHL, OHL or QMJHL teams.

Over the five seasons before that, the total number was 31.

What's the reason for the shift? Either it's in visibility or that countries are beginning to develop better junior hockey players. I'm opting for the latter. Recent CHL imports to be drafted into the NHL have come from non-traditional hockey nations like Germany's Philip Grubauer and Marcel Noebels, Denmark's Niklas Jensen, two Swiss-born studs from the Portland Winterhawks Nino Niederreiter and Sven Bärtschi, and their WHL rival, the Swiss-born-but-plays-for-France Tim Bozon.

What more's, as the top international hockey players look for new avenues to distinguish themselves from the pack, is they're becoming not just good players for CHL clubs, but very important ones. Three imports, two of them drafted, find themselves on the top page of the WHL's leaderboard, Bozon and Matej Stransky. The third is Victoria's Alex Gogolev, who holds the dubious distinction of being a rare 20-year old import, taking up one of three Royals' overage spots and one of two European spots.

Windsor Spitfires' Kerby Rychel (OHL Images)No. 1 Star - Kerby Rychel, Windsor Spitfires (OHL)

Kerby Rychel was on the receiving end of a pair of nifty feeds Friday night leading to his two-goal game against the Guelph Storm. The Spitfires won 3-1 and, thanks to Saginaw's loss to Peterborough, are now four points out of the final playoff spot in the OHL's Western Conference. In the first period of the Friday game, Alexander Khokhlachev dipsied around the offensive zone with speed, circling behind the net and with his head up, spotted a streaking Rychel and connected with a pass in the slot to give the Spits a 1-0 lead.

In the third period, with the score tied 1-1, Rychel was again caught in stride, this time by Josh Ho-Sang who deftly tipped a Graeme Brown clear right onto Rychel's stick, who flew down the right wing and beat Storm goaltender Garret Sparks with a slapshot from right at the top of the circle. It was Rychel's 28th and 29th goals on the season for the prospect who is first-time eligible at the NHL draft in June.

No. 2 Star - Ryan Sproul, Sault-Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)

An odd game played out between Plymouth and the Soo. Michael Vellucci's squad got up to a quick 3-1 lead 11:30 into the first period and Sheldon Keefe pulled young Matt Murray, replacing him with the even younger Justin Nichols. Nichols could very well have been a "star" in this one, stopping 34 of 36 shots from that point on, but the Greyhounds needed offence.

Nathan MacKinnon (right) and Jonathan Drouin (The Canadian Press)No. 1 Star - Jonathan Drouin, Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL)

Jonathan Drouin has arguably been the better of the two Halifax top prospects since the IIHF U-20s. Since that tournament, what's keeping Nathan MacKinnon above Drouin in the rankings is body of work, and I think the recent production of Drouin leading up to the draft could keep his name fresh in the minds of casual fans following along.

Drouin finished off January with 7 goals and 11 assists, punctuated by a two goal-two assist performance in the Mooseheads' blowout win over Chicoutimi Thursday night. The pedestrian MacKinnon has only 8 goals and 5 assists in the month of January and only had a goal to go along with his two assists against the Saguenéens.

It's an interesting debate no doubt, although I would point out that Drouin's January shooting percentage, i.e.: the time we've seen of him in the "Q" since the world juniors, is 26.0%, well above his normalized career shooting rate of 17.6%. MacKinnon's 15.6% shooting percentage is closer to his career total of 15.0%, so MacKinnon is producing at a normalized rate.

Still, who wants to worry about math? Both players had exceptional games, will go high in the draft, and Zachary Fucale also got a 26-save shutout.

No. 2 Star - Blake Clarke, Brampton Battalion (OHL)

Here's some more math for you: Blake Clarke, who turned 17 a week ago, now has his third two-goal game at the OHL-level. The Wildwood, MO native and former St. Louis Midget had two goals and an assist for the Battalion over their Kennedy Rd. rivals down in Mississauga.

Ivan Barbashev (QMJHL)It's a problem without an easy solution.

The CHL Import Draft can be a costly endeavour for small-market clubs across the league, especially as some of the elite prospects taken in the annual draft seek representation. The apparent cost to transfer a prospect from his country's junior league is $2,400, according to La Presse reporter Steve Turcotte. However, he points out, that number can multiply if an elite prospect has an agent pitting a large market CHL team in a bidding war against his European junior league.

Turcotte's report suggests a fairly radical rule change that is being discussed among CHL brass that could modify the way the Import Draft is executed. The idea would be to prevent the trading of import picks and then, in addition, have teams hold on to those import players for at least a year. Similar to rules in the OHL Priority Selection that forbids the trading of first-round picks. The rule change is not official, but the three leagues are getting together to discuss discrepancies in player recruitment. Currently, large-market teams have an advantage where small-market teams don't.

However the recruitment discrepancy may be stronger when looking at domestic players. Windsor and Portland have been dinged with sanctions by their respective leagues for improper recruitment and benefits, but the best imports have been diversified across the major markets. This season, Leon Draistatl plays in Prince Albert while Nikolay Goldobin has replaced Sarnia's scoring that they lost when Nail Yakupov chose to play for his hometown KHL club over the Sting.

Val-d'Or Foreurs Anthony ManthaNo. 1 Star - Anthony Mantha, Val-d'Or Foreurs (QMJHL)

We'll give our first star of the night to a rising star in the QMJHL, Anthony Mantha, who has been a very pleasant story in Val d'Or this season. When TSN released its mid-season draft rankings Wednesday night, Mantha was listed at No. 19. He is, of course, a single day from the cut-off of being eligible for the 2012 draft, but the extra year gives him an advantage over other prospects from the 2013 class.

Mantha is fifth in the "Q" in scoring, notching his 40th goal of the season in a wild contest between the Foreurs and Blainville-Boisbriand at le Centre d'Excellence Sports Rousseau. Down 3-1 early in the second, Mantha knocked in his 39th on the powerplay to make the score 3-2. Midway through the third period, his team down 5-4, Mantha knocked in his 40th to tie the score and sent the game to a shootout, where he easily beat Armada goaltender Guillaume Decelles in the fourth round for the winner.

No. 2 Star - Daniil Zharkov, Belleville Bulls (OHL)

While Nail Yakupov was off scoring overtime winners in Phoenix at the NHL-level, his fellow Russian Edmonton Oilers-select from the 2012 draft scored his first career hat-trick for the Belleville Bulls in an absolute romp over the Kingston Frontenacs. His third goal sounds as if it were easy on the eyes: