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Business Insider
2 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
Morgan Stanley Sticks to Its Buy Rating for London Stock Exchange (LSEG)
In a report released today, Bruce Hamilton from Morgan Stanley maintained a Buy rating on London Stock Exchange, with a price target of £126.00. The company's shares closed last Friday at p10,830.00. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks Premium at 50% off! Unlock powerful investing tools, advanced data, and expert analyst insights to help you invest with confidence. Make smarter investment decisions with TipRanks' Smart Investor Picks, delivered to your inbox every week. Hamilton covers the Financial sector, focusing on stocks such as Euronext NV, Deutsche Boerse, and DWS Group GmbH & Co KGaA. According to TipRanks, Hamilton has an average return of 9.8% and a 66.47% success rate on recommended stocks. London Stock Exchange has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of p13,075.00, implying a 20.73% upside from current levels. In a report released on July 16, J.P. Morgan also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a £127.00 price target.
The Province
02-07-2025
- Sport
- The Province
Memorial Cup host Kelowna Rockets add Islanders prospect with No. 1 pick in CHL Import Draft
Czech winger Tomas Poletin is the latest addition for Kelowna GM Bruce Hamilton as he looks to get ready for national championship tournament Get the latest from Steve Ewen straight to your inbox Kelowna Rockets' president and GM Bruce Hamilton. Photo by Dave Abel / Dave Abel/Toronto Sun/QMI Agency Bruce Hamilton's heavy lifting to build the Kelowna Rockets into a Memorial Cup contender continues. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. 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THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors The Rockets are hosting the four-team national championship tournament next May. Hamilton, who is Kelowna's general manager, has been putting the pieces together for that run since last season's WHL trade deadline. His latest additions came Wednesday, when the Rockets selected Czech winger Tomas Poletin with the No. 1 pick in the CHL Import Draft, and then took his countryman and fellow winger Daniel Pekar at No. 7. 'I think we're moving in the right direction. I don't foresee a bunch of changes here over the next little bit, unless something falls into our lap,' Hamilton said. 'I think we're close now.' The Rockets made a trade last week to land the Poletin pick, sending the Moose Jaw Warriors the No. 71 Import selection, a 2026 WHL Draft first-round choice, and a 2027 WHL third-rounder in exchange for the top spot. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Poletin, 18, is a 6-foot-1, 206-pound left-handed shot who was selected Saturday in the fourth round of the NHL Draft by the New York Islanders. Hamilton wanted 'another bigger forward capable of playing in our top-six.' According to Elite Prospects, Poletin is 'rugged, attacks in straight lines and pushes an extreme effort level across all shifts.' He played in the Finnish junior league last year, and was the captain of the Czechia team at the Under-18 worlds, where he put up two goals in five games. He also had three goals and four points in five games at the Hlinka Gretzky Cup. Poletin had 13 goals and 20 points in 25 games with the Pelicans of the Finnish junior league. Pekar, 19, is a 5-foot-11, 176-pound left-hand shot who played in the Czechia junior league with Bílí Tygři Liberec, and totalled 23 goals and 49 points in 45 games. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Kelowna was a dismal 18-44-4-2 last season. They were stung in late December when star forward Tij Iginla, 18, was shelved for the season with a hip injury. He is expected back with Kelowna this season. Hamilton started his remake at the January trade deadline, and that included a deal with the Spokane Chiefs for winger Andrew Cristall that brought back centre Hayden Paupanekis and five WHL Draft selections, and a swap with the Lethbridge Hurricanes for defenceman Caden Price that acquired defenceman Will Sharpe, the rights to goalie Harrison Boettiger, and another five draft picks. The Rockets announced last week that they had signed Boettiger, 17, who played last season with the U.S. National Team Development Program. Paupanekis, 18, was a third-round pick Saturday of the Montreal Canadiens. Sharpe, 18, was a seventh-round choice of the Los Angeles Kings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. They are among 10 Rockets who are at NHL development camps this week. That list includes defenceman Mazden Leslie, 20, who the Rockets acquired this summer from the Vancouver Giants for two conditional draft picks, including a 2028 first-rounder. Leslie was the WHL's second-leading scorer among blueliners last season, with 72 points, including 21 goals. He announced last season that he was going to suit up for the Bowling Green State University Falcons this fall if he didn't land a job in pro hockey, rather than coming back to the Giants. Leslie is at Vegas Golden Knights development camp this week, and he was a free-agent invite to their training camp last season, so there is history there. Assuming he doesn't stick with Vegas, Leslie could pivot and join Kelowna for their Memorial Cup run. There is always the chance, too, that he signs a deal with Vegas and they reassign him back to junior, knowing that he would have an extended playoff run with Kelowna. Vegas does have strong WHL ties thanks to general manager Kelly McCrimmon's time running the Brandon Wheat Kings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Hopefully, he's going to come to us,' Hamilton said of Leslie. Vancouver, who have also lost defender Colton Roberts, 19, to the NCAA ranks and Colorado College this off-season, filled some of those missing ice time minutes Wednesday when they nabbed Czech defenceman Jan Skok with the No. 61 choice. Skok, who turns 19 in October, is a 6-foot, 192-pound left-shot rearguard who Vancouver general manager Hnat Domenichelli described as a 'defensive-minded, first-over-the-board for the penalty kill' type of player. He played 28 games in the Czech pro league last season with Plzeň and had one goal. 'He's a veteran guy who can step in and play big minutes for us,' Domenichelli added. CHL teams will be permitted to have three Europeans on their game-day rosters this season, up from two. Vancouver's trio will include Czech winger Adam Titlbach, who is coming back for a third season with the Langley Events Centre crew, and Slovak winger Tobias Tomik, who was picked last year by Vancouver but opted to stay and play pro in his homeland. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Tomik, who turns 18 in December, had six goals and eight points in 40 games with Trencin Dukla, a team that featured a 43-year-old Tomas Starosta. Titlbach, 19, went from nine goals in his first year with Vancouver to 27 last season. He has played internationally alongside Skok. As well on Wednesday, the expansion Penticton Vees made three choices that included nabbing Danish forward Tristan Petersen, 18, with a third-round selection (No. 123 overall). He finished this season playing for Penticton in their final campaign in the BCHL, and the 6-foot-4, 192-pound left shot totalled four goals and nine points in 17 games. Vees GM and coach Fred Harbinson has five players from this past season slated to join him and other team brass making that jump next fall. 'It's so that it's not just the coaching staff that's trying to explain our culture and our daily habits and traditions. A couple of years ago, we only had two returning players and it was very challenging at the beginning of the year,' Harbinson explained. sewen@ Read More Vancouver Canucks Opinion News Celebrity Vancouver Canucks
National Post
19-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Canucks: Adam Foote not to blame for 'tough spot' as WHL head coach
Article content Adam Foote was in the coaching-criticism crosshairs with the Kelowna Rockets as a first-time bench boss, but team owner, president and general manager Bruce Hamilton is taking the bullet of blame. Article content Article content Foote, 53, was named head coach of the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday to replace Rick Tocchet. Foote had a pair of heavily scrutinized WHL seasons in the Okanagan after serving as player development and defensive assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche. Article content The Toronto native was hired Oct. 23, 2018, to take over a struggling WHL team in transition, and revamping a roster on the fly as host for the 2020 Memorial Cup. But everything that could go wrong did. The Rockets went 29-28-3-3 that sorry season, scored the fewest goals, and went through 42 players. Article content Foote was fired Feb. 19, 2020, with 14 games remaining and the Rockets in a nose dive. They won just five of 19 games after Christmas and, if that wasn't bad enough, the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled the Memorial Cup. Add in that Foote was coaching his son Nolan and Hamilton knows it was a recipe for ridicule. Article content 'It was a terrible year, to be honest,' Hamilton said Monday. 'Some of the guys we acquired were not great character people. We had a really good culture going here prior to that, and when you bring in a bunch of rentals, we didn't do enough research. It's starting to change but it took a long time. Article content 'Adam got along with the players well because he had two boys that age and had an idea how to communicate and got help with the Xs and Os. But the number of (roster) changes we made didn't help and the team camaraderie wasn't there. And it's on me. Article content Article content 'I put somebody in who didn't have a lot of experience and I didn't do him any favours. There are some interesting things he's going to have to go through as a head coach there (Vancouver). My hope, and I don't know what his assistants are like, but he's going to need somebody to help him out.' Article content Article content That comes with the territory. Foote was well liked as an assistant and the Canucks will hire offensive and defensive coaches to ease the transition. Foote turned the defence into a more cohesive and diligent group, but now he's wearing a different hat. Article content 'The head coach is controlling who's going to play,' said Hamilton. 'As an assistant, it's never your fault, it's the head coach's fault.' Article content Hamilton didn't have to do much research about Foote, a hockey dad who often hung around the rink, even before accepting the Rockets job. However, coaching in the WHL is a different animal than coaching in the NHL. Article content 'It was a huge adjustment,' admitted Hamilton. 'From him being a hockey dad with one son (Cal) playing for Tampa Bay's affiliate, and the other (Nolan) on our team, he was pretty hands on with his boys. And once Cal was here, Adam was around a lot. He would come to every practice and sit up in the restaurant, so nobody knew he was there.
