Last year the Leafs had a massive influx of rookie talent that had a profound positive impact on the roster, but at the same time depleted the reserves significantly as well. That being said the cupboards are far from empty and the Leafs Management team has done an admirable job of feeding the beast this [...]
Hobey Baker Award recipient Will Butcher will announce Sunday which NHL organization will get his professional services. If baseball people think the dog days are in August, they should think again. This is the slowest section of the hockey calendar, although there’s always something going on. NHL GMs not still in vacay mode [...]
| Blaine Byron, C | ||
| Shoots: L | Height: 6-0 | Weight: 170 |
| Born: 1995-02-21 | Hometown: Manotick, ON, CAN | Drafted: 2013 by Pittsburgh, 179th Overall |
The Lightning experienced an overwhelming amount of injuries over the course of the 2016-17 season leading to their first playoff miss since 2013. The injury plagued season allowed the Lightning to closely examine several of their ripening prospects, as well as potentially earn some leverage in negotiations with key RFA’s Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat, [...]
Offseason: New York Rangers had a strong offseason from a prospect perspective selecting twice in the first round of the NHL draft, acquiring defensive depth via trade and also signing several free agents. Overall the Rangers have excellent depth in net and on defence however up front is where the prospect pool thins [...]
Welcome Wagon 2017: Rudolfs Balcers (ELC), Brandon Bollig, Radim Simek, Filip Sandberg, Josef Korenar, and Antoine Bibeau Dearly Departed: Mirco Mueller (trade), David Schlemko (expansion), Nikita Jevpalovs (KHL), Patrick Marleau (UFA), Micheal Haley (UFA), Mantas Armalis (UFA) 2017 - Sharks with a Few Less Teeth Replacing the goal scoring that Patrick Marleau brought to [...]
Top Ten Prospects #1 Ivan Barbashev, C – Chicago Wolves (AHL) Barbashev seems likely to be playing 3C for the Blues with Patrik Berglund injured. He made positive impressions in his stint in the NHL. He is the type of two way center the Blues depend upon to maintain their style of play. #2 [...]
The Kerfoot watch is over. It seemed a lock for many months that their 2012 fifth-round pick was not New Jersey-bound, trekking the unsigned draftee-UFA path that led ex-Crimson linemate and Predator selection Jimmy Vesey last year to Madison Square Garden, but now that it’s official it’s less a punch in the gut for the [...]
Eastern Teams Paul ranks the Sabres trio trying to break into the NHL and brings to light a European import player who could open some eyes early. Peter finds out how highly owned the Isles top prospects (Josh Ho-Sang, Mathew Barzal and Anthony Beauvillier) are, so he focuses on the defense with four guys [...]
With college starting over the last couple weeks in the States, college hockey is just over a month away from getting cranked back up. Throughout the season, I'll have college hockey articles on DobberProspects just like last year, the first week of each month, keeping you up to date on the happenings en route [...]
