Have you seen Casey Mittelstadt lately? Buffalo must be overjoyed with his work at the Summer Showcase, especially following a superb performance at Sabres’ Development Camp a few weeks ago. He assertively registered nine points (six assists and three goals in just ten shots) over five games with Team USA and USA White, and [...]
That was the Blue Jackets’ best year yet. Vaulting from their previous 34-40-8 campaign and just 76 points (fourth-worst in the league), they earned the NHL’s fourth-highest point total with 108 and a 50-24-8 record landing their first playoff berth since 2013-14, tasting the postseason for only the third time in their 17-year history. Unfortunately [...]
The good news for the Avs is that it can't get much worse. After a disaterous 2016-17, the organization has stocked up on some NHL depth and some smooth-skating prospects (see my Entry Draft article here). The road back to respectability will be a long one, but the team is lucky enough to start [...]
You really have to tip your hat to the Hawks the way they have managed their roster around the salary cap. You can’t argue with success and the Hawks have three Stanley Cup Banners hanging inside the United Center. The team core of Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, and Corey Crawford combine [...]
As Carolina started down the path on their eventual rebuild, they knew it would be a long road towards building a product and organizational depth that would be a foundation for the future. Luckily, that rebuild has been accelerated by the recent successes of some great drafting over the past few offseasons. Sebastian Aho, [...]
August 31-in-31: Calgary Flames Flames fans have been spoiled by their prospects in the last number of years. Immediate impact from Matthew Tkachuk in 2016-17 continues the trend set by high first-rounders Monahan and Bennett. However, beyond those players, you have to go back a number of years to find an NHL player to appear [...]
It feels like the 2017 NHL Draft just happened, but believe it or not the 2017-2018 NHL season is almost here. Here at Dobber Prospects, that means that is time for the August 31-in-31. In order to get prepared for the fantasy hockey season, we are here to provide insight on team’s up-and-coming talent and [...]
It’s August already! Everyone knows what that means, it means it’s almost hockey season again and things are heating up in the fantasy hockey world. Here at DobberProspects we’ve already got our draft done for the year and now we’re into free agency and trades, lots and lots of trades. This 31-in-31 series will be [...]
Western Teams Paul covers the Western Conference talking prospects from the Calgary Flames and Minnesota Wild. Players discussed include Mike Jankowski, Rasmus Andersson, Morgan Klimchuk and Dillon Dube from the Flames. Joel Eriksson Ek, Kirill Kaprizov, Luke Kunin, Jordan Greenway, Mike Reilly and Gustav Olofsson from the Wild Eastern Teams Pete takes us [...]
As Hayden noted earlier this week with his piece on the defending gold medal winning Team USA (you can find it here), this week is the 2017 World Juniors Summer Showcase. Teams will a good look at the player pool that they will choose from come December. The 2017 Showcase is being held in Plymouth, [...]
