2020-21 DobberProspects Organizational Rankings What NHL franchise has the best prospects? That can be a difficult and subjective question to answer. To give it our best shot, the senior staff at DobberProspects has collaborated to give our personal rankings for each team. With that, we have established a consensus ranking. Peter Harling (Content Manager) has [...]
This is the third and final article about the topic of finding NHL players from NHL Drafts. I have been going through a span of 10 years – from the year 2000 to 2009 – and reviewing the results from different angles. In the first article (link), I focused on general probabilities of finding [...]
If you’re a millennial like me, or a Gen-Z like many other readers, you’re likely familiar with TikTok and the various trends that the video-based social media platform is famous for. If not, here’s a sample - it’s been an entertaining way to pass the time during these times of social isolation to [...]
Every June, the hockey community becomes saturated with mock drafts. Everyone and their dog takes a swing at predicting how the entry draft will shake out. Every year, they’re wrong. So this year, while we have extra time waiting for the draft to occur, our Western League Scout, Joel Henderson created the Chaos Mock [...]
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings, thanks to my last month series on players drafted too high, developed improperly, or injured (see here for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017-2019) it gave me a new idea on a series. I want to look at the decades of drafting from the North American leagues that are not [...]
Photo courtesy of NHL.com The wait is over. We finally know what is going on. Kind of. The NHL and Commissioner Gary Bettman released a video out of Gary Bettman's man cave to fill the hockey world in on what the plan is for the return to play format, how the [...]
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow in the near future. That means an increase in the amount of pre-draft hype that will circulate most social media [...]
Jake Neighbours lines up for a faceoff against the Prince Albert Raiders. Photo courtesy of the oilkings.ca I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Edmonton Oil Kings forward Jake Neighbours. The 2020 draft-eligible prospect was having a strong year with 70 points in 64 games. We chatted about [...]
What NHL franchise has the best prospects? That can be a difficult and subjective question to answer. To give it our best shot, the senior staff at DobberProspects has collaborated to give our personal rankings for each team. With that we have established a consensus ranking. Peter Harling (Content Manager) has put together a team [...]
After the first article about NHL Draft Pick Probabilities (link) was released, there were some asking for something similar but with different player positions being separated to see if there are any differences there. That raised my interest, so I decided to use the same data I had already available to see what type [...]
