Wisconsin's Alex Turcotte during an NCAA hockey game against the Boston College on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 in Chestnut Hill, Mass. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson) To date, seven of the two-hundred and seventeen players selected in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft have earned time in the big league. Of the seven, [...]
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Usually around this time of the year, the current year's NHL Entry Draft would have happened over a month ago and scouts would have moved on from it. This is also the time when the Hlinka Gretzky Cup usually starts the new scouting season. But this is [...]
Top NHL draft prospect Alexis Lafrenière will find out which club holds the No. 1 pick after the second lottery on Monday evening. Tonight is the night. We finally discover who will land the fortunate and envious position of selecting first overall when the 2020 class finally has its moment in the spotlight. [...]
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Draft year is often the time we see junior-aged players take a jump and really start to contribute to their teams. The 2020 draft year is no exception with players like Jack Quinn taking a huge step in the production and Jake Sanderson going from second-round prospect [...]
This week the NHL announced that Phase 2 of the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Monday August 6th. So far, the New York Rangers are the sole team to be eliminated from the playoff Qualifying round, but they will soon be joined by seven others, each with an equal 12.5% chance [...]
Welcome back to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I can now continue my decade of drafting series. I was originally just going to look at players drafted out of the Russian leagues but there was only 90 in total from 2008-2018, so I added in the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Norway, Denmark and [...]
In Episode 3 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen talk about the recent U20 games between the Czechs and Slovaks and the U18 training camp games in Finland. They kick off the 2021 NHL Draft coverage by talking about their top choices for first overall from their region, and finish the episode with some [...]
