32. Pittsburgh Penguins – 51.8 Harling – 53 High – 49 Quinn – 51.5 Rines – 53 Gehrels – 47 Nuno – 60 Itovitch - 49 The rebuild era in Pittsburgh is coming. This past summer the Penguins decided to resign aging core veterans Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, rather than trade them as [...]
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. This week, I will share some thoughts on finding value in multi-cat formats by exploiting category biases in your fellow managers; then we will link that discussion back [...]
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. — Congratulations to Adam Fantilli for winning the Hobey Baker Award as the NCAA’s top player in 2022-23! The other two finalists were Logan Cooley (ARI) and Mathew [...]
The 2023 NHL Draft class has been a joy to scout. While it remains early to label it as the best class since 2005 - 2015 also has a strong claim there - it is certainly stronger than the past two classes by a fair amount. That is not only true at the top [...]
Prospect Ramblings: 2023 ‘NHL Ready’ Eligibles I’m still under the belief that no player from the 2022 draft was NHL ready come September. There were obvious growing pains for Juraj Slafkovsky, Shane Wright spent the bulk of the season in the OHL, and Simon Nemec and David Jiricek were mostly AHLers. The story is [...]
Welcome to April’s edition of Dobber’s QMJHL update! With one round in the books, junior hockey fans were treated to a little bit of everything in the first taste of playoff hockey. From a few upsets to emerging rivalries, and of course, plenty of hostilities to go around as the temperature gets ratcheted up [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Hedging My Bets in 2023 The 2022 draft already seems to be a minor success from the standpoint of my personal rankings. I messed up royally on guys like Jimmy Snuggerud, but hit on David Jiricek, Noah Ostlund, and most importantly Lane Hutson. The 2023 draft will be a real test, however. [...]
The first round of the WHL playoffs has now finished: the top-four teams in both conferences have moved on to the next round. To many, the most disappointing outcome of Round One was the Regina Pats, who put up the best fight against the Saskatoon Blades, because that means that Connor Bedard's run at the Memorial [...]
Every month, Alex Wyatt digs into some players who have reached the 100 NHL-games-played threshold, as this is the mark that many leagues use as a threshold for players casting off their minors eligibility. Philip Tomasino (NAS) Philip Tomasino had a strong rookie season with the Nashville Predators in 2021-2022, posting 12 goals and 24 [...]
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I will provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. For the last few years, I have privately assembled my own draft rankings. They are an amalgamation of a ton of footage, scouting reports, data tracking projects, [...]
