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 [...]
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. [...]
Prospect Ramblings - The Next Generation of the Bleu Blanc Rouge It's no secret that I'm a big Habs fan. While I'm relatively new to the hockey world, only really becoming a fan when I was 16 watching the Canadiens go to the cup final, growing up in Montreal, it's hard not to have [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Self-Proclaimed President of the Lane Hutson Fan Club I love Lane Hutson. This is no secret to anybody who knows me personally, or to anybody who knows me online, or to anybody who’s been in my presence any time in the past year. While all of my prospect ramblings thus far have [...]
Prospect Ramblings: 2023 Eligible Goalies, a Two-Way Race at the Top I'm no goalie scout. It's the thing that confuses me the most in this sport, as when looking at some of the most highly hyped netminders of the past, I can't figure out what went wrong with their development. It feels like [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Generational Shots I’ve only been in the scouting ‘game’ for about 10 months. Because of that, I’ve only really seen two crops of draft-eligibles (while beefing up my knowledge of the 2020 and 2021 classes), but I can assuredly say that this 2023 class has some of the best shooters I’ve [...]
Prospect Ramblings: UDNDTP x 2023 – The Top-10 Trio This USNDTP class is as good as any barring 2019. There may be no future top-five center, or any possible 50-goal-scoring winger, but there is a very special trio of players. I’ve personally been low on this entire USNDTP class for most of the [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Dmitri Simashev – a Tier Above the Rest If there’s one player who’s risen more than any other for me in this draft class, it’s Dmitri Simashev. From not even being ranked in October (granted, neither was Jayden Perron, so I’ve come a long way), to becoming a player on the edge [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Year of the Short King The NHL will always have an inherent bias against small players. This isn’t necessarily wrong, since it’s an inevitable reality that players under 5-10 are less likely to make an impact in the league. While players like Alex DeBrincat, Cole Caufield, and Quinn Hughes have found important [...]
Welcome to the September 2022 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series. This month, we are diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers and top-20 prospects. It was the hope that at this point in the offseason the Dallas Stars would have signed both of their [...]
