Draft Review When the Florida Panthers entered the draft, they had plans to restock their shelves heavily leaning on team need. Having added a second and fourth-round draft pick from the Pittsburgh Penguins in return for Jared McCann and Nick Bjugstad, a third from the Oilers for Alex Petrovic and trading up [...]
*** Welcome to our annual 31-in-31 Summer Series here at DobberProspects! Every day in July we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s draft, notes from their development camp, and insights into their off-season moves so far. Following this up, the August 31-in-31 Series will dive into every team’s prospect depth [...]
Victor Söderström Gets Low The 2019 NHL Entry Draft is not the most exciting one for us Swedes, and it suffers from being between a very good Swedish draft (2018) and a draft that could be the best one ever for Sweden (2020). But there are still a few very interesting Swedish prospects that [...]
With the 2019 NHL Draft just 10 days away, we're ramping up our coverage. Today we have a guest feature from the man simply known as Russian Prospects (@RUSProspects). ** Tier 1 aka "The Pod"1. W Vasiliy PodkolzinLet's face it, Podkolzin is a tier of his own here. Everything has been already said and done [...]
*** Welcome to the NCAA signings edition of the Prospect Ramblings! Today we look at the impact of some of the impactful players who were drafted and left college for the professional ranks, and some of the undrafted free agents that have made an imprint on their new teams. There has been a lot [...]
*** It’s been a long 66 days since the OHL trade freeze re-opened for Christmas break. The OHL Trade Deadline has come and gone and we are starting to see the positive and negative impacts of the 47 players and 87 picks exchanged since December 28 break. One of the biggest surprises were the [...]
Nikita Zaitsev, D Shoots: R Height: 6-2 Weight: 196 Born: 1991-10-29 Hometown: Moscow, RUS Drafted: [...]
Stephen Desrocher, D Shoots: L Height: 6-04 Weight: 198 Born: 1996-01-26 Hometown: Toronto, ON Drafted: 6th round 2015 by Toronto Maple Leafs (155th Overall) Observations: December 2017 - After completing his Over Age season with the Kingston Frontenacs, Desrocher finished the year practicing with the Toronto Marlies during their [...]
We're almost there, the OHL Championship is right around the corner as the Mississauga Steelheads get ready to face the Erie Otters. Arguably the two best teams in each conference vying for a chance at the J Ross Robertson Cup. We've seen some impressive performances this post-season and none of them should come to a [...]
Auston Matthews, C Shoots: L Height: 6-2 Weight: 194 Born: 1997-09-17 Hometown: Scotsdale, AZ Draft Eligible: 2016 by Toronto Maple Leafs, 1st Overall Observations: April 2017 – With his rejection of playing the World Championships, the Matthews rookie season is complete. He came, he scored, he threw some size around, [...]
