*** Welcome to the September 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. *** Detroit should have one or two key players graduating to the big club each year for the next several years. Their developing [...]
*** The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects. Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s Draft and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up in September, we will dive into every team’s prospect depth chart with fantasy insights and implications [...]
8 - Philadelphia - Score: 83.9 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Matvei Michkov9.52Tyson Foerster7.33Bobby Brink6.74Oliver Bonk6.65Emil Andrae6.16Egor Zamula5.47Samuel Ersson5.28Massimo Rizzo5.19Ronnie Attard4.710Samu Tuomaala4.611Aleksei Kolosov4.112Denver Barkey3.913Olle Lycksell2.614Carson Bjarnason2.415Helge Grans2.0 Individual Breakdown Forward: Philly’s top-ranked Forward prospect, Matvei Michkov scored an average of 9.5 from our staff, which ranked second in the entire exercise (age 23 and under with fewer [...]
9 - Utah - Score: 82.8 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Logan Cooley9.02Dylan Guenther8.03Dmitriy Simashev7.44Conor Geekie7.25Danil But7.06Michael Hrabal5.47Maveric Lamoureux5.38Josh Doan5.09Jan Jenik4.210Victor Soderstrom4.111Artem Duda3.912Sam Lipkin3.213Michael Kesselring3.114Aku Raty2.115Miko Matikka2.0 Individual Breakdown Forwards: The newest NHL franchise has a solid spread of prospects at forward, including a couple surefire stars (Dylan Guenther, Logan Cooley), two top-six talents (Conor Geekie, Daniil But), [...]
10 - Detroit Red Wings - Score: 82.7 Top 15 Prospects RankPlayerPositionScore1Axel Sandin PellikkaD7.82Simon EdvinssonD7.73Nate DanielsonC6.94Marco KasperC6.85Jonatan BerggrenW6.66Sebastian CossaG6.57Dmitri BuchelnikovLW5.48Trey AugustineG5.09Carter MazurLW4.610William WallinderD4.611Elmer SoderblomLW/RW4.212Shai BuiumD3.713Albert JohanssonD2.714Amadeus LombardiC2.515Redmond SavageC1.9 Individual Breakdown Forwards: Detroit has repeatedly perplexed pundits at the draft over the past 5+ years, passing on higher-octane players again and again in favour of prospects [...]
Two seasons ago, I wrote the first Century Mark column, and we are currently sharpening the blades of the third go-around. Now is the perfect time to check in and see how things went for the fellas who were covered in the initial year. But first, a quick backstory: I got back into fantasy hockey [...]
****** Welcome to the August 2023 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. ****** There has been a bit of a sea-change in Florida’s pipeline lately. After holding and developing a core group of players [...]
*** The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s Draft, and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up in August, we will dive into every team’s prospect depth chart with fantasy insights and implications for [...]
16. Chicago Blackhawks - 76.1 Harling – 79 Quinn – 81 Rines – 81 Itovitch – 71 High – 70 Nuño – 83 Gehrels – 68 Chicago finished with the third-best odds (11.5%) to win the Connor Bedard sweepstakes. Even if they don’t win first overall, they still have an excellent shot at picking third [...]
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 [...]
