About Ben Gehrels

Ben Gehrels writes about emerging prospects in The Journey at Dobber Hockey and covers the Florida Panthers prospect system for Dobber Prospects. Ironically, he’s been a Colorado Avalanche fan since 1995 when they beat the Panthers for their first Cup. He fell in love with the sport as a kid growing up in Thunder Bay playing hockey on the ice, the street, and in hallways with mini sticks. At seven, he went along to his dad’s office pool draft and has been hooked on fantasy hockey ever since. Now he is a teacher in rural BC who loves picking morels, playing Mario Kart, and scheming about how to get an edge in his dynasty pools. Follow him @beegare on Twitter for prospect observations and fantasy insights.

Organizational Rankings 8. Philadelphia Flyers

By |2024-04-30T00:13:08-04:00April 30th, 2024|Feature Story|

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 [...]

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Organizational Rankings 9. Utah

By |2024-05-01T11:39:06-04:00April 28th, 2024|Feature Story|

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), [...]

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Organizational Rankings 10. Detroit Red Wings

By |2024-04-27T20:16:27-04:00April 27th, 2024|Feature Story|

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 [...]

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Century Mark: Revisiting Predictions from Two Years Ago on Cozens, Smith, Brannstrom, Sandin, Drysdale, and Bean

By |2023-10-25T22:07:11-04:00October 25th, 2023|The Century Mark|

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 [...]

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August 32-in-32: Florida Panthers

By |2023-08-14T14:13:29-04:00August 14th, 2023|32-in-32 Series|

****** 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 [...]

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July 32-in-32: Florida Panthers

By |2023-07-13T13:05:35-04:00July 13th, 2023|32-in-32 Series|

*** 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 [...]

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Prospect Ramblings: How to Detect Multi-Cat Prospects

By |2023-04-25T19:10:23-04:00April 26th, 2023|Prospects Rambling|

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 [...]

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Prospect Ramblings: Selling High on Levi; Clarke’s Historic Season; Hutson Snubbed

By |2023-04-20T02:12:13-04:00April 20th, 2023|Prospects Rambling|

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 [...]

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Prospect Ramblings: Lessons Learned From Ranking the 2022 Draft Class

By |2023-04-06T15:46:40-04:00April 6th, 2023|Prospects Rambling|

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, [...]

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