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 [...]
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, [...]
Image Credit: Predlines.com Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and track the development of junior players across the hockey world. Klingberg Acquisition Hurts Addison As Ian Gooding indicated in the Dobber Fantasy Take over at the main site, John Klingberg joining the Wild was likely to [...]
Cover credit: usahockeyntdp.com 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. After being held out all season due to a lower-body injury, the illustrious Frank Nazar III (CHI) has finally returned for UMichigan (NCAA). He [...]
Cover credit: unionandblue.com 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. Checking in on the NHL Rank King PNHLe rankings, I notice that eight of the top 15 prospects outside the NHL right now are [...]
Cover image: https://www.wkbw.com/ A few weeks from now, Dobber Prospects will be releasing the 2023 edition of our annual NHL Draft Fantasy Rankings. As part of my process for preparing for that article and establishing a Top 32 that I feel good about, I have identified a couple players who have both dynamic skill sets [...]
Cover image: The Hockey News For only three bucks a month, you can get access to Mitch Brown’s incredible microstat database, complete with detailed player cards and informative visualizations. Join his Patreon here. He manually tracks a variety of useful metrics across five categories—shooting, passing, transition, defence, and miscellaneous—to provide a clear picture of [...]
Cover image: Broad Street Hockey Congratulations to Caitlin Kraemer and Team Canada for taking home the gold medal! They beat Sweden 10-0 in the final match to emerge victorious for the second straight time from the 2023 Women’s U18 World Championships. Kraemer scored four goals in this game, giving her ten for the tournament—a total [...]
Cover image: Hockey-news.info In case you missed it, a few of the Dobber Prospects Editors got together this past weekend on the Fantasy Hockey Life podcast with Victor and Jesse to chat about some of the standouts from the World Juniors. Prospects discussed included Jiri Kulich, Joakim Kemell, Brad Lambert, Lane Hutson, Luke Hughes, Ryan [...]
Cover image credit: AHL.com Two less-heralded forwards on Team Canada at this year’s WJC who have caught my eye are Zach Ostapchuk (OTT, 2021 #39) and Nathan Gaucher (ANA, 2022 #22). Neither interested me much in their draft years from a fantasy perspective because their skill sets lay more on the defensive side of things. [...]
