Wednesday, December 4th   The annual World Junior Championship season is upon us as countries begin to name their rosters in preparation for next week’s final evaluation camp.   On Monday, Canada announced their 25-player roster and while most inclusions were not a surprise, there were a few missing personalities from the camp list. [...]

  Tuesday, November 19th, 2014   November marks an extremely busy time for junior hockey in the prospects world given that many international events and evaluations are informally occurring.   Monday night kicked off the annual Subway Super Series that pits the Russian National Junior Team (albeit, a much different looking one that is sent [...]

  Wednesday, November 6th     I am usually a fairly patient person when it comes to prospects but the Nail Yakupov situation in Edmonton doesn’t look like it will turn itself around. I was skeptical about Yakupov’s fit when he was drafted by Edmonton (felt Alex Galchenyuk was a better fit, both immediately and [...]

Wednesday, October 30th, 2013     Happy Devils Night folks! Speaking of the Devils, it’s crazy to think that the New Jersey Devils will not have a first round selection at the 2014 NHL Draft (due to the Kovalchuk saga). As the standings are right now, the Devils would be drafting 6th overall…ouch. Hoping that [...]

    Wednesday, October 16th   After a busy Tuesday night in NHL action, I was able to do some quality channel surfing to catch up on some of my favourite prospects. Here are my thoughts:   *   Michael Stone (PHX) – I was pleasantly surprised with how well defenseman Michael Stone played for [...]

  Tuesday, October 8th   I was sitting in a small-town Windsor rink last night waiting for a game to start when I started reminiscing about how active I used to be on the Dobber Hockey forums. Admittedly, I was a forum junkie and probably spent way too much time chatting about hockey...but I loved [...]

  Friday October 4th, 2013   I am going to try something new here and forgive me if it doesn't fancy each and everyone of you but it could be really fun. Friday's prospect rambling is going to be courtesy of my twitter feed and several others with embedded tweets and running commentary from yours [...]

  Tuesday, October 1st, 2013   NHL Regular season hockey starts tonight! Who’s ready for action?   Predict your Stanley Cup Champions below in the comments. I will share mine at the end of this ramble.   The NHL website posted starting rosters for all 30 teams. With several teams juggling cap issues right now, [...]

  Thursday, Septemeber 12th, 2013   You’re getting spoiled here with the third consecutive day in a row I’m throwing prospect ramblings at you. If you missed Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s ramblings then I highly suggest you venture back to give them a perusal, as they’re jam packed with information from prospect tournaments.   ***   [...]