Welcome to my first-ever ramblings, where I’ll be writing down my thoughts on the NHL’s prospects once a week. I’ll be using the ramblings to let you in on some questions I ask myself often, regarding NHL prospects, amateur scouting and player development. Starting off: A little over a week ago, a trusted member [...]
Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series! This month, we will be diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers and top 20 prospects. ** As was detailed in last month’s article, the Devils just turned a massive corner in their rebuild with the [...]
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 charts with fantasy insights and implications for the [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the USHL monthly report. This time around, we will take a look at a polarizing defenseman from the U.S. National Team Development Program, Sean Behrens. The 5-10, 175-pound left-handed blueliner has put up 18 points in 23 USHL games, showing decent distribution and puck-moving abilities. His size and point [...]
Photo courtesy of Neutral Zone Hockey The final seed in the East versus the top team in the West. David versus Goliath. Your hand versus the Pringles can. We’ve heard this story before: the underdog with faith on their side, against the monolith who seems undefeatable. From the start of the [...]
The U.S. National Team Development Program (USNTDP) has been in charge of developing the nation’s top talents since 1996, and it seems like their crops get better every year. From current NHL stars Auston Matthews, Jack Eichel, Patrick Kane, Matthew Tkachuk, and many more. To up-and-coming youngsters like Trevor Zegras, Cole Caufield and Matt Boldy, [...]
The 2021 Biosteel All-American Game is a yearly event in which the top USHL prospects face each other in front of a crowd of scouts, looking intently for talent to pick up in the upcoming 2021 NHL Draft. This year’s face-off was between a team of USHL all-stars and the U.S. National Team [...]
Photo courtesy of CBC.ca USHL Monthly Report: Deep dive on Cole Sillinger Back in November 2020, the WHL season had to cancel the start of their season due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and the risks young student-athletes faced. The USHL, however, had just begun its season, despite the entire country swimming [...]
Photo courtesy of https://www.sfstampede.com/ The Sioux Falls Stampede have had a rocky start to their USHL season, with a record of 12-12-3, and for good reason: they play in the same division as the two most stacked USHL teams in the Chicago Steel and the Muskegon Lumberjacks, as well as the US [...]
Three players to watch on the USNTDP With the 2020-2021 USHL season well underway, the members of the United States National Team Development Program, or USNTDP, have already played a handful of games against their USHL counterparts; the improvement of the other USHL programs in the circuit, outlined in last month’s [...]
