On Episode 12 of Dobber's DraftCast, host's Jokke Nevalainen and Tony Ferrari are back from their post-draft mini-break talking about the news from around the hockey and prospect world. From how COVID is affecting leagues around the world to how other's are going to be starting up in the midst of a pandemic. The [...]
Since I haven't written anything for a while and we still don't have anyone writing the Liiga Report (hint hint, check here if you watch Liiga games and would like to write about the prospects there), I figured I'd write a little bit about some of the more interesting prospects playing in Finland. It's been [...]
In Episode 11 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen are joined by The Athletic's NHL Draft analyst Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler) to discuss some of the best prospects available for the 2021 NHL Draft. Follow us on Twitter: @DobberDraftCast, @theTonyFerrari, @JokkeNevalainen. Timestamps 0:20 Scott Wheeler joins the show1:20 The QMJHL situation3:50 [...]
On this episode of Dobber's DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen are joined by the majority of the DobberProspects' scouting team to sort out the teams top-100 2020 NHL Draft rankings! This behind the scenes look gives a bit of an idea of what a scouting meeting is like, our evaluations of over [...]
In Episode 8 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen are joined by ESPN's NHL Draft analyst Chris Peters (@chrismpeters) to discuss the best American prospects for the 2020 and 2021 NHL Drafts. Follow us on Twitter: @DobberDraftCast, @theTonyFerrari, @JokkeNevalainen. Timestamps: 0:20 Early 2023 NHL Draft thoughts: Connor Bedard & Matvei [...]
In Episode 6 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen are joined by the founder of Scouching, Will Scouch, to discuss 2020 NHL Draft risers and fallers. Will also answers some Twitter questions. Follow Will on all the platforms: twitter.com/Scouching youtube.com/Scouching patreon.com/Scouching Follow us on Twitter: @DobberDraftCast, @theTonyFerrari, @JokkeNevalainen. Timestamps: 0:20 News [...]
Photo courtesy of Leijonat.fi Finland has now held two under-20 training camps – one in July in Vierumäki and the other one in August in Imatra. They played two games during each camp, and I was fortunate enough to attend all four games live. They played intrasquad games in Vierumäki but they [...]
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Usually around this time of the year, the current year's NHL Entry Draft would have happened over a month ago and scouts would have moved on from it. This is also the time when the Hlinka Gretzky Cup usually starts the new scouting season. But this is [...]
In Episode 3 of Dobber’s DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen talk about the recent U20 games between the Czechs and Slovaks and the U18 training camp games in Finland. They kick off the 2021 NHL Draft coverage by talking about their top choices for first overall from their region, and finish the episode with some [...]
In Episode 1 of Dobber's DraftCast, hosts Tony Ferrari and Jokke Nevalainen review how the delayed 2020 NHL Entry Draft affects things in different countries, at what point the leagues are expected to start their 2020-2021 seasons, and what kind of expectations they have for the upcoming season for some of the top prospects [...]
