As Carolina started down the path on their eventual rebuild, they knew it would be a long road towards building a product and organizational depth that would be a foundation for the future. Luckily, that rebuild has been accelerated by the recent successes of some great drafting over the past few offseasons. Sebastian Aho, [...]
As Hayden noted earlier this week with his piece on the defending gold medal winning Team USA (you can find it here), this week is the 2017 World Juniors Summer Showcase. Teams will a good look at the player pool that they will choose from come December. The 2017 Showcase is being held in Plymouth, [...]
As the summer doldrums continue in July with nothing too much to talk about from a prospects perspective, I figured I'd let you guys in on what the Dobber Prospects Fantasy Hockey League has been up to (besides, this IS a fantasy hockey site about prospects). We just started our amateur draft, and had completed [...]
2017 Carolina Hurricanes: After making trades for goaltender Scott Darling’s rights, and acquiring Trevor van Riemsdyk from Las Vegas following the Expansion Draft, GM Ron Francis and the Hurricanes still had eight selections entering the 2017 NHL Draft weekend. Many, including myself, did not expect the team to draft eight players, rather anticipating the Canes [...]
The CHL Import Draft took place this morning with 72 players being drafted across 54 OHL, QMJHL and WHL teams. The Barrie Colts had the first overall pick, and snatched up the potential 2018 NHL first overall draft pick in Andrei Svechnikov, who had been playing his junior hockey for Muskegon of the USHL before [...]
Now that the 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs have ended, and the Pittsburgh Penguins have been crowned champions, lets take a closer look at some under the radar prospects who performed well along the way. Also, stick tap to the Grand Rapids Griffins who closed out the Syracuse Crunch to win the 2017 Calder Cup [...]
Apologies for no ramblings lately, as we have been shifting things over to the new server. There will be plenty of updates coming your way this week, so be on the lookout. While we were gone, the 2017 Memorial Cup has been in full swing, starting last Friday, and will culminate with the Championship game [...]
Today in the Ramblings we take some time to take a closer look at the OHL, QMJHL and WHL Finals. Updating where the three series stand, who has been producing and which teams needs to step their game up. OHL - Mississauga Steelheads vs Erie Otters - Erie leading series 2-1 After Erie took the [...]
While trying to look at how to improve my fantasy roster for next season, I was searching through some rookie stats and decided to take a closer look at a handful of prospects and how they performed in their first campaigns in the NHL. As with any sample size, some prospects underperformed and others may [...]
Each year, prospects make a name for themselves in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and go on to contribute for their clubs as full time NHL players the following season. It happened a season ago with Jonathan Drouin in a big way with 14 points in Tampa Bay’s 17 games en route to the Eastern Conference [...]
