On Wednesday night, 40 of the CHL’s best NHL draft-eligible prospects gathered in Guelph, ON for an ultimate showdown. The two teams were broken up and played under hockey legends, Don Cherry and Eric Lindros - who was filling in for Bobby Orr. In a game that attracted entire NHL scouting staffs, Team Cherry [...]
*** Join us monthly for 2018 Draft Content courtesy of prospect expert Steve Kournianos (aka @TheDraftAnalyst)! *** 1. Jakub Skarek (Jihavla, Czech Extraliga | 6’3, 196): Nightmarish world juniors notwithstanding, Skarek remains the draft’s top goalie prospect. Blessed with size, cat-like quickness and a superior radar for puck movement, Skarek has held him own as [...]
The modern advent of public data and websites providing new sports metrics to evaluate players has become somewhat of a double-edged sword. On one hand, the democratization of sports statistic analysis has resulted in a whole new area of the business teams are building out, and on the other, it has polarized fans [...]
Miro Heiskanen is named to Finland's Olympic roster. We’re back for another riveting installment of the DobberProspects’ Fantasy Mailbag. I’ve coerced questions from various locations and have assembled a nice array of [...]
If your fantasy season is in the tank and you are going to be a trade deadline seller this year, you are going to be building for the future, and that means prospects and draft picks. We give you plenty of coverage on already NHL drafted prospects every day here at DobberProspects, and we also [...]
Welcome to the second edition of my Mid-Season Scoring Analysis. This time I’ll be focusing on college hockey, more specifically NCAA Division I. In my previous article named “CHL Mid-Season Scoring Analysis”, I explained the determining factors that I use when looking at scoring numbers from development leagues, so if you’re wondering what NHLe [...]
This month's update will be a recap of Team Finland’s performance in the WJC. Overall the tournament was another huge disappointment considering the talent that this team had. *** In the past Finland has relied on its strong teamplay in order to compensate for its lack of elite players. This year the talent was there, [...]
Welcome back for another SHL prospects update! A few quick hitters as we look to the SHL this month: Led by Elias Pettersson, the Vaxjo Lakers sit comfortably atop the SHL standings with 77 points, a 14 point lead over second place Djurgardens. He’s slipped down the scoring leaders due to competing in [...]
Thanks largely to the efforts of Team East forward Tyler Madden (pictured above and son of long-time NHLer and Cleveland Monsters Head Coach John Madden) potting two goals on home ice, and Youngstown Phantom goaltender Ivan Provestov stopping each Team West shot he faced, East prevailed over West 4-3 in Tuesday’s annual USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. Waterloo [...]
It’s about mid-season now, so I figured it’s a good time to check scoring numbers from the Canadian Hockey League. Because this is a fantasy hockey site, I’m only going to look at players who are either first-time draft eligible, have been drafted by an NHL team, or have been signed by an NHL [...]
