As we hit the final third of the 60-game USHL season and head toward the Clark Cup Playoffs, several notable prospects have made lasting impressions. Last year 45 USHL players and alumni were drafted by NHL teams, and quite a few will surely be selected in the 2017 draft as well. Let’s take a look [...]
Minnesota-Duluth reclaims the top spot A strong month of January saw Minnesota-Duluth back on top of the USCHO Top 20 poll, receiving 92% of the available first place votes. Providence, Wisconsin and Air Force slide in to the Top 20, while Bemidji State, Minnesota State and Michigan Tech fall out this week. USCHO Top 20 [...]
Both the NHL and the AHL seasons are emerging from grinding part of the season and getting into the last period of player movement. Down in the AHL, players are stuck down in the minors for a variety of reasons. That does not mean they are not ready or deserving of time with their respective [...]
It was a good night for the Quebec Major Junior League. A great season for the league continued Monday as six players skated in the CHL Top Prospects game in Quebec City, under the direction of an all-Quebecois coaching staff. Alex D'Orio and Nico Hischier were Team Orr's QMJHL representatives while defensemen Antoine [...]
With the CHL Top Prospects game having just taken place late January, I thought it would be most appropriate to have this review highlighting the 2017/2018 NHL Draft eligible and NHL team prospects. The WHL was well represented at the top prospects game with 15 WHLers taking part in the event. There have been a [...]
We’ve reached the midway point of the OHL season which means the OHL Trade Deadline has recently come and gone. The Western Conference was busy with teams like the London Knights, Erie Otters and Windsor Spitfires stacking up. One thing’s for sure, it’s going to be a dog fight until the end for the [...]
The post World Junior draft season has begun as prospects will try to burst onto the scene or further their reputations as the year reaches closer to June and the 2017 NHL Draft. Prospects like Nico Hischier will begin to staple their individual impacts on scouts minds and overlooked players like Nick Suzuki or Joel [...]
We’re back again for another round of fantasy prospect related Q&A. With the increased responsibility being put on young players on their entry level contracts, now more than ever an astute fantasy hockey GM must have a firm grasp on the youth movement coming forward and can dig a little deeper to find those diamonds [...]
Fantasy Ranking the 2017 NHL Draft Eligible Prospects DobberProspects is proud to bring back the experts consensus fantasy ranking for the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. Last year the first edition of the fantasy ranking was released and to this day is the highest viewed post on our sites history. We are the only site to [...]
Thanks to a wealth of homegrown talent, Team Sweden absolutely dominated Group A at the 2017 WJHC going 4-0 with a plus-12 goal differential. They followed up the preliminary round with an 8-3 whitewashing of Slovakia in the Quarterfinal before falling to Canada in the Semifinal and losing to Russia in the Bronze medal game. [...]
