NHL Draft Rankings – ranking the prospects who haven’t been drafted yet.
Luke Sweeney—Just under five months removed from the 2024 NHL Draft, and after many long days and nights spent poring over tape, we at the Dobber Prospects scouting team are ready to share our initial Top 32 ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft. Though viewed by many as an especially weak class, that perception [...]
Sebastian High — The 2024 NHL Draft Class may not have been regarded as a particularly strong group at the onset of the 2023-24 season, but as the year has progressed, the depth of Top-10 and 1st-round talent has ripened and improved steadily. Beyond our clear Top 1 and 2, the next tier of [...]
It's that time of year once again. The NHL regular season has come to a close, and 16 NHL teams' and fanbases' focus is shifting toward the 2024 NHL Draft. With the U18 Men's World Championships just on the horizon, this marks our penultimate rankings of the season at DobberProspects, with our Final Top [...]
It's finally here. After much deliberation, a two-hour-long meeting and hundreds of cumulative viewings, the DobberProspects scouting team is ready to reveal our top 64 prospects for the 2024 NHL Draft. Between the World Juniors, the U18 Five Nations tournament, and lots and lots of league tape, much has changed in our evaluation of [...]
Sebastian High: The 2024 Draft Class is a fascinating one. While it lacks the abundance of elite skill that the 2023 class offered, the cluster of players between 15 and 32 on our board was incredibly tight and left a lot of room for our individual scouts to go to bat for players they've [...]
The 2023 NHL Draft class has been a joy to scout. While it remains early to label it as the best class since 2005 - 2015 also has a strong claim there - it is certainly stronger than the past two classes by a fair amount. That is not only true at the top [...]
The 2023 NHL Draft class has long been lauded for both its depth and star quality, and the group has certainly lived up to expectations through the first few months of the 2022-23 season. Sure, there are generational talents and potential franchise cornerstones like Connor Bedard, Adam Fantilli, Matvei Michkov, and Leo Carlsson, but there [...]
Powered by InStat Hockey It was a short turnaround from the 2022 draft cycle as the hockey calendar begins to return to normal, and our group is excited to bring you our preliminary rankings for the 2023 NHL Draft. While it is important not to get too carried away this early on, the 2023 class [...]
Powered by InStat Hockey We have reached the conclusion of what has been another long draft cycle but this one felt far more normal than the last couple of years did. For the most part, leagues around the world returned to their regular schedules, providing draft-eligible players with ample opportunity to improve their draft stocks [...]
Powered by InStat Hockey Leagues all over the world are into their stretch drives, with some already onto the postseason, and there have been notable changes on our board since we published our last rankings in December. Our team of scouts has been hard at work watching game tape, logging live viewings, and writing reports [...]
