NHL Draft Rankings – ranking the prospects who haven’t been drafted yet.
We’ve finally reached the end of draft season, which means the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking has arrived. The team presents an article featuring 105 draft eligible players for the 2026 NHL Draft. Compared to our mid-year ranking, there have been modest changes within the top-10 of the draft, and more stark changes through [...]
The hockey season is in full swing as we approach one of the marquee events on the scouting calendar—the World Junior Championship—making this a perfect time to release our second ranking of the draft cycle. There has been a fair amount of movement since our preliminary board in September. What initially looked like a promising [...]
Welcome back to the beginning of another NHL Draft cycle with the Dobber Prospects Draft Team. This year comes with a swath of changes to our group, bringing some exciting infusions of new blood into our ranks. Among the people we’ve added—whose info you can locate below—you’ll find a group of highly motivated and knowledgeable [...]
After a long wait, it's finally here: the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft. While in previous updates we’ve kept our rankings slimmer, this time around, we went through the long process of fleshing out our entire top 96. While a lot has been made about the strength of this [...]
We’re back! As regular seasons draw to a close around the hockey world, the Dobber Prospects’ team is taking our chance to get one last word in before playoffs start. With so much time between rankings, we certainly saw a lot of movement. Those changes start at the top, with our top four flip-flopping and [...]
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 [...]
