It's been 85 days since the NHL paused the 2019-20 season. That's more than 12 weeks without hockey, but it feels like 12 years. My last half-d0zen ramblings have been honed in on the upcoming draft, which the NHL has teased us with, only to snatch it back with little more than a vague [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings and coincidentally the first ever on the internet: NHL 2020 Re-Draft. I have been to the future, five years exactly, and I can tell you what every player looks like development-wise in the 2025 off season, which is coincidentally where I wrote a majority of the [...]
If you’re a millennial like me, or a Gen-Z like many other readers, you’re likely familiar with TikTok and the various trends that the video-based social media platform is famous for. If not, here’s a sample - it’s been an entertaining way to pass the time during these times of social isolation to [...]
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings, thanks to my last month series on players drafted too high, developed improperly, or injured (see here for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017-2019) it gave me a new idea on a series. I want to look at the decades of drafting from the North American leagues that are not [...]
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow in the near future. That means an increase in the amount of pre-draft hype that will circulate most social media [...]
Historically, one of my most common faults in assessing the immediate future of prospects in the fantasy arena is expecting production from rising prospects, who simply may not have an opportunity. If you’re a regular reader, you might’ve noticed that recently, I’ve begun to put an enormous amount of emphasis on discussing what [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. It is time to continue my current series of Drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related for prospects from the past NHL drafts. Here are the past ramblings I have written so far: 2014: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2014/ 2015: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2015/ 2016: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2016/ These ramblings will have a different take [...]
MOSCOW, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 27, 2018: CSKA Moscow's Kirill Kaprizov (L) and Spartak Moscow's Robin Hanzl in action in their 2018/19 KHL Regular Season ice hockey match at CSKA Arena. Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS ) Welcome back to the fourth and final Prospect Ramblings quarantine mini-series where I’ve been looking into [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. It is time to continue my current series of Drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related for prospects from the past NHL drafts. Here are the past ones I have written so far: 2014: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2014/ 2015: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2015/ I noticed when looking at 2016 that there are [...]
MOSCOW, RUSSIA SEPTEMBER 27, 2018: CSKA Moscow's Kirill Kaprizov (L) and Spartak Moscow's Robin Hanzl in action in their 2018/19 KHL Regular Season ice hockey match at CSKA Arena. Mikhail Japaridze/TASS (Photo by Mikhail JaparidzeTASS ) Welcome to this week's ramblings! We are taking another crack at some Player A vs. Player [...]
