The ongoing social distancing mandate has given me an excellent opportunity to begin working on my fantasy draft lists for this offseason. Typically I would’ve begun earlier and tweaked the lists throughout the season, but this year I simply didn’t have the time. As such, one tool that I’ve relied on to form a [...]
Alexis Lafrenière (right) and Quinton Byfield are the projected top-two picks in the 2020 NHL Draft (Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League) Happy Easter to those who celebrate and Happy Monday to those who do not! Who doesn't love a mock draft? The order was determined through Tankathon.com and the big winners [...]
https://postmediaottawasun.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/18-02-10-67s-v-Oshawa-00-Andr-Tourigny-00-Puck-Delivery-jp.jpg?quality=60&strip=all&w=551&zoom=2 Over the years, the Ottawa 67’s have developed a plethora of NHL talent. Since the team’s inception in 1967, the 67’s have had 175 players drafted in either the NHL Entry Draft, the NHL Amateur Draft and the WHA Amateur Draft. Among the 175 players drafted, several of them had [...]
For last Friday's Prospect Ramblings, I offered up some of my raw observations from live QMJHL competition throughout the 2019-20 campaign in which fourteen of the leagues' top draft-eligible prospects were discussed. After this week's announcement of the NHL Central Scouting's year-end rankings, most of those players look to still be in contention for [...]
Welcome to the Thursday Ramblings. I have found a topic to write about for this week. Hopefully everyone is safe. I miss sports. No idea what else to say! I could discuss where prospects will be drafted but my list is set and likely not moving until the draft order is created. When [...]
Photo courtesy of hockeymagasinet.com When it comes to prospect development in Europe, Frölunda HC is renowned as one of the best systems for prospect development. Frölunda HC has had the most players drafted by NHL teams in Europe. Since 1981, 82 players from Frölunda HC have been drafted by NHL teams [...]
Why are you here? That's not an existential question, I just mean, what brought you to DobberProspects today? If you're anything like me, it's probably the draft rankings. The thing that brought me to DobberProspects in the beginning and a large part of what still brings me in now is simple, to the point [...]
Photo courtesy of https://isport.blesk.cz/ Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I answer questions asked to me last week. The last time I attempted this I had zero responses and like ~250 followers. Now I have jumped up to! …. TWO responses with 382 followers. It increased by an astounding 200%. [...]
I was recently reminded that I published my first 2020 NHL Draft ranking all the way back in November of 2018 – a whopping 16 months ago! I’ve never published a ranking so early, so I figured it would be fun to see how it’s holding up. To do that, I took my [...]
On Tuesday, the Minnesota Wild signed undrafted free agent Mitchell Chaffee to a two-year entry-level contract. Chaffee has spent the last three years playing collegiate hockey with the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Minutemen. This past season, Chaffee was a co-captain for the Minutemen and appeared in 30 regular-season games. The Rockford, Michigan native [...]
