https://twitter.com/iihf_wjc Projecting Team USA & Team Canada for the WJC The World Juniors are fast approaching. The tournament will kick off on Boxing Day and the host country is the Czech Republic. Canada and the United States will be looking to make a splash in Ostrava and Trinec, but they [...]
Welcome to the Thursday Friday prospect ramblings. Let us...well me get to rambling But first! My #GoodTweet of the week {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sabres finally traded a dman!! <a href="https://t.co/LgMRorAgDv">https://t.co/LgMRorAgDv</a></p>— Pat Quinn (not that one) (@FHPQuinn) <a href="https://twitter.com/FHPQuinn/status/1198771331174502401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>{/source} ****************** Not enough people are talking about the [...]
If you’re just tuning in to the 2019 Calder Trophy Power Rankings here at DobberProspects, you’ve found us at as good of a time as any. I’ve been excited to use this bi-weekly ramblings platform for this ongoing segment that I’ve found to be a fun way to track the progress of our 2019 [...]
The NHL rookie record for points by a defenseman is 76. That was done by none other than Hall of Famer Larry Murphy in 1980-81. Cale Makar, through 23 games, is on pace for 89 points. While it may be unlikely that Makar keeps this pace, thinking that he could sustain this enough to [...]
*** When a team is under-performing so badly that the organization fires the coach mid-season, we expect that team to get a bit of a spark. In the case of the AHL coach taking over, I tend to assume that the players familiar with that coach will see an extra jump in their step, and [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. They say “it takes five years to know if a team won the draft or not” and well it has been five and change years since the 2014. Well here is me re-drafting the first round of the 2014 draft. I am drafting on player and no [...]
Photo courtesy of https://omni.se/ Ten minutes and fifteen seconds. That's the average amount of ice time that Lucas Raymond is playing when in the lineup with Frölunda. In that time, Raymond has just one goal and two assists through 14 games with his primary team in the SHL. For a prospect in [...]
Last week I had the chance to take a hockey road trip across Western Ontario to take in some games. The showcase games of course were the Canada Russia Series games during the OHL leg of the tournament. Between games I managed to to take advantage of geographical proximity of the GTA to watch several [...]
I did my first projection of Team Finland for the World Juniors about a month ago (link). But because we got some new information from the U20 Four Nations tournament that was played in Helsinki about a week ago, I figured I’d share my updated projection now. This time, I also included my projection [...]
*** The annual CIBC Canada/Russia series kicked off earlier this month and wrapped up this week as Team Russia made their way to Western Canada. CHL team were comprised of top players who left their CHL teams to participate, making this tournament a good chance to see top prospects stand out (or not) among [...]
