Prospect Ramblings: Dmitri Simashev – a Tier Above the Rest If there’s one player who’s risen more than any other for me in this draft class, it’s Dmitri Simashev. From not even being ranked in October (granted, neither was Jayden Perron, so I’ve come a long way), to becoming a player on the edge [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Year of the Short King The NHL will always have an inherent bias against small players. This isn’t necessarily wrong, since it’s an inevitable reality that players under 5-10 are less likely to make an impact in the league. While players like Alex DeBrincat, Cole Caufield, and Quinn Hughes have found important [...]
- Welcome to the Friday Ramblings. This week I am going to highlight a couple rookies/prospects who are increasing ownership on Fantrax. If you have someone on your watch list was the +/- feature to see if they are getting scooped up or dropped. It is no fun getting scooped! - - Rafael Harvey-Pinard [...]
Cover credit: unionandblue.com Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I will provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. Checking in on the NHL Rank King PNHLe rankings, I notice that eight of the top 15 prospects outside the NHL right now are [...]
Cover image: https://www.wkbw.com/ A few weeks from now, Dobber Prospects will be releasing the 2023 edition of our annual NHL Draft Fantasy Rankings. As part of my process for preparing for that article and establishing a Top 32 that I feel good about, I have identified a couple players who have both dynamic skill sets [...]
Cover image: The Hockey News For only three bucks a month, you can get access to Mitch Brown’s incredible microstat database, complete with detailed player cards and informative visualizations. Join his Patreon here. He manually tracks a variety of useful metrics across five categories—shooting, passing, transition, defence, and miscellaneous—to provide a clear picture of [...]
- - Welcome to the Friday prospect ramblings. This week I wanted to give a broad overview of what I deem a good spot for prospect goalies versus a bad one. A good spot is one where you should invest in the goalies in the system and a bad/risky one is where you should [...]
Cover image: Broad Street Hockey Congratulations to Caitlin Kraemer and Team Canada for taking home the gold medal! They beat Sweden 10-0 in the final match to emerge victorious for the second straight time from the 2023 Women’s U18 World Championships. Kraemer scored four goals in this game, giving her ten for the tournament—a total [...]
Cover image: Hockey-news.info In case you missed it, a few of the Dobber Prospects Editors got together this past weekend on the Fantasy Hockey Life podcast with Victor and Jesse to chat about some of the standouts from the World Juniors. Prospects discussed included Jiri Kulich, Joakim Kemell, Brad Lambert, Lane Hutson, Luke Hughes, Ryan [...]
Cover image credit: AHL.com Two less-heralded forwards on Team Canada at this year’s WJC who have caught my eye are Zach Ostapchuk (OTT, 2021 #39) and Nathan Gaucher (ANA, 2022 #22). Neither interested me much in their draft years from a fantasy perspective because their skill sets lay more on the defensive side of things. [...]
