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. [...]
Welcome to my return to prospect ramblings. This one will be a quick one as I only have a quick annual topic to cover. That being my annual World Junior Championship pool. What is it? A quick pool of five friends picking four Canadians and two international skaters, the idea being to mainly [...]
Photo credit: NHL.com I’ll start today’s Ramblings with a few observations about the World Juniors, then shift over to highlighting a few players elsewhere. I have a soft spot for Team Germany after previewing their roster ahead of the tournament, and they put on an entertaining show as the clear underdog in their 1-0 loss [...]
Shane Wright Wright has a lot to prove at this tournament. There is no doubt he is still a top prospect and the Seattle Kraken are playing the long game with him. A strong tournament at the under 20 World Junior Championship (U20WJC) will no doubt improve his confidence, though I’m not sure it will [...]
There have been plenty of impactful rookies around the league this season. Each division is spoiled with young talent, and in this week’s Prospect Ramblings, I wanted to highlight the Atlantic Division rookie class. Only some rookies or teams will be included in this list, but I wanted to give my quick thoughts on most [...]
Photo credit: Photo by Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images If you can afford to wait, now is an excellent time to send an offer on Jamie Drysdale (ANA) in keepers and dynasties. He has been out for a while now, and with races heating up a third of the way through the season, [...]
