Prospect Ramblings: AHL Playoff time
*** The AHL season wraps up today and the Calder Cup Playoffs will begin in short notice. This is an excellent time of year to be on the hunt for good names to draft next season - because a big playoff run can often tell you so much more than a regular-season stat line can. [...]
Prospect Ramblings: 2019 Calder Class, Olli Juolevi Steps Up & Sami Niku Takes Home Hardware
Winnipeg Jets’ defensive prospect, Sami Niku was awarded the Eddie Shore Trophy earlier this week given to the AHL’s top defender. The 21-year-old tallied 16 goals and 53 points in 72 games for the Manitoba Moose and earned himself a game in the NHL at the end of the regular season. [...]
Prospect Ramblings – Rookie Playoffs to 2018-2019 – April 12 2018
Welcome to Thursday ramblings again, these will have to be short and sweet, floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee, as time has been limited for me with playoffs pool and other life things. I am going to go over rookies on NHL teams in the playoffs and if I [...]
Prospects Ramblings: Quinton Byfield Top Pick in OHL Draft, AHL and NCAA updates.
With the NHL season all wrapped up, the focus is fully on the playoffs. The NHL is a little late to the party as most of the other leagues have already begun their post seasons, weeks ago in some cases. On Sunday our Senior Associate Editor Hayden penned a great ramblings looking at NHL Prospects [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Prospects in the Playoffs
*** Well there we have it. The 2017-18 is nearly in the rearview mirror (an inconsequential BOS/FLA makeup game awaits tonight), and it was an absolutely fantastic year for rookies. Barzal hit 85 points, blowing everyone's expectations away, and Vancouver has a new local legend in Brock Boeser (seriously, he's everywhere here now). But now [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Breaking Down Ty Smith, Evan Bouchard & Noah Dobson
As we inch closer to the NHL draft and CHL players begin falling to the wayside as their teams are eliminated from playoff action, it’s time to truly start locking players into their draft slots. This week, I’ll dig into three CHL draft-eligible defenders who seem to be consistently ranked in and around [...]
Prospect Ramblings – AHL rookie all-stars, OHL award nominees, OHL action, Pinho – April 5 2018
picture courtesy https://theahl.com/husso-ahl-player-of-the-week Welcome again to the Thursday ramblings where we will check on Wednesday’s playoff action, some AHL awards, OHL nominees, and a few notes. ********************** The AHL released the members of its all-rookie team yesterday, results below (stats through Apr. 3 https://theahl.com/2017-18-ahl-all-rookie-team): Goaltender – Ville Husso, San [...]
Prospect Ramblings: OHL Playoffs roundup
*** There's been some good Canadian Junior Hockey playoff content lately, and there will be much more to come as playoffs in all three leagues are underway, with the first rounds nearly wrapped up. Here's a quick debrief of the OHL bracket for those of us lacking the free time to catch all the action: [...]
KHL and MHL playoffs, Gersich, and more
Well it is Thursday and you know what Thursday at dobber prospects is now, my day to ramble. I will go over the current KHL and MHL playoffs, Shane Gersich, a Panthers prospect I have a feeling about, and CHL teams that have already moved on. Also Svechnikov is still my fantasy hockey [...]