The CHL Hockey Season is back! Two games to kick off the OHL schedule last night, the QMJHL starts tonight and WHL starts Friday. The OHL Regular Season has begun, Sarnia met up with the defending Memorial Cup Champs, the London Knights and the Flint Firebirds hosted the Saginaw Spirit. With NHL training camps [...]
The Anaheim Ducks, Colorado Avalanche, and San Jose Sharks gathered their best prospects for the inaugural Rookie Showcase event in Westminster Colorado. The assembly of prospects was excellent and an opportunity for the three teams front offices, as well as scouts from other clubs, to see the best of these organizations. While a handful [...]
Hockey is back! The World Cup is dominating hockey headlines and the annual rookie tournaments which usually have no competition this time of year are an afterthought. There are some prospects playing in the World Cup and Hayden Soboleski looked at that in his Prospects Ramblings on Sunday. There are Rookie Tournaments across North America [...]
Taking a look at prospects making a statement at the World Cup of Hockey in this Sunday Ramblings... *** Friday afternoon, I get a text from my dad saying "looks like the Blackhawks have a good guy in the works". I knew he recently read the DobberHockey and DobberProspect guides and responded, "Yeah, Pokka and [...]
Jesse Puljujärvi must have been smiling after he had two goals and an assist to lead Edmonton to a 4-1 victory over Vancouver on the first day of the YoungStars Classic tournament. Fellow Finnish high 2016 draft picks Markus Niemeläinen and Olli Juolevi also helped the Oilers and Canucks, respectively. The Columbus Blue Jackets’ [...]
The 2016 Rookie Tournament hosted by London will kick off September 16th until the 18th. It showcases four teams playing a round-robin. The four teams include Montreal, Ottawa, Pittsburgh and Toronto prospects. There will be two games each day. The schedule is posted below. Friday, September 16, 2016 3:35pm – GAME 1 – Pittsburgh [...]
On September 16th, eight NHL teams will send their selected prospect rosters to the 18th Annual NHL Prospect Tournament in Traverse City, Michigan. The tournament consists of two, four-team divisions named for NHL Hall of Famers Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay. Each team will play a round-robin schedule within their division, with the division [...]
Each year there is a new wave of prospects coming to the NHL from various European leagues. Some of these players were drafted, and some were signed as a free agent. It is difficult to judge who will be the next Artemi Panarin, and who will be the next Roman Cervenka. There has been plenty [...]
Looking at the depth rounds of our scouts' prospect draft in this Sunday Ramblings... *** For the last few weeks I've been sharing the results of the prospect draft with rosters run by the scouts here at DobberProspects. You can read about Rounds 1-3 here, and Rounds 4-7 here. This week, I'll be sharing [...]
Things have gone downhill for Griffin Reinhart since he hoisted the Memorial Cup in 2014. A new season looms, and in fact has already begun for players competing in the World Cup. Aging veterans will face a growing challenge to maintain their level of play and remain in the NHL. Prospects will get a [...]
