Prospect Ramblings: Selling High on Levi; Clarke’s Historic Season; Hutson Snubbed
Welcome back to my weekly ramblings, where I provide news and updates, highlight intriguing prospects, and generally track the development of junior players across the hockey world. — Congratulations to Adam Fantilli for winning the [...]
DP Scouting Team’s Spring Rankings for the 2023 NHL Draft
The 2023 NHL Draft class has been a joy to scout. While it remains early to label it as the best class since 2005 - 2015 also has a strong claim there - it [...]
Ramblings: Zegras Heating Up, OHL & QMJHL Prospects to Watch
Welcome to my ramblings, where I’ll be writing down my thoughts on NHL and draft-eligible prospects once a week. I’ll be using the ramblings to keep you posted on the week's events, and let you in on some questions I ask myself often regarding prospects, amateur scouting and player development. [...]
Prospect Ramblings: NCAA update
This is my first NCAA ramblings of the year, I have not had an opportunity to take in too many games this season so far but I am looking forward to giving everyone the low down on the top prospects in the NCAA. My keeper league team is called Cawlidge [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Michigan’s NCAA Dream Team — A Look at the Wolverines’ Current Stars and Future Commits
Welcome to my ramblings, where I’ll be writing down my thoughts on NHL and draft-eligible prospects once a week. I’ll be using the ramblings to keep you posted on the week's events, and let you in on some questions I ask myself often regarding prospects, amateur scouting and player development. [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Rookie TOI, Clague, Krebs, OHL notes and Caldernomics update
When it comes to a prospect panning out it comes down to talent plus opportunity. Really, the same could be said for any NHL player but it is especially true with prospects as it’s tough to develop and get NHL reps without opportunity. Cole Caufield was given an opportunity depending [...]
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December 31-in-31: Detroit Red Wings
The Red Wings are in a full on rebuild and Steve Yzerman has helped guide the way as Detroit has added high end talent to their system in the last couple of drafts. Some of [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Scouring the Forums
Welcome to the Thursday Friday prospect ramblings. With the 31-in-31 coverage still ongoing at dobberprospects (HERE) and our monthly reports (HERE) it is tough to still mine more prospect information to write about. [...]
December 31-in-31: Columbus Blue Jackets
The 31-in-31 Offseason Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in December we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s prospect depth chart, riser & fallers, and top prospect ranking. *** [...]
December 31-in-31: Carolina Hurricanes
Well, here we are yet again. Hockey season is right around the corner (hopefully). The Carolina Hurricanes are coming off of yet another year of making the playoffs, after a long drought that disappointed many [...]
December USHL Report
Photo courtesy of Neutral Zone Hockey The USHL is a league that produces more and more NHL talent with every passing Draft class; in 2013, only one player from the USHL (Michael McCarron, [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Kirill Marchenko, Eeli Tolvanen, Nail Yakupov
Boom-or-bust type prospects have always been risky choices at the NHL Draft, but as the league shifts more towards a forechecking-and-possession-based style of play, it makes less sense than ever to select a player who [...]