Prospect Ramblings: Less-Heralded WJC stars; Writers vs. Scouts; Meh-rkley requests trade
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 [...]
Prospect Ramblings: WJC Prospect Flipping
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings. One key to consistently winning your keeper leagues is to pick up the hot prospect and trade them for an upgrade to finish your season. What better way [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Pod Signs, Caufield Moves On & Knight Shines
Welcome back to Tuesday's Prospect Ramblings. While some get the privilege of enjoying cutthroat playoff hockey, the remaining fanbases are forced to look towards much less nail-biting events. In this case, it's the NHL Draft Lottery, which is set to run on Wednesday, June 2nd. This will be our first [...]
Liiga Report: May 2021
Under-the-Radar Finns Eligible for the 2021 NHL Draft In the last decade, Finland has been producing more and more high-end NHL players. Whether it’s star players such as Aleksander Barkov, Mikko Rantanen, Patrik Laine, Sebastian Aho, Miro Heiskanen, or more recently selected players such as Kaapo Kakko and Anton Lundell, [...]
Prospect Ramblings: From Russia with Glove, a look at Goalie Prospects
If the NHL has taught us anything about goalies over the past few seasons, it’s that being an NHL number one goalie is tough. You can probably count on one hand, if you are being generous, the number of goalies you know will be bonafide number one's next year. By [...]
WHL Update: May 2021
WHL Wrap Up Report Part 1 - May 2021 Welcome back to the second instalment of the 2021 WHL report! If you missed our April edition you can find it Here. With the season now wrapped up we will be taking a look at how each team faired [...]
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Dobber’s DraftCast S2E8: Atlantic Division Prospects with a chance to make the roster
On this episode: Pat is joined by Ben to discuss prospects in the Atlantic Division who have a chance to make the roster to start, have cups of coffee, or may be up after the trade deadline. This talk is to help fantasy hockey GMs decide on prospects to add, watch or invest in for […]
Dobber’s DraftCast S2E7: Metro Division Prospects with a chance to make the roster
On this episode: Pat is joined by Ben to discuss prospects in the Metro Division who have a chance to make the roster to start, have cups of coffee, or may be up after the trade deadline. This talk is to help fantasy hockey GMs decide on prospects to add, watch or invest in for […]
Dobber’s DraftCast S2E6: Central Division Prospects with a chance to make the roster
On this episode: Pat is joined by Ben to discuss prospects in the Central Division who have a chance to make the roster to start, have cups of coffee, or may be up after the trade deadline. This talk is to help fantasy hockey GMs decide on prospects to add, watch or invest in for […]
Prospect Ramblings: Applying Quantitative Risk Assessment to Drafting
“He’s a skilled player, but it's a risky pick.” You're sure to hear that line on draft day when it finally arrives, but what does that actually mean? Skill, and risk. In some [...]
DPR Episode 93: Organizational Rankings, Prospect Report Review With Pat Quinn and Jokke Nevalainen
DobberProspects writers Pat Quinn and Jokke Nevalainen join the show to review the recent Organizational Rankings series and the 2020 DobberProspects Fantasy Hockey Report. The guys discuss how they ranked players, what criteria were used, [...]
2020 NHL Draft: Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on creating a 1st round lottery, mock draft, and playoff simulator for the NHL Rank King app. When the NHL released their ‘phased lottery system’ [...]
Robinson: “Final” 2020 NHL Draft Rankings (June 2020)
Amateur scouting departments were thrown a curveball the minute the world shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. No CHL playoffs, Memorial Cup, or U18 World Championships. Massive opportunities for young players were swiftly [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT: DobberProspects Partners with InStat Hockey
It is with great excitement that we announce our new partnership with InStat Hockey - the premier scouting platform on the planet. "InStat uses its own analysis methodology, which gives a fair overview of [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Prospect Report Highlights
Welcome to the Thursday Prospect ramblings where I have decided to put my “Decade of Drafting” series on hold because no one here at DobberProspects has gone over the prospect report yet. I [...]