USHL Update: January
The Chicago Steel once again have made headlines as one of the more powerful teams in the USHL. The Steel currently have six players in the top eleven in points scored out of the entire [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Michkov controversy, CHL trades, Reinbacher, Marchenko, and more
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 [...]
Prospect Ramblings: AHL Rookie Standouts
This has been a weird year for the AHL but for fans of prospects and player development, it has been a treat. Typically. a rookie AHL standout is a specific type of player, they need to be good enough to be a point per game in a professional men’s league [...]
The U18 World Championships Were A Young Man’s Game
Despite the tournament being the first look scouts have gotten at some of the 2021 NHL Draft eligibles, discussion surrounding the 2021 IIHF World Championship was dominated by players not eligible until next year - and in the case of Matvei Michkov and Connor Bedard, not eligible for two years. [...]
QMJHL Report: May 2021
The regular season has now officially come to a close and the President’s Cup Playoffs are now in full swing. With the qualifying playoff round completed the matchups are set for the quarter-finals. While there haven’t been too many upsets thus far there was one big one that [...]
Prospect Ramblings: The Rest of the Calder Field
Welcome back to the Thursday Prospect Ramblings. This week I just would like to discuss some of the remaining field of Calder eligible players for this season. It is an easy money bet that one of Kirill Kaprizov and Jason Robertson will win the award, but what can [...]
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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 […]
Best and Worst Teams at Finding NHL Players from the Draft
This is the third and final article about the topic of finding NHL players from NHL Drafts. I have been going through a span of 10 years – from the year 2000 to 2009 [...]
Prospect Ramblings: What Your 2020 First Round Pick Says About You
If you’re a millennial like me, or a Gen-Z like many other readers, you’re likely familiar with TikTok and the various trends that the video-based social media platform is famous for. If not, [...]
Roll of the Dice: 2020 Mock Draft – Chaos Edition
Every June, the hockey community becomes saturated with mock drafts. Everyone and their dog takes a swing at predicting how the entry draft will shake out. Every year, they’re wrong. So this year, while [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Decade of Drafting Preview
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings, thanks to my last month series on players drafted too high, developed improperly, or injured (see here for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017-2019) it gave me a new idea [...]
We Have A Draft Lottery (Or Two)!
Photo courtesy of NHL.com The wait is over. We finally know what is going on. Kind of. The NHL and Commissioner Gary Bettman released a video out of Gary Bettman's man [...]
Prospect Ramblings: The NHL Draft and Looking back at Last Years Top-50 Prospects
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow [...]