Anni Karvinen’s Final 2025 Draft Ranking
Even though my work this season at Dobber has focused mainly on skaters playing in the USA and Finland (big sigh), I’ve put together a final ranking that reflects my opinion on the top players [...]
Whittaker Heart’s Final 2025 Rankings
Whittaker Heart began the year as our North American Crossover Scout and, as a result, has spent a long time pondering over a breadth of Draft-Eligible prospects this season. Below, you'll find his top 64, [...]
Director’s Cut: How I’m Feeling About the 2025 Draft
While we fill out plenty of scouting reports, formulate rankings, and endlessly discuss and dissect players amongst ourselves, I feel like our opportunities to discuss the draft as a whole are far fewer. Especially as Director—as our rankings are done as a team—I feel I don’t often have the chance [...]
Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s 2025 NHL Draft Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZzEvthEaso If you've finished looking over our team's full top 96 and are looking for some more insight into our process, you've come to the right place. In the below video, our whole draft team will be sitting down to discuss and debate the entire first round, giving you a [...]
Dobber Prospects’ 2025 Draft Final Ranking
After a long wait, it's finally here: the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft. While in previous updates we’ve kept our rankings slimmer, this time around, we went through the long process of fleshing out our entire top 96. While a lot has been made [...]
Dobber Prospects Draft Team: USA Roundup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1GlkcUKGCQ Welcome back! In our first video of the year, our scouting team will be sitting down to discuss some of the top names to come out of the United States this season. Namely, we'll be looking at James Hagens, Cullen Potter, Logan Hensler, Sascha Boumedienne, Ryker Lee, Ben Kevan, [...]
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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 […]
KHL report: Notable 2025 Playoff Performers
As the playoffs near their conclusion in leagues across Russia, some players have put together impressive postseason performances to help their teams. Let’s go around and look at some of these efforts among drafted players [...]
AHL Update: May 2025
Early Takeaways from the AHL Playoffs The month of May brings the playoffs into full frame and it is no different in the AHL. In some ways, it becomes an arms race to add other [...]
The OHL Round Up: April
This month we look at three of the top defencemen in the OHL, all coming out of the 2024 Draft. We’ll look at the biggest CHL prospect to date, to make the jump over to [...]
Takeaways from the Preliminary Round at the 2025 U18 World Championships
I had the opportunity to attend the U18 World Championships in Frisco and Allen, Texas this week, seeing 22 players from Dobber Prospects' most recent ranking. The annual spring U18s are among the most important [...]
Team Sweden’s WJC-18 Preview
By: Ethan Lindley It is surely an exciting time of year in the hockey prospect industry. The U18 World Championship is the last tournament of the season for scouts and analysts to evaluate the best [...]
KHL Report: 2025 Draft-Eligible Prospects (April 2025)
With the NHL draft rapidly approaching and the Russian leagues nearing the end of their playoffs, teams are looking to find impact players in the middle and later rounds. These players play an underrated role [...]