August 32-in-32: Toronto Maple Leafs
The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s Draft, and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following [...]
August 32-in-32 : Tampa Bay Lightning
This past off-season saw the Tampa Bay Lightning make it to the Stanley Cup Finals for the third year in a row. The first two trips resulted in back to back Stanley Cups. For their [...]
Prospect Ramblings: 2021 Calder Candidates – Pacific Division
Welcome back to the third edition of the Prospect Ramblings quarantine mini-series where I’ve been looking into each NHL pipeline with a goal of uncovering each team’s best candidate for the 2021 Calder Trophy. As expected, certain teams have made this activity quite challenging. With the Eastern Conference [...]
DPR Episode 89: Carolina Hurricanes Top Prospects with Mike Dawson Head North American Amateur Scout
Mike Dawson, Head North American Amateur Scout for the Carolina Hurricanes joins the podcast. Mike shares his thoughts on several of Carolinas top prospects, what they like about each player and what the short term future and path to the NHL looks like Players discussed include: Jake Bean (1:45) Ryan [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related 2015
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capitals-insider/wp/2015/06/27/winners-and-losers-from-the-2015-nhl-draft/ Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings where I will continue my project for the next couple of ramblings. If you forget I am taking a look at the past NHL drafts (since 2014) and self-analyzing if the players were: drafted too high, developed improperly or [...]
Talking with Tony: Dylan Peterson 2020 Draft Interview
Photo by Rena Laverty, courtesy of the U.S. NTDP I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Dylan Peterson, a center for the U.S. National Team Development Program. We chatted about his season, his family's role in his development and he tells a funny [...]
USHL Report – January 2018
USHL Report – January, 2018 It is great to be back covering even more prospects from the USHL. The Top Prospects Game was as fun as advertised. There was also a memorable [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Streaking Draft-Eligible Players
Quick Hits Around the CHL for 2019 Draft Hopefuls (Rankings as of the last update – December 2018) WHL Bowen Byram (7th overall) is on a nice little streak. He has [...]
Prospect Ramblings – CHL Trades Galore
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings again. First an update on my World Junior pool from two weeks ago: Name Points Pat Quinn 26 Jordo 19 Darcy 16 Teepu 15 Adogg 15 [...]
DPR Episode 47: World Junior Review with Steven Ellis
Episode 47 is a special edition of the DPR show as the hour plus long interview with guest Steven Ellis reviews the 2019 World Junior Championship. Players discussed include: Brett Leason, Maxime Comtois, Grigori Denisenko, [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Matthew Phillips (10 pts in last 4 AHL games)
Matthew Phillips - Stockton Heat - AHL When I added the profile for Matthew Phillips to DobberProspects for the first time, I watched closely many of his games for the Victoria Royals and gave [...]
Prospect Deep Dive: The Curious Case of Anttoni Honka
Prospects like Moritz Seider and Ville Heinola may seem controversial because North Americans don’t have a chance to watch them frequently, so it surprises people when Europeans rank them so highly. But Anttoni Honka [...]






