Prospect Ramblings: Initial Reaction from the OHL Season Cancellation
Well, this sucks. There's no way around it. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the plans of everyone in and outside of hockey. We've had to isolate, social distance, wear masks, and make [...]
Prospect Ramblings – Prospect Trade deadline Grades
Welcome to the Thursday Prospect Ramblings, with the trade deadline “snoozily” passing by I thought I would grade the trades based on the prospect / pick returns. It will be a different way [...]
August 31-in-31: Toronto Maple Leafs
*** Welcome to the August 2019 edition of the DobberProspects 31-in-31 Series! This month, we will be diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their Top 20 prospects, risers, fallers, and recent graduates. Let’s dive in! *** Graduating players We were 99% certain they would graduate [...]
DPR Episode 62: Joel Henderson WHL, Calgary Flames
We received a lot of positive feedback from episode 59 on the "So You Want To Be A Scout" Segment. Peter opens this show with a follow up to that with some examples of people that have made the jump from the hockey blogging community to a hockey job. There [...]
DPR Episode 61: Mason Black, NHL Rank King, OHL Preview
Episode 61, the first episode of the fourth season of DooberProspects Radio opens with a primer of fantasy hockey draft guides. With the fantasy season fast approaching and lots of you are preparing for upcoming drafts, Peter breaks down what guides to buy Dobber Guides are your bible. If [...]
Season Preview: Jr. A SM-liiga
We can finally begin the Finnish hockey season tomorrow with the Jr. A SM-liiga (U20 league) starting. I’ll be going over every team and mentioning relevant players from those teams. Because on many cases we don’t have the exact rosters, I’m trying my best to guess which players should [...]
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2018 NHL Draft: Top 10 Goalies
*** Join us monthly for 2018 Draft Content courtesy of prospect expert Steve Kournianos (aka @TheDraftAnalyst)! *** 1. Jakub Skarek (Jihavla, Czech Extraliga | 6’3, 196): Nightmarish world juniors notwithstanding, Skarek remains the draft’s top [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Second-half drop-offs by pre-NHL experience
*** With the All-Star break upon us and the second half of the season ahead, we enter the dog days of the season where many players off to promising starts begin to slow down. What [...]
Advanced Stat Series – Value of Differing Metrics
The modern advent of public data and websites providing new sports metrics to evaluate players has become somewhat of a double-edged sword. On one hand, the democratization of sports statistic analysis has resulted [...]
Prospect Ramblings: CHL Top Prospects Game, Yamamoto Rises & AHL All Stars
The big news of Thursday evening was the CHL Top Prospects Game. The top 2018 draft eligible players from around the Canadian Hockey League have descended upon Guelph, Ontario to strut their stuff. [...]
Prospect Ramblings: AHL All Star Replacements, Kostin, and the Rangers – January 25 2018
Is it really Thursday again? Why yes it is. You get to read what I write, yay! This week’s PQ’s rambling will be on a Kostin (who I traded for in a keeper [...]
Prospect Mailbag: How The 2018 Class Stacks Up, Most NHL-Ready Prospects and NHLe
Miro Heiskanen is named to Finland's Olympic roster. We’re back for another [...]