September 32-in-32: Washington Capitals
Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series! This month, we will be diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers and top 20 [...]
August/September 32-in-32: Vegas Golden Knights
The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! In August we completed breakdown of a team’s draft and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up, the September [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Post-Thanksgiving Thoughts
Image Courtesy of The Athletic Welcome back to my weekly Prospect Ramblings. Some weeks are structured, some are a little more loose and random thoughts. This week is the latter. We're just going to go over some of the thoughts from the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and the [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Calder Power Rankings
This summer I had the opportunity to make my first ever contribution to the Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide under the section of Calder Candidates for the 2019-20 NHL season. With the NHL campaign now finally rolling, I thought it might be appropriate to take advantage of my bi-weekly [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Junior Tournament in Finland (Oct 15)
This past weekend, I made a four-hour trip to the city of Lappeenranta because their organization SaiPa was hosting a tournament where 10 Jr. A SM-liiga teams were playing against each other in two arenas that were very near each other. Well, it was a tournament-like event but they [...]
Prospects Rambling: First NHL Goals
image courtesy of Winnipeg Free Press *** I've been patient, I've held off a couple weeks until I had a big batch of clips for this article, and I think its finally time to post my first First NHL Goals post of the season! If you've read my [...]
OHL Report: OHLers dominate the CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game
On Wednesday night, 40 of the CHL’s best NHL draft-eligible prospects gathered in Guelph, ON for an ultimate showdown. The two teams were broken up and played under hockey legends, Don Cherry and Eric [...]
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 [...]
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