Prospect Ramblings: Cold Caufield, Rashevsky’s Red-Hot Start, a Word on Kayumov
Welcome to my ramblings, where I’ll be writing down my thoughts on NHL and draft-eligible prospects once a week. I’ll be using the ramblings to keep you posted on the week's events, and let you [...]
PNHLe: Early Evaluations
It has been far too long since I have had the opportunity to sit down and record some thoughts on some interesting prospects that are making noise early on this season. I hope this is [...]
Shift Work: Alexander Nikishin
Image courtesy of https://bestsport.news Welcome back to Shift Work! The series where I take a look at a draft-eligible player and breakdown a game tape. I’ll be bringing you some comprehensive breakdowns of a player’s game as we go over an entire game of tape from a player. We [...]
Prospect Ramblings: Projecting Team Finland for the WJC in 2020 & 2021 (Oct 21)
The 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship tournament will be played in Czech Republic. It starts on December 26th, 2019 and the gold medals will be handed to the champions on January 5th, 2020. Here is my early projection of what Team Finland – the reigning champions – could [...]
Prospect Ramblings: CHL Risers and Fallers
*** There's been some great DobberProspects coverage of the U17 Tournament of late, so as a diversion I thought I'd jump into the Canadian Major Junior leagues to pick out some players who are seeing their fantasy stocks rise or fall now approximately 10 games into the season. These [...]
Tournament Preview: 2019 World U17 Hockey Challenge
The World Under-17 Hockey Challenge is the premier event for those who want to look beyond the upcoming draft class and get an early look at most of the top prospects eligible for the 2021 NHL Draft and some of the top prospects for the 2022 NHL Draft as [...]
Mid-Season 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Prospect Awards
The DobberProspects writers are pleased to introduce to you our inaugural awards feature, the Prospect Fantasy Hockey Awards. The Awards are broken down into two categories, one for all amateur prospects and one for pro [...]
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. [...]
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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 […]