January OHL Report: World Juniors Edition
STL - Adam Jiricek, D (Brantford Bulldogs) OHL: 25GP - 10G, 19A, 29PTS WJC-20: 5GP - 4G, 1A, 5PTS 16th overall, 2024; Height: 6-2; Weight: 185 lbs With five points in five games, Jiricek has [...]
World Junior Championship: Round Robin Recap
The round robin is complete, and the stakes don’t get any lower. The best is yet to come at the World Junior Championships as the calendar turns to 2026 and the eight remaining teams will [...]
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 and those who hope to hear their names called in June. Matvei Korotky - SKA-1946 [...]
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 prospects from different leagues who could help in a run for the Calder Cup. That [...]
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 the NCAA, the Max Kaminsky Award winner as the OHL’s defenceman of the year, and [...]
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 events on the draft calendar, signaling a last opportunity for prospects to make an impression [...]
Organizational Rankings 6. San Jose Sharks
6. San Jose Sharks - 85.9 overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The San Jose Sharks clock in as the 6th best prospect pools. While they currently lack that elite talent, that may change [...]
Organizational Rankings 7. Buffalo Sabres
7. Buffalo Sabres - 85.5 Overall Top 15 Prospects Individual Breakdown: The Sabres come in at number seven in our ranks and that is led by Zach Benson, who surprisingly stayed in the NHL [...]
Organizational Rankings 8. Philadelphia Flyers
8 - Philadelphia - Score: 83.9 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Matvei Michkov9.52Tyson Foerster7.33Bobby Brink6.74Oliver Bonk6.65Emil Andrae6.16Egor Zamula5.47Samuel Ersson5.28Massimo Rizzo5.19Ronnie Attard4.710Samu Tuomaala4.611Aleksei Kolosov4.112Denver Barkey3.913Olle Lycksell2.614Carson Bjarnason2.415Helge Grans2.0 Individual Breakdown Forward: Philly’s top-ranked Forward prospect, Matvei Michkov scored [...]
Organizational Rankings 9. Utah
9 - Utah - Score: 82.8 Top 15 Prospects RankNameScore1Logan Cooley9.02Dylan Guenther8.03Dmitriy Simashev7.44Conor Geekie7.25Danil But7.06Michael Hrabal5.47Maveric Lamoureux5.38Josh Doan5.09Jan Jenik4.210Victor Soderstrom4.111Artem Duda3.912Sam Lipkin3.213Michael Kesselring3.114Aku Raty2.115Miko Matikka2.0 Individual Breakdown Forwards: The newest NHL franchise has a solid spread [...]
Organizational Rankings 10. Detroit Red Wings
10 - Detroit Red Wings - Score: 82.7 Top 15 Prospects RankPlayerPositionScore1Axel Sandin PellikkaD7.82Simon EdvinssonD7.73Nate DanielsonC6.94Marco KasperC6.85Jonatan BerggrenW6.66Sebastian CossaG6.57Dmitri BuchelnikovLW5.48Trey AugustineG5.09Carter MazurLW4.610William WallinderD4.611Elmer SoderblomLW/RW4.212Shai BuiumD3.713Albert JohanssonD2.714Amadeus LombardiC2.515Redmond SavageC1.9 Individual Breakdown Forwards: Detroit has repeatedly perplexed [...]
Organizational Rankings 11. Nashville Predators
11 – Nashville Predators – Score: 81.8 Top 15 Prospects Team Player Position Score Fantrax Roster % 1 Yaroslav Askarov G 8.7 41% 2 Joakim Kemell RW 7.1 27% 3 Luke Evangelista RW 6.9 39% [...]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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