I have to admit, in the midst of the hockey void we've been living in over the past several months, it's been easy for me to develop tunnel vision on particular aspects of the prospect world. For the most part, I've been spending the last several weeks covering topics relating to the pending NHL [...]
Welcome to the Thursday Ramblings where I begin a series, I discussed two weeks ago and had the idea for a while ago. Let me get to a quick story of how I came about this idea: For some reason I always felt like players from either the AJHL or BCHL never turn [...]
The 2018-19 U.S. National Team Development Program squad lined up for the anthem at USA Hockey Arena in Plymouth, MI. The 2001-born U.S. National Team Development Program team that commanded so much of the talk in the lead-up to the 2019 NHL Draft was up there with the strongest single collections of [...]
What NHL franchise has the best prospects? That can be a difficult and subjective question to answer. To give it our best shot, the senior staff at DobberProspects has collaborated to give our personal rankings for each team. With that, we have established a consensus ranking. Peter Harling (Content Manager) has put together a team [...]
It's been 85 days since the NHL paused the 2019-20 season. That's more than 12 weeks without hockey, but it feels like 12 years. My last half-d0zen ramblings have been honed in on the upcoming draft, which the NHL has teased us with, only to snatch it back with little more than a vague [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings and coincidentally the first ever on the internet: NHL 2020 Re-Draft. I have been to the future, five years exactly, and I can tell you what every player looks like development-wise in the 2025 off season, which is coincidentally where I wrote a majority of the [...]
The NHL Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed ‘Team of the Month’, and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look at a player. This month the [...]
2020-21 DobberProspects Organizational Rankings What NHL franchise has the best prospects? That can be a difficult and subjective question to answer. To give it our best shot, the senior staff at DobberProspects has collaborated to give our personal rankings for each team. With that, we have established a consensus ranking. Peter Harling (Content Manager) has [...]
This is the third and final article about the topic of finding NHL players from NHL Drafts. I have been going through a span of 10 years – from the year 2000 to 2009 – and reviewing the results from different angles. In the first article (link), I focused on general probabilities of finding [...]
If you’re a millennial like me, or a Gen-Z like many other readers, you’re likely familiar with TikTok and the various trends that the video-based social media platform is famous for. If not, here’s a sample - it’s been an entertaining way to pass the time during these times of social isolation to [...]
