Every June, the hockey community becomes saturated with mock drafts. Everyone and their dog takes a swing at predicting how the entry draft will shake out. Every year, they’re wrong. So this year, while we have extra time waiting for the draft to occur, our Western League Scout, Joel Henderson created the Chaos Mock [...]
Welcome to the Thursday ramblings, thanks to my last month series on players drafted too high, developed improperly, or injured (see here for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017-2019) it gave me a new idea on a series. I want to look at the decades of drafting from the North American leagues that are not [...]
Photo courtesy of NHL.com The wait is over. We finally know what is going on. Kind of. The NHL and Commissioner Gary Bettman released a video out of Gary Bettman's man cave to fill the hockey world in on what the plan is for the return to play format, how the [...]
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow in the near future. That means an increase in the amount of pre-draft hype that will circulate most social media [...]
Jake Neighbours lines up for a faceoff against the Prince Albert Raiders. Photo courtesy of the oilkings.ca I had the chance to jump on a Zoom call with Edmonton Oil Kings forward Jake Neighbours. The 2020 draft-eligible prospect was having a strong year with 70 points in 64 games. We chatted about [...]
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 [...]
After the first article about NHL Draft Pick Probabilities (link) was released, there were some asking for something similar but with different player positions being separated to see if there are any differences there. That raised my interest, so I decided to use the same data I had already available to see what type [...]
Historically, one of my most common faults in assessing the immediate future of prospects in the fantasy arena is expecting production from rising prospects, who simply may not have an opportunity. If you’re a regular reader, you might’ve noticed that recently, I’ve begun to put an enormous amount of emphasis on discussing what [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. It is time to continue my current series of Drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related for prospects from the past NHL drafts. Here are the past ramblings I have written so far: 2014: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2014/ 2015: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2015/ 2016: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2016/ These ramblings will have a different take [...]
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 [...]
