****** Welcome to the September 2024 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series. This month, we are diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers, and top-20 prospects. ********** Amid sweeping changes to the Buffalo Sabres' NHL personnel and a current renewal of uncertainty, the steady progress made by [...]
****** Welcome to the August 2023 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series. This month, we are diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers, and top-20 prospects. ********* The Buffalo Sabres and their AHL affiliate Rochester Americans both saw significant impacts from numerous rookie players in 2022-2023. The offensive [...]
Welcome to the September 2022 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series. This month, we are diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers, and top-20 prospects. ************* By: Kevin Wong It seemed unlikely twelve months ago that the Buffalo Sabres would be where they are today. In the months [...]
Joe Yerdon joins the show to review Petes Top Ten Buffalo Sabres Prospects ranking for NHL Trade Rumors Owen Power, jack Quinn, John Peterka, Isak Rosen, Ryan Johnson, Oskari Laaksonen, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Erik Portillo, Arttu, Ruotsalainen, Brett Murray round out the top ten. Honorable mentions went to Mattias Samuelsson, Devon Levi, Linus Weissbach, Lukas Rousak [...]
Welcome to the September 2021 edition of the DobberProspects 32-in-32 Series. This month, we are diving into the depth of each organization, looking at their recent graduates, risers, fallers, and top-20 prospects. ************* By: Kevin Wong Despite the Buffalo Sabres' disastrous regular-season performance in 2020-2021, their campaign featured some exciting glimpses into the organization's future. [...]
The 32-in-32 Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in August we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s draft and insights into their off-season movements thus far. Following this up, the September 32-in-32 Series will dive into every team’s prospect depth charts with fantasy insights and implications for [...]
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The NHL is ushering in a youth movement on the blueline with names like Cale Makar, Quinn Hughes, Miro Heiskanen, Adam Fox. Once thought to be the headliner of the group, Rasmus Dahlin has been mentioned less and less with them recently. Dahlin was touted as the [...]
The Buffalo Sabres' near-decade of futility in the National Hockey League should have produced a very rich and exciting group of prospects to lead the team into the 2020s. With eight top-ten draft selections in the last eight years, including two second-overall choices (Sam Reinhart, 2014; Jack Eichel, 2015) and a first-overall selection [...]
Photo courtesy of the Buffalo Sabres Kevin Wong is the DobberProspects Buffalo Sabres writer and scout and has kept the entire Buffalo Sabres system up to date. Check out the team page here. The 2020 NHL off-season has been shocking but potentially transformative for the floundering Buffalo Sabres. The organization's actions have [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have been working on creating a 1st round lottery, mock draft, and playoff simulator for the NHL Rank King app. When the NHL released their ‘phased lottery system’ I began implementing it as an option to hopefully give a somewhat realistic scenario of what could happen at the [...]
