Photo courtesy of https://www.southernminn.com/ The NHL Trade Deadline has come and gone with six teams coming out on the other side with no first-round pick this year, five of which were traded and Arizona's being forfeited. Trading a first-round pick to bolster your current roster is a practice that's become commonplace for [...]
On this week's DraftCast, Tony is joined by WHL aficionado Joel Henderson to take a tour around the WHL and western Canada in general. They discuss Joel's newest venture as he joined Puck Preps recently, focusing in on the WHL Draft and bantam age players more! Tony and Joel discuss some of the best 2004 [...]
In this episode of the DraftCast, Tony is joined by DobberProspects QMJHL Scout Brayden Olaf as the co-host of the week! They start with Jokke Nevalainen joining the Caroline Hurricanes scouting staff, the reason he won't be on the DraftCast moving forward. They also cover the news and notes from around the prospect world. The [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn’t even have a [...]
Image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Usually around this time of the year, the current year's NHL Entry Draft would have happened over a month ago and scouts would have moved on from it. This is also the time when the Hlinka Gretzky Cup usually starts the new scouting season. But this is [...]
In these strange times, we have been forced to find unique ways to get things done. From scouting meetings to player interviews and everything in between, almost everything has been done on video calls via Zoom or Skype. While the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup has been canceled this year because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Hockey [...]
Photo Courtesy of IIHF.com The 2020 NHL Draft hasn't happened and at this point, thanks to COVID-19, we don't know exactly when it will happen but it's never too early to start looking ahead to the 2021 draft class. The beauty of next season is that we don't have an Alexis Lafrenière-level prospect. [...]
