OHL Prospect expert Brock Otten joins the podcast for some OHL prospect talk. Brock and Pete discuss some recent player signings in Jacob Ingham, Tyler Tucker, and Noel Hoefenmayer. The talk shifts to top prospects turning pro and what to expect from them in your dynasty leagues. We include Akil Thomas (LAK), Ryan Merkley (SNJ), [...]
Dobber Hockey Capped writer Alex Maclean joins Peter for a record length episode. On this epic show Alex and Peter go over who they would protect from expansion draft for each 30 teams. We used the CapFriendly Seattle Expansion Draft Simulator for this exercise. Then they each take turns picking from each others lists, one player [...]
It seems each year the NCAA keeps producing more and more and better prospects. The NCAA has become quite a feeder league for the NHL and Fantasy Hockey. This year has a weak class of free agent prospects, but a strong crop of drafted players. Joe Meloni from CHN joins the show for another long [...]
If you need to rebuild your fantasy hockey team, this episode is about the strategy options you want to use. 1. Scorched Earth: (2-3 years) - Your team is a dumpster fire! You have no quality long term assets, sell everything for draft picks, prospects and futures * Owning your own draft picks is essential [...]
After watching both an AHL game and the CHL Top Prospects game live in the past week Peter gives some scouting notes and observations from each game. Vitali Abramov and Russ Cohen were interviewed in the intermission of each game (Apologies for background audio) Peter asks Vitali about the differences between junior, AHL and NHL [...]
Brogan Rafferty In last weeks ramblings I mentioned I was going to see Utica play in Belleville with a close eye on Vancouver Canucks prospect Brogan Rafferty. Brogan Rafferty was as advertised, very impressive. He is the Comets top defenseman on a team with deployment in offensive zone faceoffs, short handed and of course the [...]
Back to normal life resumes as the holiday season has concluded along with the World Junior Championship. There has been so much excellent WJC coverage here I decided to go back to a more regular ramblings style, so here goes. On Wednesday I am going to watch the Utica Comets in Bellville as the Canucks [...]
Congratulations to Canada on a Spengler Cup Championship. That tournament wrapped up today and Canada takes Gold again. Not many fantasy hockey relevant prospects compete in this tournament but 2020 NHL Draft eligible Rodion Amirov who failed to crack the Russian World Junior roster played in three games and had a goal. There were also [...]
2020 World Junior preview of Team Canada with special guest Steven Ellis of The Hockey News Steven and Peter review the Canadian roster, the outlook for the tournament. There are questions in goal and more cuts still to come but Canada may be an underrated team this year and may rally around the under dog, [...]
2020 World Junior preview of Team Sweden with guest Jimmy Hamrin of McKeens hockey Jimmy and Peter review the Swedish roster, will this be the year they win a Medal round game, or lose a round robin game? With a big question mark at the center position, and Peter has big questions about the [...]
