DobberProspects Florida Panthers prospect writer Ben Gehrels joins the show to talk Top Prospects for Florida Panthers. Prospects discussed on this episode include Spencer Knight 6:07 Anton Lundell 12:47 Grigori Denisenko 15:54 Aleksi Heponiemi 24:07 Mackie Samoskevich 28:09 Michael Benning 31:17 John Ludvig 35:30 Ty Smilanic 42:08 Max Gildon 46:24 Olli Juolevi 49:36 Logan Hutsko [...]
The 31-in-31 Summer Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in November 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 December 31-in-31 Series will dive into every team’s prospect depth charts with fantasy insights and implications [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to my bi-weekly ramblings. This week we are taking a look at some of the players that are on the roster bubble and their likelihood of making the NHL roster out of training camp. These are all players that are looking to make their respective NHL teams and have a realistic shot [...]
This weeks Ramblings will have a heavy focus on the draft as NHL Central Scouting released their Midseason rankings and here at DobberProspects we released our Fantasy Rankings. First let’s look at our Fantasy Rankings. This is an annual list I put together with contributions from some senior writers and in addition I get some [...]
Florida has done a great job of drafting and developing their players. The Panthers are a young team with a core of impressive youth the like of Alex Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau, Nick Bjugstad, Vincent Trocheck, Aaron Ekblad, and Mike Matheson. The Pipeline isn’t depleted either as there are plenty of quality prospects both ready now [...]
The Panthers entered the 2017 draft in an interesting situation. To the surprise of many (including myself), Florida chose to expose their leading goal scorer from last season in Jonathan Marchessault, and proceeded to trade another of their top 6 forwards in Reilly Smith to Vegas. Combine that with the departure of Jaromir Jagr, and [...]
After their most successful regular season in franchise history, clinching the Atlantic Division title, the Florida Panthers have had a busy off-season. The Panthers brought in front office staff changes, starting with moving former GM Dale Tallon to President of Hockey Operations and Associate General Manager Tom Row moving to the General Manager position. They [...]
Welcome back to my weekly Prospects Ramblings column! While I had planned on unveiling a mock draft that was conducted by myself and a few other members of the scouting community, the multiple seven game series have delayed that to next week. Stay tuned, as I’ll unveil the first round next Friday, coupled with the [...]
