Image Courtesy of The Athletic Welcome back to my weekly Prospect Ramblings. Some weeks are structured, some are a little more loose and random thoughts. This week is the latter. We're just going to go over some of the thoughts from the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and the early week in the prospect [...]
Miro Heiskanen keeps doing Miro Heiskanen things. He and Eeli Tolvanen have been named to the Finnish Olympic team. {source}<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="fi"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoStars?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoStars</a> prospect Miro Heiskanen scored in a 2-0 exhibition win over Czech Republic. <a href="https://twitter.com/seanshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@seanshapiro</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/StarsInsideEdge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StarsInsideEdge</a> <a href="https://t.co/gwt0rVB7vn">pic.twitter.com/gwt0rVB7vn</a></p>— Finnish jr hockey (@FINjrhockey) <a href="https://twitter.com/FINjrhockey/status/962630257063923712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">11. helmikuuta 2018</a></blockquote>https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js{/source} Kristian [...]
The 2018 Winter Olympics are coming up fast, and like it, hate it or even if you are indifferent to the fact that NHL players will not be participating in the event this year, it will lend an opportunity to do a little fantasy hockey prospecting. With NHL player and AHL players under NHL contract [...]
Miro Heiskanen is named to Finland's Olympic roster. We’re back for another riveting installment of the DobberProspects’ Fantasy Mailbag. I’ve coerced questions from various locations and have assembled a nice array of [...]
Finland's U18 Squad With the Liiga on Christmas break, let us turn our attention to the upcoming World Junior Championship tournament that is set to begin on Dec. 26th in Buffalo. Team Finland was a dumpster fire last year, barely avoiding [...]
If you’re anything like me, boxing day holds a special place in your heart. No, it’s not the hours of lining up outside of big box stores for their door crashing sales and the subsequent videos of human beings trampling their fellow man to save a couple bucks off a piece of technology that [...]
This week we’re going to dig into three draft-plus one players who are off to tremendous starts in their respective European professional leagues. Eeli Tolvanen, Elias Pettersson and Miro Heiskanen are making some of Europe’s top pro circuits look like pee wee house leagues. Each is doing so by a harnessing their [...]
2017 NHL Draft Final Rankings Peter Harling - June 7, 2017 There was plenty of movement in my final draft rankings, some minor, some significant. Making the top 31 this month are centers Josh Norris, and Robert Thomas. That bumped out Kole Lind and Henri Jokiharju. Again no goalies are projected in the first round [...]
2017 NHL Draft Rankings April 28, 2017 Peter Harling 1. Nolan Patrick, Centre, 6-3, 198 (Brandon, WHL) Has all the tools, size, skill, skating, smarts; Jack of all trades – master of none. 2. Nico Hischier, Centre, 6-1, 176 (Halifax, QMJHL) Dynamic offensive centre, but plays solid defensively as well. 3. Casey Mittelstadt, Centre, 6-1, [...]
The U18 World Championship is over and the USA took the Gold Medal, Finland claims Silver while Russia finished with the Bronze. For the USA, it is their tenth Gold and 15th overall Medal. The USNTDP has had a lot of success having their national team play together for the season and the U18 typically [...]
