The 2025-26 NCAA season has come to a close with the Denver Pioneers capturing the 2026 NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship on April 11, 2026. NIL funds changed the game as high-end players, such as future 2026 first-rounders Gavin McKenna (Penn State) and Keaton Verhoeff (North Dakota), flocked to college hockey to prepare [...]
The college hockey season provides postseason action over the next two weeks as the road to the Frozen Four. The upcoming tournament takes 16 willing teams and narrows them down to four regional winners to advance to the Frozen Four in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 9 and April 11. This year’s tournament is missing [...]
While the hockey world was locked in on the United States of America overcoming Canada for the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, the college season has continued its breakneck journey to the end of the 2025-26 campaign. With only a handful of scheduled series left before conference tournament time kicks off, the [...]
As the NHL takes a three-week break for the 2o26 Winter Olympics in a few weeks, the NCAA season is rounding the homestretch of the regular season following the annual holiday and World Junior break. With a full complement of players available in college hockey, Midwest hockey squads have the NCAA in a choke-hold in [...]
There was not a ton of action over the last month of the NCAA season, as things slowed down a bit between the American Thanksgiving holiday and the celebrations for the 2026 New Year. Top-ranked Michigan retains its position at the top of the polls, with the top 10 looking familiar to our last check-in [...]
Parity reigns supreme in the college hockey world with all teams in the American landscape suffering at least two losses on the 2025-26 campaign as the calendar reaches American Thanksgiving. There was a reshuffling of the order in the top 10 in the U.S. College Hockey Online (USCHO) Division I Men’s Poll after Michigan State’s [...]
The NCAA men’s hockey season is underway, and there has been parity in the new-look college scene following changes to eligibility rules that allowed CHL players to skate in NCAA games. Several high-profile names transitioned from the CHL to college, including the projected top picks in the 2026 NHL draft - forward Gavin McKenna to [...]
After a long wait, it's finally here: the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft. While in previous updates we’ve kept our rankings slimmer, this time around, we went through the long process of fleshing out our entire top 96. While a lot has been made about the strength of this [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1GlkcUKGCQ Welcome back! In our first video of the year, our scouting team will be sitting down to discuss some of the top names to come out of the United States this season. Namely, we'll be looking at James Hagens, Cullen Potter, Logan Hensler, Sascha Boumedienne, Ryker Lee, Ben Kevan, Carter Amico, Vaclav Nestrasil, Shane [...]
We’re back! As regular seasons draw to a close around the hockey world, the Dobber Prospects’ team is taking our chance to get one last word in before playoffs start. With so much time between rankings, we certainly saw a lot of movement. Those changes start at the top, with our top four flip-flopping and [...]
