It's finally here. After much deliberation, a two-hour-long meeting and hundreds of cumulative viewings, the DobberProspects scouting team is ready to reveal our top 64 prospects for the 2024 NHL Draft. Between the World Juniors, the U18 Five Nations tournament, and lots and lots of league tape, much has changed in our evaluation of [...]
2023 NHL Draft Fantasy Rankings If you are not winning or competing in your fantasy league, this is a good year to be tanking. The NHL Draft for 2023 is littered with potential impact fantasy players and at the tip of the sword is the crown jewel, Connor Bedard. Each year the senior writers at [...]
The Chicago Steel once again have made headlines as one of the more powerful teams in the USHL. The Steel currently have six players in the top eleven in points scored out of the entire league. Jack Harvey is currently representing the Steel and leading the league with 23 goals, 18 assists for 41 [...]
Peter has ranked the 2022 NHL Draft class and guest Hadi Kalakeche joins this episode to breakdown the rankings. The rankings were determined by several factors: NHL actual draft position NHL team that drafted them Point projection, upside and ceiling Positional bias with emphasis on forwards Projection of multi-cat stats. Here are the rankings: 1. [...]
Feature image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong I got in six games with Kamloops and eight at the U18s, including the exhibition game. That’s fourteen games total this season. MY DRAFT YEAR Team-wise, we didn’t really know what to expect. We felt we had a young team this year, in Kamloops. [...]
Courtesy of NHL.com Team JYP Jyväskylä (Liiga) Birth 2002-11-26, Järvenpää, FIN Position C Shoots L Height 199 cm / 6’6’’ Weight 94 kg / 207 lbs Brief scouting report Samuel Helenius is a defensive-minded two-way center with an occasional offensive contribution. He is very responsible defensively and brings physical impact to [...]
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 [...]
Photo courtesy of JYP Jyväskylä On this installment of Game Tape, Tony is joined by JYP Jyväskylä defender Valtteri Koskela. They talk about his season split between the U20 level and the Liiga, what playing with his brother Santeri is like, and so much more! When they start breaking down tape, they [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft, tentatively scheduled for July, will be one of the most unique in the history of the league. There have been a number of challenges for players, teams, coaches, and scouts alike. That's not to say the work stopped for any of those people [...]
In the episode of the DraftCast, Tony is joined by almost all of DobberProspects Scouting team as they conduct their midseason 2021 NHL Draft Rankings meeting! They discuss the top-70 players on their board before rounding out the top-100 off the pod. This marathon episode shows most of the behind-the-scenes conversation that went into the [...]
