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 [...]
The NHL Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed ‘Team of the Month’, and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look at a player. This month the [...]
Photo courtesy of the Canadian Hockey League With the recent news of the NHL and NHLPA agreeing upon a return-to-play format, it comes with the hope that certain timelines will follow in the near future. That means an increase in the amount of pre-draft hype that will circulate most social media [...]
After the first article about NHL Draft Pick Probabilities (link) was released, there were some asking for something similar but with different player positions being separated to see if there are any differences there. That raised my interest, so I decided to use the same data I had already available to see what type [...]
Welcome to the Thursday prospect ramblings. It is time to continue my current series of Drafted too high, developed improperly or injury-related for prospects from the past NHL drafts. Here are the past ramblings I have written so far: 2014: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2014/ 2015: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2015/ 2016: https://dobberprospects.com/prospect-ramblings-drafted-too-high-developed-improperly-or-injury-related-2016/ These ramblings will have a different take [...]
Whenever an NHL draft is approaching, the excitement level and hype around the players go through the roof. It’s an exciting time for sure but it seems like most people don’t have realistic expectations when it comes to the draft. To help with that, I decided to look at a 10-year span of draft [...]
The NHL Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed ‘Team of the Month’, and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look at a player. This month the [...]
The Montreal 2020 Draft Logo March Draft Report is a monthly column that highlights a number of topics in the NHL Draft world at the time. Each month will have the main feature story, a themed 'Team of the Month' and a Prospect Spotlight that takes a bit of a deeper look [...]
USNTDP U18 Team prior to a game against the University of Minnesota What have you been up to during the COVID-19 social distancing and quarantines? That's the main question I asked the players who had their final U.S. National Team Development Progam season cut short. I was granted a bit of access [...]
Bob McKenzie just released his highly anticipated mid-season draft ranking, and I also had the pleasure of getting an early look at Cam Robinson's upcoming ranking (it should be published soon!), so now is a perfect time to provide an update to our consolidated 2019 NHL Entry Draft rankings. Here's a link to our [...]
