We’ve finally reached the end of draft season, which means the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking has arrived. The team presents an article featuring 105 draft eligible players for the 2026 NHL Draft. Compared to our mid-year ranking, there have been modest changes within the top-10 of the draft, and more stark changes through [...]
The hockey season is in full swing as we approach one of the marquee events on the scouting calendar—the World Junior Championship—making this a perfect time to release our second ranking of the draft cycle. There has been a fair amount of movement since our preliminary board in September. What initially looked like a promising [...]
Welcome back to the beginning of another NHL Draft cycle with the Dobber Prospects Draft Team. This year comes with a swath of changes to our group, bringing some exciting infusions of new blood into our ranks. Among the people we’ve added—whose info you can locate below—you’ll find a group of highly motivated and knowledgeable [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning – 56 Top 15 Prospects Rank Player Position Score Fantrax Roster % 1. Isaac Howard LW 6.2 15% 2. Hugo Alnefelt G 5.7 11% 3. Ethan Gauthier RW 5.6 10% 4. Niko Huuhtanen RW 5.3 3% 5. Gage Goncalves C 4.7 3% 6. Dylan Duke C 4.0 3% 7. Jack Finley C [...]
32. Pittsburgh Penguins – 51.8 Harling – 53 High – 49 Quinn – 51.5 Rines – 53 Gehrels – 47 Nuno – 60 Itovitch - 49 The rebuild era in Pittsburgh is coming. This past summer the Penguins decided to resign aging core veterans Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, rather than trade them as [...]
Photo courtesy of the Chicago Wolves/AHL The NHL-CHL agreement has long been a complaint amongst fans, and even NHL teams to an extent. It is simple at its root. The base of it is that players have to be either 20 years old or have played four seasons in junior hockey before [...]
On this episode of the DraftCast, Tony is joined by Will from Scouching.ca to go through a thought experiment. With the NHL looking to possibly move the NHL Draft due to the feeling that they won't get a good read based on the lack of consistent play across all leagues and level in the sport, [...]
On this episode of the DraftCast, Tony is joined once again by Brayden Olafson, DobberProspects QMJHL Scout, and the pair breaks down the pre-season favourites for the NHL's Rookie of the Year and then we make our picks for the Calder as well as a lightning round through the other NHL awards! We couldn't leave [...]
With the 2020-2021 National Hockey League season having just begun, all eyes are on the league's newest prospects to see which will live up to the expectations placed upon them. Sometimes, a prospect can draw the ire of a fanbase when their rate of production in the NHL does not quickly reflect the hype that [...]
Photo courtesy of NHL.com We have had a rough year. I don't think that's an unusual statement. There are so many things that happened this year that have made 2020 a year to forget and so many others that have made this such an impactful year that will weigh on our minds [...]
