Episode 52 deep dives with USHL Scout Dave MacDonald as he joins the show to review the OHL Cup final, Shane Wright who is headed to the Kingston Frontenacs as the Sixth player to be granted exceptional status following John Tavares, Connor McDavid, Sean Day, Aaron Ekblad, and Joe Veleno. Dave also talks about Adam [...]
The DPR show is back! Host Peter Harling takes a quick look at some early standouts from the AHL and the OHL in terms of prospects gaining fantasy hockey distinction. Peter also has a segment where he takes your questions and gives some answers that you the listener are asking. Thanks to those who submitted [...]
With the OHL season now underway, I’ll take a look at some of the most interesting storylines as we kick off the season. The London Knights have a large predicament on their hands here. Each team has two international spots to fill on their team, but the Knights have three players who fit into [...]
Brayden Olofson The quarter-finals have been set for the U18 World Championships in Russia. A tremendous variety of talent has been showcased throughout the round-robin play, featuring top-prospects for the next three NHL entry-drafts; four if you count 15-year-old Frenchman Flavian Dair who won’t be eligible until 2021. The 2019 class has been particularly [...]
*** There's been some good Canadian Junior Hockey playoff content lately, and there will be much more to come as playoffs in all three leagues are underway, with the first rounds nearly wrapped up. Here's a quick debrief of the OHL bracket for those of us lacking the free time to catch all the action: [...]
The CHL regular season has ended and the junior teams are gearing up for the Playoffs to begin this coming weekend. Likewise the NCAA regular season is over and the brackets for March Madness (Hockey Style) are set and will commence soon as well. This means for fantasy hockey scouts, the time to scour the [...]
*** This was an excellent week for player evaluation content. First and foremost - our very own Cam Robinson put out his Top 100 Draft rankings. This is a must-read for prospect junkies, check it out here: https://dobberprospects.com/cam-robinsons-2018-nhl-draft-rankings-top-100-march-2018/ The second exciting release this week was the OHL Coaches Poll results. Pretty self explanatory - [...]
It’s about mid-season now, so I figured it’s a good time to check scoring numbers from the Canadian Hockey League. Because this is a fantasy hockey site, I’m only going to look at players who are either first-time draft eligible, have been drafted by an NHL team, or have been signed by an NHL [...]
Prospects News Peter and Aynsley discuss some prospect news starting with the prospects Colorado Avalanche GM Joe Sakic acquired in the Matt Duchene trade and the fantasy outlook for Sam Girard, and Vladislav Kamenev. Sticking with trade talk, they discuss some CHL trades including PHI prospect German Rubtsov and Habs Cale Fleury. The Russian [...]
Kathryn Jean It’s the end of October and that only means one thing for major junior hockey in Canada - the Canada/Russia Series is right around the corner. In existence since 2003, this series consists of Russian junior players facing off against the three CHL member leagues in a six-game showdown. The CHL has the [...]
