Pittsburgh - 64.3 Top 15 Prospects Rank Player Position Score Fantrax Roster % 1. Brayden Yager C 7.4 23% 2. Owen Pickering D 6.2 16% 3. Joel Blomqvist G 6.1 11% 4. Valtteri Puustinen RW/LW 5.0 9% 5. Samuel Poulin C/LW 4.9 11% 6. Matthew Phillips* C 3.9 6% 7. Mikhail Ilyin LW/RW 3.7 2% [...]
The 31-in-31 Offseason Series is an annual event here at DobberProspects! Every day in December we will be bringing you a complete breakdown of a team’s prospect depth chart, riser & fallers, and top prospect ranking. **** As Jim Rutherford and the rest of the Penguins front office continues to try and squeeze another Stanley Cup [...]
Kasperi Kapanen at the 2014 Draft. He will reunite with Jim Rutherford, the GM that drafted him in Pittsburgh. Photo courtesy of Bruce Bennett The Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins hooked up for a trade that sent Kasperi Kapanen back to the team that drafted him at 22nd overall in 2014. [...]
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 [...]
What NHL franchise has the best prospects? That can be a difficult and subjective question to answer. To give it our best shot, the senior staff at DobberProspects has collaborated to give our personal rankings for each team. With that we have established a consensus ranking. Peter Harling (Content Manager) has put together a team [...]
Nolan Foote celebrating a goal at the World Juniors Every year around this point of the season, teams start to make moves and improve ahead of the trade deadline. Every trade that goes down is broken down on numerous all-day broadcasts but the one area they seem to lack at times is [...]
| Chad Ruhwedel, D | ||
| Shoots: R | Height: 5-11 | Weight: 180 |
| Born: 1990-5-7 | Hometown: San Diego, CA | Drafted: Undrafted – Signed as free agent |
| David Warsofsky, D | ||
| Shoots: L | Height: 5-9 | Weight: 170 |
| Born: 1990-5-30 | Hometown: Marshfield, MA | Drafted: 2008 4th round 95th overall – St. Louis Blues |
The 2016 Rookie Tournament hosted by London will kick off September 16th until the 18th. It showcases four teams playing a round-robin. The four teams include Montreal, Ottawa, Pittsburgh and Toronto prospects. There will be two games each day. The schedule is posted below. Friday, September 16, 2016 3:35pm – GAME 1 – Pittsburgh [...]
The Penguins needed, and got, significant contributions from prospects en route to a Stanley Cup championship. A case could be made that netminder Matt Murray was Pittsburgh’s playoff MVP. Forwards Conor Sheary, Tom Kühnhackl and Bryan Rust also contributed significantly to the team’s post-season success, while forwards Oskar Sundqvist and Scott Wilson as well as [...]
