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 [...]
After a long wait, it's finally here: the Dobber Prospects Draft Team’s Final Ranking for the 2025 NHL Draft. While in previous updates we’ve kept our rankings slimmer, this time around, we went through the long process of fleshing out our entire top 96. While a lot has been made about the strength of this [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1GlkcUKGCQ Welcome back! In our first video of the year, our scouting team will be sitting down to discuss some of the top names to come out of the United States this season. Namely, we'll be looking at James Hagens, Cullen Potter, Logan Hensler, Sascha Boumedienne, Ryker Lee, Ben Kevan, Carter Amico, Vaclav Nestrasil, Shane [...]
We’re back! As regular seasons draw to a close around the hockey world, the Dobber Prospects’ team is taking our chance to get one last word in before playoffs start. With so much time between rankings, we certainly saw a lot of movement. Those changes start at the top, with our top four flip-flopping and [...]
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 [...]
On this episode of the DraftCast, Tony is joined by Dylan Krill, a USHL scout for FC Hockey! They preview the Biosteel All-American Game, the USHL draft showcase event. Going through the rosters and chatting about some of the likely stars of the event and also talk about a few guys who could put themselves [...]
Photo courtesy of the U.S. NTDP and Rena Laverty On April 7th, 2021, USA Hockey will host its annual All-American game for draft-eligible players in the United States. The United States National Development Program will face off against top players in the USHL. I decided it would be fun to list some [...]
Photo courtesy of the Sioux Fall Stampede In hockey, having good center depth is very important to an NHL franchise. Lucky for the NHL teams preparing for the upcoming draft, there are quite a few potential top centers coming out of the leagues in the USA region that are pretty exciting to [...]
