The WHL continues to serve as one of the premier development pipelines for NHL talent, and the 2025-26 season is no exception. A new wave of prospects—combining high-end pace, offensive creativity, and dependable two-way play—is capturing the attention of scouts. Leading the pack are dynamic forward Mathis Preston, and high-impact defensemen Ryan Lin and Daxon [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Connor Bedard capped off his first full season in the WHL on Sunday by becoming the youngest player in league history to hit the 50-goal mark. And he did it in typical Connor Bedard fashion: https://twitter.com/TheWHL/status/1515849663617724416?s=20&t=X5EITwj6gavIxRNAMzrZrA The 16-year-old also picked up an empty-net goal and three helpers in a 7-4 win over Moose Jaw. [...]
On this week's DraftCast, Tony is joined by WHL aficionado Joel Henderson to take a tour around the WHL and western Canada in general. They discuss Joel's newest venture as he joined Puck Preps recently, focusing in on the WHL Draft and bantam age players more! Tony and Joel discuss some of the best 2004 [...]
Feature image courtesy of Andrew Armstrong Draft Diaries: Logan Stankoven is going to be an ongoing series in which writer Jeff Rea and Kamloops Blazers forward Logan Stankoven will be collaborating to document Logan’s season. Logan will be providing commentary and quotes, telling the story from his perspective while Jeff helps weave [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn’t even have a [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn’t even have a [...]
Graphic Courtesy of Andrew Armstrong The 2021 NHL Draft is setting up to be one of the most unique in recent memory. There is no clear-cut number one prospect as there is most years with a player such as Alexis Lafrenière or Auston Matthews. The 2021 class has doesn't even have [...]
