The Journey

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll be taking a closer look at what to expect from the Edmonton Oilers for the rest of this year and the coming few seasons. The addition of Evander [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll jump around doing some quick hits—brief observations about prospects from a range of leagues who are worthy of note. First off, four NCAA defencemen have incredibly high PNHLe [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll examine three players who are nearing their Breakout Threshold (BT). Here’s part of Dobber’s definition: “Average-sized forwards (between 5-10 and 6-2, or between 171 and 214 pounds) need [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. At the end of last month, this column did a sink-or-swim article covering Kaapo Kakko, Erik Brannstrom, and Eeli Tolvanen—all young, formerly hyped prospects who seem to be at a crossroads [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we're taking a look at the top candidates to win the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie. Many preseason lists had Cole Caufield at the top of this [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing Fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll take a look at three defenders—one each from the Liiga, SHL, and Allsvenskan—who are all having excellent seasons. All three are perfect examples of “modern” defensemen in the [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll return to Mason Black’s (@NHLRankKing on Twitter) Rank King app to select three under-the-radar prospects with high PNHLe—players who many dynasty owners haven’t heard of who are likely [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. A common dilemma with owning prospects in fantasy is knowing when to part ways with former blue-chippers who are beginning to lose value. Too early and they may still blossom into [...]

Happy Holidays and welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll be considering an interesting aspect of U20 tournaments like the World Juniors: every year, certain players see massive bumps in fantasy value that can be [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing Fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, we’ll continue our retrospective on the 2018 NHL entry draft providing updates on performance since the draft, future outlooks, and pick grades. In case you missed it, check out [...]