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. The 2022-23 season is just around the corner, and in the flurry of fantasy drafts happening recently the question of how to accurately assess, predict, and draft goaltenders continues to frustrate [...]

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, prospect camps and showcases have opened up around the league. As other Dobbers writers have pointed out in recent weeks, insights like “Player A is in the best shape [...]

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 will highlight several small-bodied prospect defencemen with high offensive upside who may be getting overlooked in your league. Plus, we’ll dig into the widespread idea that the emergence [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. In a recent Goldilocks and the Three Skaters article, Rick Roos outlined a series of very realistic concerns about Anton Lundell’s ability to replicate his 56-point pace rookie campaign moving forward. [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. On the one hand, building through the draft in fantasy allows weak teams to acquire high-end assets for free. But when those assets routinely take three-to-five years to start posting meaningful [...]

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 is Bubble Keeper week where the writers at Dobber weigh in on tough keeper decisions, so we will push the next edition of the Exploiting Short Memories series about [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. Fantasy managers have short memories when it comes to young players and prospects. We know this about ourselves. We become intoxicated by “the next big thing” with every new draft class. [...]

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 young defenceman from the 2018 draft who are on the verge of establishing themselves as emerging stars on the back end. One has [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. Many thanks to Curtis Rines for so capably filling in for me the past few weeks while I was on vacation. He examined Andrea Kuzmenko’s realistic upside, graded the first round [...]

Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. After a busy start to this summer’s free agency, the moves have begun to slow down. After all of the transactions made, I thought it would be interesting to look at [...]