Victor Nuno pens The Journey every Saturday for DobberHockey. He is also an editor for DobberProspects, as well as a co-host of the Fantasy Hockey Life podcast.
The Journey examines Dobber’s Top 200 Forward Prospects List, and assesses the fast risers in the October rankings. Jesper Bratt – New Jersey Devils – Up to 37th from Not Ranked Raise your hand if you had fast starts by New Jersey and Las Vegas this season. No one? Didn’t think so. [...]
With all but three NHL teams playing their first game of the season at this point, The Journey takes a closer look at some of the rookie debuts this week and how the prospects fared in their openers. Nolan Patrick – Philadelphia Flyers The second overall pick in the NHL draft from this summer started [...]
The Journey digs into prospect storylines heading into and persisting through training camps and the start of the 2017-18 season. This is the third part of this series and the first two can be found here. 1. Lias Andersson back to Sweden while Filip Chytil stays? When New York acquired a top-10 pick at the [...]
The Journey digs into possible prospect storylines heading into training camps and the start of the 2017-18 season. The most recent editions of The Journey can be found here. 1. What does a potential Riley Sheahan for Derrick Pouliot mean for both teams? This deal was teased by Elliotte Friedman in the now [...]
The Journey digs into possible prospect storylines heading into training camps and the start of the 2017-18 season. This is part one of the series that will delve into the prospects to keep an eye on as we make our way towards the start of the campaign. 1. What value do Brett Ritchie and [...]
Breakout candidates can be defined in a few different ways, but in this article we’ll look at young, Pacific Division non-rookies who have established themselves at least somewhat in the NHL and signs point to them reaching a higher-than-expected levels of play and statistical achievement in 2017-18. In fantasy, these are players one would likely [...]
In recent years, preseason prospect tournaments have been nice little warm up to NHL training camps, and the light at the end of the tunnel signaling that the hockey season is about to arrive. As always our guys over at DobberProspects are going to be churning out content over the next couple weeks to prep [...]
The Journey examines which high-level prospect defensemen will be battling it out in camp in the next few weeks with the potential to provide value in fantasy leagues. If you missed last week’s crop of what forwards to watch, click here. Mikhail Sergachev – Tampa Bay Lightning Coming over to the Lightning in [...]
The Journey examines which high-level forward prospects will be battling it out in camp in the next few weeks with the potential to provide value in fantasy leagues. Mathew Barzal – New York Islanders A big topic of conversation this offseason has been the ability of the Islanders to add another pivot to [...]
In this week’s Journey, we complete a three-part series looking back on the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Part Three outlines the 10th-1st selections, and recaps each prospect’s post draft seasons and where they are on the developmental arc. Look back at Part One (30-21) here. Look back at Part Two (20-11) here. 10th: Colorado [...]
