Welcome back, prospect enthusiasts. A few weeks back I brought you the top players emerging out of the QMJHL, which has six representing first-round North American rankings. For the next three weeks, I will be continuing that trend to bring you the top from the OHL, WHL, USA and finishing up with European skaters. In [...]
According to ESPN, various locations around North America have contacted the NHL regarding hosting neutral-site games, should the 2019-20 NHL season resume. The reported locations include Grand Forks, North Dakota; Manchester, New Hampshire; and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. These games would likely be held in empty arenas. At this stage, we would simply need to consider this [...]
Anyone who has followed Dobber Hockey for any length of time likely know about the fourth-year breakout. The fourth year is a mythical time when a high proportion of NHL players seem to reach new scoring heights. This week we are going to take a look at some of 2019-20’s third year players and try [...]
For anyone looking for more information from around the sports world, as it relates to COVID-19 and the impact on players, the business, or whatever else, TSN – a major sports network in Canada – is starting an In Depth series that focuses solely on how this is affecting various aspects of the sports world. [...]
First off, I hope everyone is staying safe and staying indoors as much as possible! Last week here, we combed over the Eastern conference teams for some possible picks in the Seattle expansion. This week, we’re doing the same thing for the West (minus Vegas). A few notes before I begin: -I am making some [...]
How players compare to one another is quite often how we process information in sports. What I mean is how a certain talent possessed by Player A compares to Player B, assuming we have a good handle on what Player B brings. Someone could say that so-and-so is nearly as good a playmaker as Nicklas [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Here though, instead of there being three bowls of porridge I'm covering three skaters and declaring one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a [...]
Over in the Canucks Twitter universe, there’s a March Madness-style bracket going on that pits a variety of who’s who from the Vancouver media, former-pros, and fan sphere. I was happy with a run to the Sweet Sixteen before bowing out to The Athletic's, Wyatt Arndt, aka The Stanchion. Now, here’s where it gets fun. [...]
One bit of news from the NHL, reported by Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, is that the NHL has at least floated the idea of finishing the 2019-20 season in North Dakota. Every game in North Dakota. There would obviously be a lot of logistics to figure out – hotels, travel, testing, quarantining away from family [...]
We will look at each graduated rookie (26 or more games in the NHL) for each of the Western Teams and see how they fared this season. Anaheim Sam Steel – It is easy to look at only six goals in 65 games as a disappointing season, but Steel was able to hold his own [...]
