Dobber Prospects Report

On episode 15 the guys look at a number of recent college prospects both drafted and undrafted who have signed pro deals and how they factor into your fantasy hockey plans. Players discussed include:

Clayton Keller – Arizona Coyotes

Brock Boeser – Vancouver Canucks

Colin White – Ottawa Senators

Luke Kunin – Minnesota Wild

John Hayden – Chicago Blackhawks

Tage Thompson – St. Louis Blues

Jake Walman – St. Louis Blues

Zack Aston-Reese – Pittsburgh Penguins

Joe Gambardella – Edmonton Oilers

Charlie McAvoy – Boston Bruins

Others briefly mentioned, Dennis Cholowski (DET), Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson (BOS), Marcus Hogberg (OTT), Tucker Poolman (WPG), Gavin Bayreuther (DAL), and Mike Vecchione (PHI)

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 In the second half the guys are joined by Justin Goldman, a former DobberHockey writer now Goalie Coach for the USA NTDP. Justin has trained and coached goalies such as Jake Oettinger, Dayton Rasmussen and Ryan Edquist recently and lends some insight to their journey and upside. We also talk to Justin about scouting goalies and get some great tips and insight for fantasy hockey keeper leagues.

 

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On episode 14 TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button joins the show to talk about the March edition of Craig’s List where he ranks the top 105 prospects for the upcoming 2017 NHL Draft and where some specific players are ranked which caught our eye.

Then we move onto some already drafted players and talk to Button about his February article where he ranks the top 50 prospects not skating in the NHL and some particular players of interest on that list. Button also ranks the top five prospects outside of the NHL for each Canadian team as well.

Finally we get to ask Craig about some scouting tips and get advice from an expert on how to be better scouts for our fantasy hockey teams.

It is a great interview and full of information so have a listen, and enjoy.

 

 

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In segment one, Peter and Paul give us three prospects each who have had a rising stock over the past year; players include: A.J. Greer (COL), Blake Speers (NJ), Cristoval Nieves (NYR), Paul Ladue (LA), Marcus Hogberg (OTT), Daniel O’Regan (SJ)

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The Hockey News 2017 edition of Future Watch is out now. It is a great resource for finding prospects in your fantasy leagues. However it is not designed with fantasy hockey in mind so we review it and help you interpret the rankings for your fantasy hockey scouting purposes with tips, tricks and strategies.

Players ranked higher than in fantasy:

Kasperi Kapanen (TOR), Jacob Larsson (ANA), Max Jones (ANA) and Rasmus Asplund (BUF)

Players ranked lower than in fantasy:

Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson (BOS), Ilya Sorokin (NYI), Thatcher Demko (VAN), Jake Guentzel (PIT), Oliver Bjorkstrand (CBJ) and Adrian Kempe (LA)

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DobberProspects Associate Editor, Carolina Hurricanes scout and author of the monthly NCAA editorial Kevin LeBlanc joins the show to lend some more detailed insight and analysis on some of the top NCAA free agents, drafted prospects who could turn pro and more.

Top 2017 College FA’s:

Zach Aston-Reese – North Eastern

Mike Vecchione/ Spencer Foo – Union

Tyler Kelleher – New Hampshire

Other notable free agents:

Daniel Brickley, Gavin Bayreuther, Joe Gambardella, Matthew Gaudreau, Alex Iafallo

Drafted players who may sign and go pro:

Clayton Keller (ARI)

Charlie McAvoy (BOS)

Brock Boeser (VAN)

Adam Fox (CGY)

"Jimmy Vesey Rule" candidates:

Will Butcher (COL)

Alex Kerfoot (NJ)

John Hayden (CHI)

 

 

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Monthly Mailbag with Cam Robinson: @crazyjoedavola3

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In segment one, Paul talks to Peter about scouting notes from his viewing of live games across three leagues and two provinces including the OHL, QMJHL and AHL. A few players discussed from the OHL are: Alex DeBrincat, Darren Raddysh, Robert Thomas, Alex Formenton and Victor Mete. QMJHL players discussed are: Vitali Abramov, Tyler Boland and Zack MacEwen. The AHL scouting notes include: Kasperi Kapanen, Brendan Leipsic, Andreas Johnson, Travis Dermott, Andrew Nielsen, Kerby Rychel, Matt Peca and Dominik Masin.

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In the second segment the guys do a lightning round of the top ten college hockey free agents you to watch for in your fantasy leagues:

Zach Aston-Reese

Tyler Kelleher

Mike Vecchione

Spencer Foo

Matt Gaudreau

Alex Iafallo

Daniel Brickley

Gavin Bayreuther

Peyton Jones

Nathan Krusko

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DobberHockey Managing Editor, Steve Laidlaw joins the show to share his analysis on prospects already traded in Jonathan Dahlen, Eric Cernak and Thomas Jurco. Steve also talks fantasy hockey trade deadline and how to make trades in a variety of league formats with keepers, salary caps and tanking strategies.

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In our eleventh episode Paul and Peter talk all things CHL Top Prospects Game, talking about a dozen prospects from Team Cherry and Team Orr.

In the first segment Paul and Peter discuss the players they thought stood out for Team Cherry. Discussed prospects include Nolan Patrick, Owen Tippett, Gabriel Vilardi, Isaac Ratcliffe, Henri Jokiharju, Cal Foote and Nick Suzuki.

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The guys cover Team Orr in the second segment, players mentioned include Nico Hischier, Michael Rasmussen, Cody Glass, Sasha Chmelevski, Jacob Paquette, Eemile Rasaneen, Michael DiPietro, and Matthew Strome.

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Sam Cosentino, Sportsnet Analyst and Color Commentator for Sportsnet Junior joins in the guest segment to share his thoughts on some players including, Patrick and Hischier, Henri Jokiharju, Nikita Popugaev, Kailer Yamamoto, Sasha Chmelevski, and the line of Isaac Ratcliffe - MacKenzie Entwistle - Ivan Lodnia.

Get caught up with some great content from Sam on his SportsNet column page found here.

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In our tenth episode Paul and Peter begin with a debate about “tanking” in fantasy hockey.

Is it a good strategy, is it morally correct or appropriate, how to do it correctly and when.

If you are going to tear down your fantasy team and rebuild through the draft, be sure to time it correctly with a year that has impact superstars worth tanking for like Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews in the previous two drafts.

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In the second segment they cover that by looking ahead and reviewing the 2017 Fantasy Ranking the NHL Draft article. Unlike any other draft ranking the article is a consensus ranking for the 2017 entry draft based on fantasy value.

The article received contributions from both external independent scouts and DobberProspects scouts as well. Contributing authors include:

Steve Kournianos (@TheDraftAnalyst), Ryan Wagman (@RAWagman), Scott Wheeler (@scottcwheeler), Mark Seidel (@MarkSeidel), Brock Otten (@BrockOtten), Anthony Mauro (@draftbuzzhockey), Cam Robinson (@CrazyJoeDavola3), Zachary DeVine (@zakkthebear), Brad Phillips (@BradHPhillips), Kevin LeBlanc (@kleblanchockey), Joel Henderson (@dathockeydoe) and our very own Peter Harling (@pharling)

Players identified in this episode as better fantasy value or rising value prospects in the draft include Nico Hischier, Martin Necas, Kailer Yamamoto, and Nick Suzuki.

Players that have lower fantasy value or have declining projection include Maxime Comtois, Cal Foote, and Klim Kostin.

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The interview segment has a contributing author to the Fantasy Ranking the Draft article as Steve Kournianos from The Draft Analyst joins the show. The guys ask Steve why he ranked the following players higher than the consensus, Henri Jokiharju, Ian Mitchell, and Casey Mittelstadt. In addition they ask Steve to discuss prospects he did not rank inside his top 31 that did make the consensus ranking in Nick Suzuki, Cody Glass, Robin Salo and Matthew Strome.

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The World Junior tournament is over and there were several players who had great performances, and some who were disappointing. The guys talk about who they liked and what prospects raised their fantasy value

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Peter was able to see preliminary games live in Cornwall, Oshawa and two in Kingston, here are the players he talks about in the first segment.

USA - Tyler Parsons (CGY), Casey Fitzgerald (BUF), Tage Thompson (STL), Eric Foley (WPG), Troy Terry (ANA)

RUSSIA - Denis Guryanov (DAL), Yegor Rykov (NJD), Alexander Polunin (Undrafted)

SWEDEN - Jonathan Dahlen (OTT), Rasmus Dahlin ('18 Draft)

CZECH REPUBLIC - Martin Necas ('17 Draft), David Kase (PHI)

CANADA - Thomas Chabot (OTT), Philippe Myers (PHI), Carter Hart (PHI)

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Paul was working overtime with the PVR and while on Daddy duty was able to watch almost all the televised games. Here are the players he talks about

RUSSIA - Ilya Samsonov (WSH), Kirill Kaprizov (MIN)

USA - Jordan Greenway (MIN)

SWEDEN - Joel Eriksson EK (MIN), Rasmus Asplund (BUF)

SWITZERLAND - Nico Hischier ('17 Draft), Jonas Siegenthaler (WSH), Joren van Pottelberghe (DET)

CANADA - Julien Gauthier (CAR), Pierre-Luc Dubois (CBJ), Anthony Cirelli (TBL)

 

Players who the guys were disappointed with:

FINLAND - Eeli Tolvanen ('17 Draft), Olli Juolevi (VAN)

RUSSIA - Mikhail Sergachev (MTL), German Rubtsov (PHI) [Due to injury]

SWEDEN - Filip Ahl (OTT)

SLOVAKIA - Radovan Bondra (CHI)

CANADA - Jake Bean (CAR)

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Scott Wheeler joins the show as this week’s guest. Scott was in attendance at all the games in Toronto and talks about a player who didn’t make the Russian Team in Artur Tyanulin (who he sees regularly in Ottawa). Martin Necas who is a draft eligible prospect and all the Toronto Maple Leafs prospects from the WJ in Jeremy Bracco and Joseph Woll from USA, Carl Grundstrom from Sweden and Martin Dzerkals

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With the World Junior preliminary rosters announced and the tournament starting this month, the guys discuss key players from each nation that can have an impact in both the tournament, and for your fantasy roster in the future.

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We look at the North American teams and give you a few 'Players to Watch' on both Team Canada and Team USA. We give you a sleeper from each of the teams that could improve their prospect stock by the end of the tournament.

CANADA - Dylan Strome (ARI), Tyson Jost (COL), Thomas Chabot (OTT) and Taylor Raddysh (TB)

USA - Clayton Keller (ARI), Alex DeBrincat (CHI), Jeremy Bracco (TOR) and Troy Terry (ANA)

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Peter and Paul cross the pond to breakdown 'Players to Watch' on the top European teams;

RUSSIA - Kirill Kaprizov (MIN), Nikita Korostelev (TOR), Artun Tyanulin (Undrafted)

FINLAND - Eeli Tolvanen (2017 NHL Draft), Petrus Palmu (Undrafted)

SWEDEN - Alex Nylander (BUF), Carl Grundstrom (TOR)

CZECH REPUBLIC - Adam Musil (STL)

SWITZERLAND - Nico Hischier (2017 NHL Draft)

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We catch up with Aynsley Scott from Hockey Prospect Radio and a contributor to the DobberProspects guide to discuss players to keep an eye on at the World Juniors, discussing Carter Hart (PHI), Sam Steel (ANA), Colin White (OTT), Charlie McAvoy (BOS), Juuso Valimaki (2017 Draft), Henrik Borgstrom (FLA), Rasmus Dahlin (2018 NHL Draft), German Rubtsov (PHI) Klim Kostin (2017 NHL Draft), and Daniel Vladar (BOS) and a couple other prospects.

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The guys review some AHL prospects, rapid fire some more AHL prospects and then ask guest Zach DeVine about some more AHL prospects that are making some noise.

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This episode starts with some notes from a live viewing when Peter saw the Lehigh Valley Phantoms come into Toronto to play the Marlies. Peter talks about prospects looking to make the jump to the Leafs in the AHL leading scorer Brendan Leipsic, Kasperi Kapanen (Sami Kapanen's son), the winger formerly known as Andreas Johnson (now Johnsson), and big defenceman Andrew Nielsen.

And on Fantrax veterans Brooks Laich (1.7%), Colin Greening (1.9%) and Milan Michalek (5.1%) still have fantasy ownership; if you are holding these players drop them immediately!

In the second part of the first segment, Paul talks about several players making the jump from the AHL into the NHL and how you should react accordingly with your fantasy roster as Peter asks him about Jake Guentzel (PIT), Miko Rantanen (COL), Jakub Vrana (WAS), John Quenneville (NJ), and Kevin Fiala (NAS).

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In the second segment the guys do a rapid fire look at some names at the top of the AHL scoring leaders in each position. Taylor Beck (EDM) and Brendan Perlini (ARI) are the forwards discussed. Juuse Saros (NAS), Charlie Lindgren (MTL), and Casey DeSmith (PIT) make the goalie discussion. Jordan Subban (VAN), Alex Carrier (NAS), and Kyle Wood (ARI) of the Roadrunners are the focus on defence talk.

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In the third segment the guys are joined by fellow DobberProspects scout Zack DeVine who lives in San Jose and scouts the AHL covering the San Jose Sharks for DobberProspects. Zack also provides the monthly AHL editorial and this months post can be found on Monday, December fifth on our Feature Page.

Zach attends all the San Jose Baraccuda games and shares his scouting notes on Sharks prospects Timo Meier, Nikolay Goldobin, Daniel O’Regan, and Tim Heed with Paul. Peter asks about other AHL prospects in Brandon Montour (ANA), Mark Jankowski (CAL), Morgan Klimchuk (CAL) and Sergei Tolchinsky (CAR).

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Peter Harling: @pharling

Our guest Zach DeVine: @zakkthebear

Email any questions to: [email protected]

Find our show notes at DobberProspects.com.

The guys review some AHL prospects, rapid fire some more AHL prospects and then ask guest Zach DeVine about some more AHL prospects that are making some noise.

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This episode starts with some notes from a live viewing when Peter saw the Lehigh Valley Phantoms come into Toronto to play the Marlies. Peter talks about prospects looking to make the jump to the Leafs in the AHL leading scorer Brendan Leipsic, Kasperi Kapanen (Sami Kapanen's son), the winger formerly known as Andreas Johnson (now Johnsson), and big defenceman Andrew Nielsen.

And on Fantrax veterans Brooks Laich (1.7%), Colin Greening (1.9%) and Milan Michalek (5.1%) still have fantasy ownership; if you are holding these players drop them immediately!

In the second part of the first segment, Paul talks about several players making the jump from the AHL into the NHL and how you should react accordingly with your fantasy roster as Peter asks him about Jake Guentzel (PIT), Miko Rantanen (COL), Jakub Vrana (WAS), John Quenneville (NJ), and Kevin Fiala (NAS).

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In the second segment the guys do a rapid fire look at some names at the top of the AHL scoring leaders in each position. Taylor Beck (EDM) and Brendan Perlini (ARI) are the forwards discussed. Juuse Saros (NAS), Charlie Lindgren (MTL), and Casey DeSmith (PIT) make the goalie discussion. Jordan Subban (VAN), Alex Carrier (NAS), and Kyle Wood (ARI) of the Roadrunners are the focus on defence talk.

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In the third segment the guys are joined by fellow DobberProspects scout Zack DeVine who lives in San Jose and scouts the AHL covering the San Jose Sharks for DobberProspects. Zack also provides the monthly AHL editorial and this months post can be found on Monday, December fifth on our Feature Page.

Zach attends all the San Jose Baraccuda games and shares his scouting notes on Sharks prospects Timo Meier, Nikolay Goldobin, Daniel O’Regan, and Tim Heed with Paul. Peter asks about other AHL prospects in Brandon Montour (ANA), Mark Jankowski (CAL), Morgan Klimchuk (CAL) and Sergei Tolchinsky (CAR).

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Be sure to follow us on Twitter: @DPR_show

Paul Zwambag: @zwambag

Peter Harling: @pharling

Our guest Zach DeVine: @zakkthebear

Email any questions to: [email protected]

Find our show notes at DobberProspects.com.