Get your hands on the Draft Prospects Hockey comprehensive 150 plus page NHL Entry Draft Guide chalk full of information on the 2020 NHL Draft crop as well as profiles and notes on lots of
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – 2021 NHL DRAFT PRELIMINARY TOP 32
Welcome to the 2021 NHL Draft season folks! Well kind of. Many leagues have postponed their start by a few months and most of the big international scouting events that kick off the scouting year
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – COVID19 IMPACT ON THE COMING SEASON
With COVID-19 delaying the start of junior leagues, what is the next step for prospects? By Jonah Fleisher The COVID-19 pandemic abruptly put an end to both pro and amateur hockey leagues in mid-March. Still
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – THE IMPORTANCE OF DRAFTING FIRST OVERALL
Making or Breaking the Case for tonight’s Phase II Draft LotteryBy Mitch McBeaudry Fans of the National Hockey League were in an uproar this past Friday night when both the Pittsburgh Penguins and Edmonton Oilers
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – BY THE NUMBERS
THE ANALYTIC DARLINGS OF THE 2020 NHL DRAFTBy Dan Stewart In my humble opinion, advanced stats or analytics, whatever you want to call them, are not and can never become a substitute for actually getting
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – THE DEFENSEMEN FACTORY THAT IS SWEDEN
By DraftPro staff. Inevitably Toronto Maple Leaf great Borje Salming and Detroit Red Wings legend Nicklas Lidstrom come to mind when the topic of best Swedish defenders to play in the NHL comes up. And
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – OUR POST PHASE 1 LOTTERY TOP TEN
Well you asked for chaos, and chaos you got from the NHL brain trust in charge of putting the Draft Lottery that we witnessed on Friday June 26 together. Yes, it brought viewership to the
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – 2020 NHL DRAFT FINAL RANKINGS
Here we are, at the end of a long season. But one unfortunately cut short by unprecedented circumstances with the COVID19 pandemic. Our staff of evaluators haven’t been sitting on their duffs after the rinks
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – 2020 3-ROUND MOCK DRAFT
With video viewing of past games about all we can do at this point and no tournaments or fresh data to provide insight on for visitors of our website we at Draft Prospects Hockey thought
Continue ReadingDRAFTPRO – U18 5-NATIONS REVIEW – FEB 2019
The Under-18 Five Nations tournament in Chomutov, Czech Republic was a significant scouting stop along the road to the 2020 NHL Draft as it is the second last “big” evaluating event of the season before
Continue Reading