Jakub Dobeš News & Stories

Here's what the rest of the league can learn from the final four playoff teams.

We're down to the final four in the NHL...

Only three players on the Avalanche were drafted by Colorado, and they've traded almost every first-round pick from 2022-2030. But they're so good at identifying and leveraging talent in trades that it just doesn't matter.

The Carolina Hurricanes, Montreal Canadiens, and Colorado Avalanche are getting clutch performances from unexpected places as they push toward the Conference Finals.

The Buffalo Sabres had a decade-plus rebuild, but they got there by leveraging those assets in the trade market.

Bill Guerin's plan for rebuilding the Wild took serious guts, and now we're seeing it pay off.

With Porter Martone's early success in Philadelphia, will more teams ask their top picks to play college hockey?

The NHL's top rookies are bringing the heat early this season. See who’s rising, slipping, and stealing the spotlight in Elite Prospects’ updated Calder Trophy power rankings.

Despite the graduation of Lane Hutson, the Canadiens boast an elite prospect pool with a balance of elite skill and difficult-to-play-against depth, assembled to fill all roles a contending lineup needs, top to bottom.

The Habs made the playoffs a little ahead of schedule. How can they build on that kind of success?

The crowded Eastern Conference Wild Card scene has a bunch of teams with iffy goaltending. Will anyone pull the trigger on a goaltending trade before Four Nations?

Rinkside Roundup returns, highlighting breakout performances by Jakub Dobeš and Oscar Fisker Mølgaard, as well as the continued strong play of Michael Misa, Matthew Wood, and more.

David St-Louis takes you through the Montréal Canadiens third-ranked prospect pool going into the 2024-25 NHL season with scouting reports on its 27 best prospects.

David St-Louis breaks down the Montréal Canadiens' 12th-ranked prospect pool with scouting reports and tools grades on their 23 (23!!!) best prospects.

Ryan Lambert wraps up the fourth and final day of the NCAA Regionals, which featured wins from Quinnipiac and Michigan, who will now play in the Frozen Four.

The EP Rinkside Prospect Pool Rankings continue with a look at the Montréal Canadiens and their seventh-ranked system, complete with scouting reports, tools grades, etc. on their 15 best prospects.

People are starting to get that end-of-the-season feeling even if there's still plenty of hockey to go.

It only took about eight hours on top of yesterday’s three-or-so, but we finally, almost mercifully, reached the conclusion of the 2020 NHL Entry Draft. 217 draft picks later, the...