DraftScout Notebook
A personal scouting notebook for serious hockey fans that watches World Juniors and CHL box scores, writes AI scouting reports on draft-eligible players, and lets you build your own big board with custom rankings.
Diehard hockey fans tracking the 2027 NHL Draft and following prospects through the World Junior pipeline
- Auto-generated scouting reports after each showcase game covering skating, hockey IQ, compete level, and projection
- Custom big board where you rank prospects and compare against consensus mock drafts and Bob McKenzie lists
- Watchlist alerts when your ranked prospects score, get injured, or make or miss a roster cut
- Comparables engine that matches prospect style to current NHLers (e.g., 'Zach Benson-type grinder')
NHL draft content has exploded as streaming access to CHL and junior leagues improves, but serious fans still cobble together scouting notes from Twitter threads, paywalled EliteProspects pages, and random blog posts — and the 2027 draft class is generating buzz a year out.
2027 NHL Draft content is actively being produced now by The Athletic/NYT (Scott Wheeler), Daily Faceoff, Elite Prospects, NHL Insight, and Complete Draft Rankings, indicating sustained fan demand a year before the draft.2027 NHL Draft Rankings — Complete Draft Rankings ↗2027 NHL Draft ranking: Landon DuPont tops Scott Wheeler's first top 25 ↗
Market is crowded: Sound of Hockey Big Board covers 13,000+ prospects across community/industry rankings, Draft Prospects Hockey offers free multi-creator big boards, and AI scouting already exists via hockey.ai ($14.99/mo), ProScout AI (2,000+ hockey families), and PuckScout Pro — though most target youth players rather than NHL draft prospects specifically.Draft Prospects Hockey - One Platform. Every Draft Perspective. ↗Pricing · hockey.ai ↗Hockey Scouting Reports — AI Player Analysis & NHL Comparables ↗
Proven willingness to pay in adjacent niches: hockey.ai charges $14.99/month, Elite Prospects has premium subscriptions for scouting data, and The Athletic paywalls NHL draft content — diehard draft fans clearly pay for premium scouting intel.Pricing · hockey.ai ↗Join the Hockey Community Using 30+ Premium Tools - Elite Prospects ↗
Draft tracking is perishable but recurring annually — every year produces a new draft class with strong engagement 12+ months out, providing natural retention cycles; however each user's intense engagement window is roughly 18 months per draft cycle.
Building AI scouting reports requires aggregating CHL/WHL/OHL/QMJHL box score feeds (paid via leagues or scraped), World Juniors data, and large language model summarization — moderate complexity, with EP data licensing as a non-trivial cost/obstacle.The 2026 NHL Draft Big Board - Compiled public prospect rankings ↗