I'll be running a live blog during my first draft this afternoon. I'll keep it going at the bottom of the ramblings. A significant shift in team building philosophy has occured over the past few years in the NHL. Many teams have gone from two scoring lines, one checking line, and one energy line [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Hurricanes have signed winger Patrick O’Sullivan to a one-year, two-way contract. He was a member of the organization for about five minutes during the 2008 trade deadline. Carolina moved Justin Williams to Los Angeles for him, but then he was quickly flipped to the Oilers for Erik Cole.
Dobber: Fantasy Guide updated with all of the blue highlights removed from the previous updates. Includes the O'Sullivan signing is in the Guide (try and find that anywhere else!), the Cormier news (broken foot) and Enver Lisin is trying out for...Atlanta. It's all there! Goldie: I posted a Top-10 Training Camp Battles piece on [...]
The key to making money on the stock market is buying a stock right before it takes off. Dividends are nice, but nothing beats the return of buying low and selling high. The same goes for fantasy hockey; it’s nice to have good players on your team, but when you’ve acquired them with shrewd, late picks, you’re bound to move to the top of the heap in your pool.
Justin Bourne with a must-read article today on Puck Daddy - steroids in hockey. DobberHockey's 2010-11 Pool Guide - updated through September 15th and available here. Dobber - Breaking: The Penguins have announced that Jordan Staal underwent a procedure in his foot to cure an infection. Recovery is five to six weeks, meaning [...]
The left-wing lock was a defensive strategy popularized by Scotty Bowman and the Detroit Red Wings in the 1990s. In essence, it was very simple. If the opposing team gained possession of the puck, the left-winger would drop back with the defensemen. It helped reshape the Red Wings into a team that could frustrate opponents defensively as well as bury them on the scoreboard.
Today, I wonder if we poolies face another form of left wing frustration - an apparent scarcity of quality left wingers to draft. Call it the leftwing lockout if you will. But whatever you call it, within a matter of weeks we will all have to draft our teams for the coming campaign, so let’s examine the potential problem.
While revamping the downloads section, the new updated guide was inadvertantly removed and the one from Sept 12 was made available. I have switched this back now so it is the Sept 15 Fantasy Guide you can update now. Ditto for the Spreadsheet. I'm normally not in agreement with Damien Cox, so this [...]
Over the course of the last few weekends, I participated in a few, (about 35), Yahoo! mock drafts to gain a better grasp of what’s been going on in the real fantasy hockey world and thought that I’d pass my findings onto you Dobberities. I participated in random drafts ranging from eight to 14 teams from H2H to Roto leagues with standard settings. Last week I covered players that seem to be overvalued and overreached at the draft table, this week we’ll take a look at the opposite.
The first three parts the Business of Fantasy Hockey series focused on engaging in a passive analysis of fantasy hockey leagues, the concept of market value, and how to properly value player intrinsically. Part IV, we're going to explain how you can actively manipulate the market price of players for trading and drafting (or any other way you can improve your club).
Larry Brooks is reporting that Anaheim is about to sign Paul Mara. That would about kill Cam Fowler's chances. Signing Mara and Andy Sutton, and Fowler went from lock to unlikely. Here's a head-scratcher. Phoenix has signed Eric Belanger for one year. They needed a second/third line center like the Leafs need a [...]
