With the playoffs well underway, we will shift gears for a few weeks and take a look at the most valuable players in the west at their position this year. Using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool, we are able to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. [...]
There’s a theory that goes around hockey circles that a player will see a significant increase in production in their fourth NHL season. There’s some credence to that. Years ago, someone here at Dobber wrote that almost a quarter of forwards entering their fourth season saw their production increase by about 25 per cent. [...]
Ramblings: My take on the 2018 Top 5 Draft picks, Sunday’s action and more (Apr 30) *** I had planned to provide in-depth commentary on what Rasmus Dahlin will mean to his new team the Buffalo Sabres, but after reading Ian’s take yesterday (here) there is really nothing more to add. I think he nailed [...]
Every Sunday until the start of the 2018-19 regular season, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings". […]
April is signing season for NHL teams as prospects wrap up their seasons and GM’s are eager to get some shiny new toys in the system. And while more high profile players like Casey Mittelstadt and Henrik Borgstrom get most of the pub, here are a few late round pick signings that deserve your [...]
Bruins Draw First Blood, Sabres Win Draft Lottery, Vegas No Longer Undefeated […]
With just one game on tap, we’ll start things off with a little draft lottery precursor. Sportsnet announced they would prolong the pain/excitement on Saturday by revealing teams 4-15 before the San Jose – Vegas tilt. They will then leave the final three spots to be unveiled after the second intermission of that [...]
Greatest trade in some time; That’s what I’ll have to say about my acquisition of Dustin Byfuglien in late January whilst his value was at its lowest. At the tail end of his buy low window, I shipped off Bo Horvat (it’s a face-off league) and Radko Gudas for the Manitoba policeman. Boy did it [...]
The thing a lot of people expected to happen, happened. Maybe it didn’t happen when they expected it to happen, but it happened. And was it ever a happening. Washington carried a 1-0 lead into the third period and Alex Ovechkin scored 28 seconds into the frame to push his team to 2-0. Everything was [...]
