Just over a month after fracturing his foot, Andrei Vasilevskiy returned to game action on Thursday night at home to the Leafs. Those that rostered Louis Domingue, as I’ve stated earlier, should hold on to him for the time being. The chance for re-injury is always present and my hope is they back off [...]
After the hockey world has focused on the Leafs for the last little while with the William Nylander signing, let’s let them have another 30 seconds before looking elsewhere. Jake Gardiner is almost assuredly going to be starting next season elsewhere, as left-shot defenceman Calle Rosen just signed a two-year extension on a one-way [...]
The Stars have broken up their lines, moving Jamie Benn to the second line with Martin Hanzal. That’s not a huge surprise. The surprising news here is they broke up their power play and moved Benn to the second unit. The team is apparently going to go with split, and equal, power play units. [...]
Antti Raanta. Matt Kartozian / USA Today Sports Images Here’s this week’s latest in the world of injuries. As always, follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza for the latest injury updates and line combinations! Ryan Miller – Sprained his MCL on Sunday against the Devils and will be re-evaluated in two weeks. Early [...]
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league. Lots of minor tweaking this month, but nothing major worth noting here. As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point are based on your team need (wait time, certainty/risk factor, upside, [...]
Brayden Point. Kim Klement / USA Today Sports Images When December rolls around it’s time for gifts galore, including from DobberHockey in the form of the popular winter Cage Match Tournaments! This year I’m sticking again with the “new normal” concept to use your votes to identify players whose current scoring pace [...]
Alex Ovechkin - USA Today Sports Images William Nylander hit the scoresheet for the first time this season. The 22-year-old led the way for the Leafs with two even-strength assists as they beat the Hurricanes 4-1 on Tuesday evening. Nylander continued to skate alongside Nazem Kadri and Patrick Marleau on the team's third [...]
Here are the Top 250 prospects to own in your points-only keeper league - December edition! Lots of minor tweaking this month, but nothing major worth noting here. As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point are based on your team need (wait time, certainty/risk [...]
This week on the Eastern Edge I’m going to follow Chris Kane’s format and look at some of the vizzes from Sean Tierney. As most of you have probably seen, Tierney is leading the charge in awesome NHL visuals. I have used my time at Dobber Hockey trying to teach myself R and have [...]
In this week’s instalment, we focus on one particularly hot line. Using Dobber’s Line Production Tool, we compared even-strength point production around the league over the past 10 games. I compiled a list of the highest scoring line for each team at even strength. Here’s the list… # Team Line Points 1 Colorado [...]
