If you’re in mailbag withdrawal due to the delay from Bubble Keeper Week, worry no more, as it makes its return today! For first time readers, this is where I get the privilege of answering your fantasy hockey questions, which you can send me via instructions at the end of the column. As always, [...]
Did anybody ever have a strong understanding of what the Minnesota Wild have been doing lately? I sure didn’t, and it appears ownership felt the same way. Tuesday marked the end of Paul Fenton’s 14-month tenure as the club’s General Manager. The short duration was not one without incident. It all began when [...]
Dobber's Band-Aid Boys – 2019 edition! Which players are at risk to hurt your fantasy team by missing games? You've heard me talk about 'em. You've often wondered if I just pull them out of a hat (or perhaps a certain body oriface). Nope. I get 'em off this list. A DobberHockey staple [...]
We had two big bits of news on Monday. First, the Lightning extended goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy for eight years with an average annual value of $9.5M. The deal kicks in for his age-26 season, after his current contract expires following the 2019-20 campaign. In that sense, this deal kind of stands alone. Sergei Bobrovsky [...]
Fantasy Impact: The New Jersey Devils have acquired winger Nikita Gusev from the Vegas Golden Knights for a second- and a third-round draft pick. The Devils promptly signed the former KHL superstar to a two-year, $9 million contract. The Devils get: a player who last year was widely considered to be one of the [...]
Welcome to week eight of our summer series. Like last season, this series is intended to take a look at the teams in the Western Conference one by one. We will do a short recap of what took place, but the deep dive here will be into the players that helped make it so, [...]
Last week, all of the writers here at DobberHockey have been talking about our top bubble players. We were given a list of about 144 players that were definite keepers (in other words, in a 12-team league, about 12 keepers each). There were plenty of great suggestions about bubble players (those that weren’t on the [...]
Ramblings: Talbot vs. Rittich, trade strategy, and the breakout odds for Vrana, Beauvillier, Dvorak, Heinen and Bjorkstrand (July 29) *** I hope you enjoyed a week of DobberHockey’s look at your keeper league players on the bubble. If you haven’t read all of last week’s articles from the various writers and you have [...]
Every Sunday, we'll share 21 Fantasy Rambles – formerly 20 Fantasy Thoughts – from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. […]
