It’s that time of the month again – to open the virtual mailbag and answer your all-important fantasy hockey questions while at the same time dispensing advice that’s useful to all. Want your question answered here? Check out the end of the column, where I explain the ways to get it to me. The [...]
I'll take just a moment to discuss what is happening right now in the hockey world. It is unheard of. It began with Don Cherry and his xenophobic and divisive remarks. It bled into Mike Babcock and the abuse of power and the dynamics that come from toxic coach-player relationships. It's now focused squarely [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we take a look at one big storyline from each team in the Eastern Conference. We’ll be going in alphabetical order, which means you’ll get the teams from Boston to New Jersey this week, and New York to Washington next week. Boston Bruins Pasta’s Knack for Scoring [...]
Good day to all in fantasy hockey land. This week I will be looking at the top lines over the last three games. I have compiled a list of the top 10 lines at even strength using Dobber's line production tool. I will also look at line replacements for a couple of key injuries [...]
Mika Zibanejad skated with the team before practice but did not suit up for Monday night’s tilt at home against Minnesota. It is expected that he’ll return Wednesday, though, so fantasy owners can start making their arrangements to get him off the IR. * Mikko Rantanen was skating with the team in practice on [...]
Goalies are fickle at the best of times. They rarely perform as expected either in the short or long term. Because of this, it is usually a good plan to check in on who is doing what every so often. To that end, we are going to take a bit of a dive [...]
On this week's episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast, Elan and is joined by DobberHockey's Michael Clifford, aka @SlimCliffy to break down a big week of changes around the league. Players discussed on this episode include Ilya Mikheyev, Andreas Johnsson, Kasperi Kapanen, Tyson Barrie, Cory Schneider, Louis Domingue, Mackenzie Blackwood, Kyle Palmieri, Nikita Gusev, [...]
One of the hardest things to do in fantasy hockey is keeping an eye on what players are running cold, especially for those of you who have teams in multiple leagues. After all, you could be trying to keep track of up to 200 players over all of your rosters, plus those you’re thinking [...]
Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league - November 25 version. Standard pre-rankings note: This isn’t meant to be a be-all and end-all rating system for you to use without thinking and just trade your players for anyone above them on the list that you can find, but [...]
Ramblings: Digging deep on Gusev, Bowey’s blunder, Iron Yan, and fading Phil (Nov 25) *** I was asked on Twitter if it’s time to drop Nikita Gusev, after I had advised him two weeks ago that he should “give it two weeks”. I liked the question and I wanted to delve deeper and I [...]
