We will look at each graduated rookie (26 or more games in the NHL) for each of the Western Teams and see how they fared this season. Anaheim Sam Steel – It is easy to look at only six goals in 65 games as a disappointing season, but Steel was able to hold his own [...]
One of the keys to winning your fantasy championship is being able to find those guys who will have great seasons that seeming come out of nowhere. After all, these are players that you could have drafted late or picked up off the waiver wire at some point, and many of them performed better than [...]
The only active defensemen to ever reach 80 points in a season are Erik Karlsson and Brent Burns. Kris Letang could have made it, but he was too prone to injury and now the window has passed him by. But I put together a list of players who ‘could’ get there, and honestly a few [...]
With hockey on pause for the foreseeable future it's time to look ahead and there's nobody better to do that with than prospect expert Cam Robinson. Not only is Cam an Associate Editor of DobberHockey, the Managing Editor of DobberProspects, and the Director of Film Scouting at Elite Prospects, but he's also a great friend of the [...]
Every Sunday, we’ll share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week’s 'Daily Ramblings'. Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
US President Donald Trump met with the commissioners of the various sports leagues on Saturday, which of course included NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. Trump said he hopes that fans will be back in stadiums by August and September, and he believes that the NFL could start on time in September. All I can say is [...]
Welcome back for this week's edition of The Journey. It was a quiet week in the hockey world, aside from the OHL Bantam Draft which took place on Friday afternoon. With the first selection, the North Bay Battalion took 16-year-old Ty Nelson, who is a swift-skating blueliner playing out of the GTHL with the Toronto [...]
Hope you’re doing well and staying safe. Earlier this week when the City of Toronto placed a ban on public events until June 30, that ban did not include sporting events. However, on Friday the mayor of Calgary placed his own ban on public events, which happens to include sporting events. The feeling I’ve been [...]
Here are the Top 100 115 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - April edition! I increased the list to 115 this month. As always, players within +/-5.0 rating points of each others should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs or personal bias. Full Top [...]
Hello again, and hope you’re managing well during this uneasy time. With this pause likely to be measured in months and not weeks, there are many ideas floating around as for how the 2019-20 NHL season might resume. Here’s one interesting one, which is derived from an NBA idea. https://twitter.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1245714964012244992 I don’t like to [...]
