Now that we can focus on real-time hockey events, it is time to write about things that are about to happen. Not involved are Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose. Colorado, St. Louis, Dallas and Vegas are through automatically to the actual playoffs but will play a round-robin to decide home ice advantage. First round [...]
It’s always easy to believe a player at home should be more productive versus when playing on the road. After all, the home player can often excel thanks to last line change leading to optimal matchups. However, that’s not always the case. This year, for example, 24 players had at least eight more road points [...]
The Interactive Playoff Draft List is now up and ready for download. If you bought the Ultimate Fantasy Pack last year, this is included in that package (i.e. not the more popular Keeper League Pack, so make sure you have the Ultimate Pack before trying to download it). This year’s Ultimate Pack, however, does not [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! In this episode Elan is joined by Samantha Pell to talk all [...]
Every Sunday, we’ll share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week’s 'Daily Ramblings'. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
It’s always news if Sidney Crosby leaves practice early. That’s what happened on Saturday, when the Penguins captain left in the second period of the team’s scrimmage for undisclosed reasons. For what it’s worth, Conor Sheary (remember he got traded back to the Penguins?) thought it was just a maintenance issue, but coach Mike Sullivan [...]
Welcome back, folks, and happy Saturday. It’s been a long road, but we finally have hockey back. Somewhat. I hope you have all been glued to your TVs and/or social media accounts and getting in your hockey fix, just in case. Whether it’s rush drills, breakouts, scrimmages, or even Zoom interviews, it’s been a breath [...]
The Vezina Trophy finalists were announced on Friday: Connor Hellebuyck, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tuukka Rask. Here is the basic stats comparison of the three goalies using the Compare Goalies feature from Frozen Tools. NameScoreGPWLOTLSOGASASVGAASV%CONNOR HELLEBUYCK458312156140179616562.570.922TUUKKA RASK4412686585118911042.120.929ANDREI VASILEVSKIY252351433133160514722.560.917 And a partial extended stats comparison. I removed the last several columns on special teams save percentage, distance save [...]
As I explore the Dobber Reports, I continue to find really interesting reports and applications. There is a ton of data to sift through and many ways to look at it. We have had a bit of a mini-series on shots over the last year and I want to continue that today. This time I [...]
The Lady Byng Trophy finalists were announced on Thursday: Auston Matthews, Ryan O’Reilly, and Nathan MacKinnon. To fantasy owners, being nominated for this award should mean “move these guys down a notch in your rankings if your league counts penalty minutes.” If you believe the league will use a points-to-penalty minutes ratio to pick a [...]
