Back when I was writing the Wild West Column, every so often I would take a break from scorers and focus on some adds managers could make to boost their category coverage. This week I would like to dive back into the world of hits and blocks and take a look at multi-category players. We [...]
The Rangers avoided arbitration with Ryan Strome, signing him to a two-year contract with a cap hit of $4.5 million. After failing to meet expectations in Long Island and Edmonton, Strome has found a home in Manhattan, scoring a career-high 59 points while slotting in as Artemi Panarin’s most frequent center and playing over 19 [...]
Patrik Laine (RW) – Winnipeg Jets Current Cap Hit: $6,750,000 Projected New Cap Hit: $7,917,971 It does not seem like Laine and the Jets are going to be a long-term marriage. Perhaps that means a trade, or perhaps the Jets will sit on Laine and let him sign his own offersheet out of town. Ideally [...]
Ryan Pulock was re-signed by the Islanders to a two-year deal, carrying an average annual value of $5M. As mentioned in that linked tweet by Arthur Staple, this opens a second buyout window for the Islanders. Whether they use it or not is another matter, but they have about $4M in cap space with which [...]
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in our points-only keeper leagues - November edition! *NOW AVAILABLE* Pick up the 15th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide for immediate download here! As always, players between +/-5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs. [...]
The Red Wings locked down a cornerstone on Tuesday, inking Anthony Mantha to a four-year deal worth 5.7M per. https://twitter.com/DetroitRedWings/status/1323663778886668290?s=20 This is a tremendous deal for Detroit in the now. First, it does not contain an NTC or NMC. It also comes nearly a million per year below the expected four-year cap hit as projected [...]
The 2020-21 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is finally available for your reading pleasure! Pick up your copy today and reconnect with the sport that you’ve been missing for weeks. Lose yourself in player projections, sleeper picks and the best fantasy analysis since last year’s fantasy guide. Not only will the guide help you prepare for [...]
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in our points-only keeper leagues - November edition! This is the 18th anniversary of this feature! Eighteen years of monthly rankings, though the first three-plus seasons these were posted at The Hockey News. Interestingly enough, the reason DobberHockey exists is because of these rankings. During that '05 [...]
The 2020-21 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is now available in the Dobber Shop! Grab your copy now to start perusing projections, depth charts, player profiles, content for cap leagues, and a whole lot more. It will be updated through to the start of the regular season, whenever that will be, so don’t worry about getting [...]
For most hockey fantasy pools, the man advantage is an important key to success as most top players get 20-30 points on the power play. We will look at all the teams in the Western Conference and see how they fared last season and what players should be expected to be on the top units [...]
