Regular season hockey pools aren’t usually impacted by poor postseason performances, but smart fantasy general managers can use the playoffs to bolster their roster for next season. As mentioned last week, selling high after a good postseason run can help your fantasy squad. However, a poor postseason shouldn’t impact the fantasy value too much. We’re [...]
A couple of teams were eliminated last week and now we are down to two. As I’ve been doing throughout the playoffs, here is a post-mortem on those teams. New York Islanders The player who jumped out at me the most is obviously Brock Nelson. He’s a big forward who hit his breakthrough at just [...]
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 time to take the Dallas Stars seriously as a team that could legitimately win the Stanley Cup, led by their red-hot backup goalie. Dallas 4, Tampa Bay 1 (Dallas leads series 1-0) Anton Khudobin was the big story again. The Stars goalie stopped 35 of 36 shots he faced, including all 22 shots the [...]
Thanks for joining me for another installment of The Journey. As usual, I'd like to start the week off by delivering some exciting news on the prospect front. Since the pandemic began, we have had a multitude of sporting events canceled, especially those on the international stage. Although many IIHF events continue to remain postponed, [...]
According to Darren Dreger, contract talks between the St. Louis Blues and Alex Pietrangelo have broken off to the point that the Blues have told their star defenseman to pursue free agency. https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1307108220935245825 I had assumed that the Blues had viewed Pietrangelo as a true foundational piece, so I’m surprised that it’s gotten to this [...]
After some doubt about whether it was ever going to happen, the 2019-20 Stanley Cup playoffs are almost complete. For either the Tampa Bay Lightning or the Dallas Stars, life in the bubble for two months will all be worth it. Tampa’s win over the Islanders was expected, as 12 of 15 DobberHockey writers picked [...]
Back in April we did a feature on 4th year breakouts, and then took a look at some players in their third year who had some solid potential to be 2020-21’s fourth-year breakout. This week I wanted to follow up on that article and see if more playoff games have given us any more information [...]
We now have a Stanley Cup Final, which gets going on Saturday. Lightning 2, Islanders 1 OT (Lightning win series 4-2) If you picked Anthony Cirelli in your overtime challenge, congratulations. Cirelli scored 13:18 into overtime to send Tampa Bay to the Stanley Cup Final. Here’s the goal, which didn’t look like it went in [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, the Wild and Sabres traded forwards with a year remaining on their deals. The Sabres brought in three-time 40-goal man Eric Staal while the Wild took in 29-year-old Marcus Johansson. No money was retained by either side. The Wild Receive: A versatile forward who lives in the 40-point pace year after year. [...]
