They say absence makes the heart grow fonder; but it also helps fill the mailbag, as I got more inquiries this past month than sometimes when the season was still going! As per usual, I’ll do my best to answer the questions while providing advice useful to poolies even if they don’t own the specific [...]
There’s been a lot of talk around when, where and how the NHL will conduct their entry draft. Normally, we’d have already had the lottery draw occur and know exactly who is selecting where (amongst the top 20 or so teams anyway). Of course, with the games on hold versus being cancelled, we cannot accurately [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how ice time affected offensive production this year. I’ll highlight players that performed well when trusted with more ice time than last season, as well as players whose production suffered while seeing a reduced role. In the tables below, I’ve listed players that saw a [...]
It sucks to say, given that we should be enjoying some stellar second-round playoff hockey right now, but we need to start looking to the future. We need to start preparing for the 2020-21 season given the uncertainty with this year right now. Whether the 2019-20 season finishes, whether we have playoffs, and whether 2020-21 [...]
In part three of fifteen in our look at GM ratings in the West, we will focus on Calgary and GM Brad Treliving who chose a life of hockey over pizza. Before being hired in Calgary as the GM, Treliving was the Assistant GM in Arizona from July 2007 to April 2014. He was unemployed [...]
Every few days, it feels as if there is a new plan on how the NHL is going to continue its season. The latest rumours have the NHL having its season continue in four cities. However, you can put me in the camp of this season being wiped out. I don’t think we will see [...]
The NHL is seriously considering holding the draft in June, which would significantly alter my plans for the release of the Fantasy Prospects Report. I have said on several occasions that this would go out some time in the first half of July and that I would nail down an exact date in early May. [...]
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! Today, The Athletic's Fluto Shinzawa tells us how much longer [...]
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 […]
After an eight-season tenure in Raleigh, the Hurricanes shipped Jeff Skinner to Buffalo in the summer of 2018. He went to post a career high 40 goals, 23 assists, 0 Plus/Minus, 268 shots, and 31 hits in 82 games in 2018-2019. In 59 games in 2019-2020, his numbers cratered to 14 goals, 9 assists, minus-22, [...]
