A few years ago, Dobber was closely tracking Andreas Athanasiou in his quest for the most abysmal season ever, at least in terms of plus-minus. Through his first 12 games, Athanasiou was minus-16, and if it weren’t for a mid-season injury, he may have given the minus-100 mark a good run. As it was, he [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing Fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, I wanted to circle back to the Calder trophy race and highlight the prospects who have set themselves up to win the award. It’s early on — some prospects [...]
Here. We. Go (Joker voice). It’s Saturday, boys and girls. With an absolutely stacked NHL board featuring 13 games, we have a plethora of opportunities to pick our spots, stack some loot, and have a bit of fun while we’re at it. Even though the past few weeks of picks have been a bit of [...]
Here are the top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - November edition! As always, players with a rating within +/-5.0 of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team need or personal bias (i.e. wait time vs. upside vs. certainty). Click on a [...]
We have got an absolute monster slate on tap for tonight with 12 games. Personally six to eight games is what I think is the sweep spot in terms of slate size with the fringes of that range pretty good too. But when you get into the 11 and 12 or higher area, it all [...]
I can’t remember a season with so many teams having schedules this thin to start the year. The Colorado Avalanche are in the midst of their second of three weeks where they play just two games and the New York Islanders have only one game this week for the second time this year. There are [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Troy Terry, RW, Anaheim Ducks (Available in 32% of ESPN leagues, 20% Fantrax, 32% Yahoo) – Searching for an immediate fix? Need to win a category in a nine-cat league? Looking for a winger in a pinch that’s on an, oh let’s [...]
The hits just keep coming for Ottawa as the team added Alex Formenton, Nikita Zaitsev, and Matt Murray to the COVID list. That now gives them nine players and a coach on that list for the time being, which began Thursday night against Los Angeles. The game went on as scheduled, despite the talk that [...]
Welcome back to Part III of our weaving through the new landscape of defenceman values. You can find Part I here, where we covered the new expensive high-profile contracts signed over the summer. And Part II here, where we looked at some of the defencemen we had previously written off as overvalued, and who we [...]
Here are the top 200 prospect forwards to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - November edition! As always, players with a rating within +/-5.0 of each other should be considered equal and at that point become a matter of team need or personal bias (i.e. wait time vs. upside vs. certainty). Click on a [...]
