Game 5 between the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning was a bit more of a goaltending duel that we had been expecting for this series. A couple screened shots by defencemen Ryan Lindgren and Mikhail Sergachev gave us a 1-1 game heading into the third period as both Andrei Vasilevskiy and Igor Shesterkin [...]
With Colorado’s sweep we are officially down to just one series happening until someone hoists the Stanley Cup. That means are DFS options are down to single-game Showdown on DrafKings. As a quick refresher, Showdown consists of a roster of six players. One of your six players is designated as your captain and that player [...]
We got a brief update on the statuses of Filip Chytil and Ryan Strome from Rangers coach Gerard Gallant. Strome missed Game 4, being a scratch, while Chytil left the game two-thirds of the way through after taking a hard hit in the corner. This was said update: https://twitter.com/ColinSNewsday/status/1534532101881610244 Now, in the playoffs, we rarely [...]
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - June edition! **** Available June 14 - Dobber's 16th Annual Fantasy Prospects Report - Pick it up here for immediate download! **** May and June are generally my "mess around with this list" months. I go through all the players and [...]
Welcome to a special edition of Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. For just the third time ever, the column is shifting gears to cover goalies instead of skaters, giving you Goaliepucks and the Three Netminders. The positional focus might be different this time, [...]
The Lightning evened the series at two games apiece, after an early goal from Patrick Maroon who is looking for his fourth-straight Stanley Cup, and then two more from the big guns in Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov. Ondrej Palat (more on him later) notched the empty netter, for his third point of the night [...]
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only dynasty leagues - June edition! **** Available June 14 - Dobber's 16th Annual Fantasy Prospects Report - Pick it up here for immediate download! **** May and June are generally my "mess around with this list" months. I go through all the players and [...]
The Stanley Cup Playoffs present some of the most unexpected moments in all of sports – making betting on the games a much more difficult task than the regular season. But since the second round is over and you now have a pulse on the quality of the teams that remain in contention for the [...]
This week’s Eastern Edge is the third part of a series looking at how players performed in new surroundings this season. We’ll discuss players that joined new teams ahead of the 2021-2022 regular season, as well as those that were traded during the campaign. Previous editions of this series are available here. Claude Giroux The [...]
First, congratulations to the Colorado Avalanche for advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals. It was just a year ago that we heard Nathan MacKinnon voice his frustration about having won nothing in his NHL career, and now he’s led his team to the precipice of the ultimate team prize. Prognosticators come and go, but strategy [...]
