Every Sunday, we 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, Alexander MacLean and Dobber — 1. Although the Panthers didn't look like much of a threat entering the playoffs, remember that they are a team that is only [...]
Maple Leafs 2, Lightning 1 OT (Leafs win series 4-2) “They’ve finally caught Lightning in a bottle!” That was the call from Chris Cuthbert, one that he had no doubt saved for the occasion of the Toronto Maple Leafs finally lifting their playoff curse. It was bound to happen sooner or later with this group [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. This week is the flip side of last week’s scan for young players who overachieved in 2022-23: we will use Evolving Hockey’s Fantasy Points Value Adjusted (FPV Adj) stat again, which [...]
Four games Friday night, with two more teams eliminated. All season, it seemed that just a little more offensive support for Ilya Sorokin (2.34 GAA and 0.924 SV%) and the Isles wouldn’t only have been a wild card team. The same fate bit them in Game 6, as their terrific goalie gave up two scores [...]
Coming off four Game 6’s on Friday night, we are treated with an additional three here on Saturday, which is the same number of games on the slate that we had last week. I really put the kibosh to the Rangers as they’ve gone 0-3 with just two goals total since making them my main [...]
Hurricanes 2, Islanders 1 OT (Hurricanes win series 4-2) Paul Stastny scored the series-clinching overtime winner at exactly 6:00 of overtime to send the Canes to the second round. The goal was the 37-year-old Stastny’s third career playoff overtime winner, also giving him goals in back-to-back games. https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1652132291055943680 Anytime I can post a stat like [...]
In keeping with our year in review theme, I want to return to a series I started back in August attempting to predict some players on the cusp of a breakout for 22-23. The premise was based on an article posted in June that attempted to define a breakout threshold in the NHL. The brief [...]
Injuries are the part of every postseason for every team, but the way Carolina has endured theirs is something else. The team got five games from Max Pacioretty before he was re-injured and shelved for the season while Andrei Svechnikov blew out his knee out a week after the Trade Deadline. Add in the recent [...]
It is Thursday once again, so let’s find some winning NHL props. We have three games on the schedule tonight, two of which are elimination games, giving us some interesting options when looking for winners. I’ve taken my time to carefully look over every matchup tonight, and I think I’ve found a few props that [...]
I’m writing this piece Wednesday evening, in the aftermath of Florida’s overtime win at TD Garden. Wow. Lest you forgot, Sergei Bobrovsky has won two Vezina Trophies, and he was far more of the story in this contest than anyone else. The “homies” in Boston gave two of the three stars to Bruins, not to [...]
