As has become tradition, my first poll after the start of the regular season is one where you get to choose the Calder Trophy finalists. Of course, this season is a bit different, in that most of us likely can agree that barring a major injury one of those finalists is already set in stone [...]
Hoping everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. There were only two games on the light NHL schedule, which is uncommon for a Tuesday. The rest of the week still sees your usually stacked Thursday and Saturday slates, though with only one game left from the Penguins and three from more than a handful of [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll run through observations from October, uncovering a few buy-low/sell-high options in the process. Barzal’s Bombardment Prior to this season, Barzal was considered a pass-first player. Over his six years in the NHL, 72% of his points were assists, and he’d averaged just 2.3 shots per game. During the preseason, [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up! With three weeks of the season already gone, the next few columns will examine each team and highlight some noteworthy line combinations for your roster. It is still a small sample size but some teams have already hit the ten games played mark so there is more [...]
An interesting wrinkle with Winnipeg’s lineup on Monday night was that Cole Perfetti was moved to the top power play unit with Nikolaj Ehlers being bumped down. The top PP unit had three goals in eight games, which isn’t awful, but they had gone three straight contests without tallying. This was the change they decided [...]
This week in the Wild West, I want to look at four players to buy low on and four players to sell high for fantasy. One thing to know about buy-lows and sell-highs is that if you are rostering these players, it doesn’t mean you have to trade them or drop them. This is just [...]
One of the strategies many fantasy general managers implement at the start of the season is to choose a cut-off date before deciding when to drop underperforming players. Some GMs choose 10 games, others like to wait until the 20-game mark before giving up on a player. Note that we're not talking about those couple [...]
The good news for Edmonton and Calgary was that one of them was going to come out of Sunday’s Heritage Classic with a much-needed victory. In the end, the Oilers won 5-2 and more importantly for them, Connor McDavid returned to the lineup after missing two games, Evander Kane had a goal and two assists [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to bring up three players that are providing exceptional value for fantasy teams so far. I’m going to evaluate whether the paces they’re putting up are sustainable or if you should temper expectations. In other words, whether you should [...]
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. A stat you didn't expect: The Oilers have scored just 17 goals in seven games. Maybe they wouldn't have been shut out [...]
