Between the cap league skater and goalie rankings, as well as the free agency salary projections, this is the first of four days in a row where I’m publishing something on the site. Lots to look forward to as we roll towards the weekend. * Victor Soderstrom was recalled after the Coyotes lost Troy Stetcher [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up! This week we will wrap up the ongoing series of a team-by-team review of noteworthy line combinations over the last calendar year for any useful information moving forward. Let’s dive in. Pittsburgh Over the last calendar year and historically, Bryan Rust has assumed a role alongside top [...]
Welcome inside the latest edition of Eastern Edge, a weekly fantasy hockey column here at Dobber Hockey analyzing all of the top trending fantasy news out east that will impact your fantasy hockey squad on a week-to-week basis.Compared to the action out west, from the record-setting Edmonton Oilers adding bodies, to the league-leading Winnipeg Jets [...]
Injuries up front have been a problem for Buffalo all season long. It started with Jack Quinn’s Achilles issue, then Dylan Cozens’s facial injury, then Alex Tuch missed time, and so on. The latest was Jeff Skinner, who missed Buffalo’s last five games. The good news is that he was back on the ice for [...]
Like last season, I will grade each team in the West to see how additions to the rosters have fared to date. Rookies are not included. Anaheim Ducks The Ducks brought in Robert Hagg, Alex Killorn, Radko Gudas and Alex Stalock in free agency. Between Killorn and Gudas, Anaheim added $10.25 million to their books [...]
One of the easiest ways to decide which players to pick up from the waiver in one-year leagues is to follow the mob mentality. When you're sorting free agents, you might sort by percentage of leagues that players are rostered in. Oftentimes, it can be tempting to just select the top players. After all, if [...]
Before we get into Sunday’s games and streaming options for the week ahead, let’s run through some noteworthy injury updates from around the league. https://twitter.com/MitchellClinton/status/1749122854262636941 Winnipeg’s top center won’t be available against the Bruins on Monday. Considering he just started skating by himself, I wouldn’t expect him to play against Toronto on Wednesday either. Adam [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to analyze a stat that I usually don’t love to include in my multicategory leagues, but it’s still widely used: plus-minus. In general, players can be hurt in this category based on their teammates’ poor play, but this stat [...]
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, Brennan Des and Dobber — There’s still time to fix your pool with the 2024 Midseason Guide! You'll find second-half projections, sleepers, advanced stats, historical trends, [...]
The Islanders made a splash on Saturday, firing Lane Lambert and hiring Patrick Roy to be their new head coach. I took care of the Fantasy Take here. We will get to see Coach Roy in action very quickly, as the Isles have a match with the Stars today (Sunday) at 7:30 pm ET. - [...]
