Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy your time with your family, and for today – try to limit checking over your fantasy squads to no more than 15 times if possible.

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I'm just happy to be around for another Christmas. I always think about that. Daily, I think about it. Take it from me – savor every moment.

As I do every year (and hopefully for years to come), I have some interesting content for you to read while you wait for your family to get ready and finally make their way to the door and get their asses into the car! No hockey action to cover, so I'll throw up some stats of interest.

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Top rankings viewed on DobberHockey in 2024 (and the overall top articles on the site, period):

1. Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – September 2024
2. Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – September 2024
3. Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – February 2024 (no surprise here – this is because I was in the hospital and out of action for a few months, so for months this was the "latest" rankings to check)
4. Top 200 Fantasy Prospect Forwards – August 2024
5. Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – September 2024

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We posted over 1300 articles and rankings in 2024. The Top 35 articles read were all rankings – everyone loves to look at those. But there were plenty of great articles written this year. Here were the 15 top articles (excluding rankings) viewed on DobberHockey in 2024 (and kudos to Flip Livingstone!):

1. Flying Under-The-Radar: The Top-10 Fantasy Targets With Sneaky-Good Value (Flip Livingstone)
2. Eastern Edge: Ranking the Teams in the Atlantic Division (Livingstone)
3. Next Gen, Now: The Top-10 Fantasy Young Guns Already Turning Heads (Livingstone)
4. Capped: Potential and Current Injury Returnees Including Landeskog, Sergachev, and Ekblad (Andrew Santillo)
5. Top 10 Disappointing Players Who Won't Rebound (Tom Collins)
6. Chasing Lord Stanley: The Top-10 Stanley Cup Threats (Livingstone)
7. Ramblings: Updates on Luke Hughes, Celebrini, Sorokin, and Korchinski; Point Projections for Walman, Durzi, Burns, and Others – October 3 (Michael Clifford)
8. The Wingmen You Need: Top-10 Fantasy Left Wingers For The 2024-25 Season (Livingstone)
9. Ramblings: Quick Round Three Preview; 2024 Prospect Mock Draft for my Fantasy Dynasty League (May 20) (Alex MacLean)
10. 12 Fearless Forecasts for 2024-25 Fantasy Season (Rick Roos)
11. The Journey: Potential Prospect Sleepers for the 2024-2025 Season (Puneet Sharma)
12. Ramblings: Updates on Guhle, Swayman, and Pospisil; Point Projections for Morrissey, Hamilton, Faulk, and More October 1 (Clifford)
13. Lining Up: One Lineup Note from Each Team, Including Tsyplakov, Hayton, Meier, Michkov, Novak, Zuccarello, and Many More (Peter Ryell)
14. Ramblings: 5 Tips For Your Fantasy Draft (Sep 16) (Brennan Desouza)
15. Ramblings: Detroit's Top Line; Point Projections for Zegras, Barzal, Cooley, Kaprizov, and More – September 26 (Clifford)

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DobberProspects saw tremendous growth in 2024, with page views matching the DobberHockey traffic! Incredible growth there. Here was the No.1 article read in 2024:

1. 2024 NHL Draft Rankings: DobberProspects' Final Top-128

And here were the top player pages read in 2024:

1. Ivan Demidov
2. Cayden Lindstrom
3. Berkly Catton
4. Zayne Parekh
5. Rutger McGroarty
6. Artyom Levshunov
7. Zeev Buium
8. Lane Hutson
9. Alexander Nikishin
10. Michael Hage

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Over at Frozen Tools, our "Last Game Lines" tool had over 500,000 views in 2024, the highest page viewed across the Dobber Sports Network.

Here were the top pages viewed in Frozen Tools in 2024:

1. Last Game Lines
2. Schedule Planner
3. Last 3 Game Lines
4. Report Generator
5. Hot Players
6. Compare Players
7. Game Preview
8. Player News
9. Line Combinations
10. Player vs Opponent
11. Regular Season Stats
12. Active Point Streaks
13. Fantasy Hockey Game Boxscore
14. Fantasy Team Manager
15. Depth Chart

Here were the top player profile pages viewed in 2024:

1. Wyatt Johnston
2. Juraj Slafkovsky
3. Dylan Guenther
4. Connor McDavid
5. Jason Robertson
6. JJ Peterka
7. Martin Necas
8. Quinton Byfield
9. Tage Thompson
10. Elias Pettersson
11. Brock Faber
12. Alexis Lafreniere
13. Logan Stankoven
14. Brandt Clarke
15. Tim Stutzle

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There's a new Dobber Darling in town. The fastest rising prospect on my Prospect Rankings…

So far, Kantserov's season at 20 is going better than the great 20-year-old season's from either Tarasenko or Kaprizov. It's early, but… https://t.co/Cgl6dE4VT2

— Dobber (@DobberHockey) December 24, 2024

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Kyle Connor hit the 20-goal mark for the eighth consecutive season. Among US-born players, that puts him in a tie for fifth all time.

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The longest active point streaks in the NHL right now, as found here:

Brad Marchand 10 games

Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Mikko Rantanen 9 games

William Nylander, Jonathan Marchessault 7  games

Kirill Marchenko, Zach Hyman, Mitch Marner 6 games

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For 36-year-old Marchand, he becomes the 10^th player 36 or older to enjoy a 10-game points streak since 2006-07.

Speaking of Hyman, he has seven goals in those six games. This is why he should have been put on Team Canada. His 54 goals last season were not an accident – his slow start this year was. He hit lots of posts, had some bad luck, and now it's correcting. Team Canada counted him out too fast.

Funny enough, Team Canada put a lot of stock in a small sample size when it came to Hyman… but didn't put any stock at all in a smaller sample size when it came to Logan Thompson. Pick a lane!

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Notables with the longest active pointLESS slumps:

Ryan Hartman – 16 games

Matias Maccelli – 9 games

Rasmus Andersson, Vladimir Tarasenko – 8 games

Matvei Michkov, Mika Zibanejad, Mason Marchment – 6 games

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Quinn Hughes has 324 assists in his career in 399 games. Only two defensemen in NHL history have more assists prior to 400 games: Bobby Orr had 358 and Paul Coffey had 326.

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Six skaters average more than 5.0 points per game in the Dobbernomics game.

Alex Ovechkin 5.9

Nikita Kucherov 5.7

Leon Draisaitl, Kirill Kaprizov, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon 5.4

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Top 10 face-off men, with minimum 100 draws taken:

1. Derek Ryan 62.3% on 132 draws
2. Claude Giroux 61.8% on 251 draws
3. Aleksander Barkov 61.7% on 234 draws
4. Vincent Trocheck 61.3% on 393 draws
5. Nico Sturm 60.6% on 103 draws
6. J-G Pageau 59.9% on 218 draws
7. J.T. Miller 59.8% on 242 draws
8. William Karlsson 59.8% on 193 draws
9. Kevin Stenlund 59.4% on 249 draws
10. Bo Horvat 59.2% on 280 draws

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Some interesting Home vs. Away production discrepancies:

Tim Stutzle 25 points in 17 games at home, 14 points in 17 games on the road

Zach Werenski 25 points in 17 games at home, 10 in 18 on the road

Filip Forsberg 23 points in 18 games at home, six in 17 on the road (!)

Sean Monahan 22 in 17 at home, nine in 18 on the road

Mark Stone has 21 points in 12 home games, seven in eight on the road.

Going the other way…

Nikita Kucherov leads the NHL in road points with 34 in 16 games. He has just 16 in 14 home games. Half his road production.

Mikael Granlund has 24 points in 21 road games, and nine in 14 home games

Dylan Guenther has 22 in 19 on the road, but just 10 in 15 at home

Dylan Holloway has 18 in 21 on the road, and just four in 15 at home (!)

Jakob Chychrun has 16 in 16 away games – only five in 13 at home

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Who has hit the post the most in the NHL?

Cole Caufield. He has done it nine times this season!

Name	Goalposts
COLE CAUFIELD	9
ZACH WERENSKI	8
PAVEL BUCHNEVICH	8
NATHAN MACKINNON	7
FILIP FORSBERG	7
SIDNEY CROSBY	7
BRAD MARCHAND	7
AUSTON MATTHEWS	7
NICO HISCHIER	7
ARTEMI PANARIN	7
MIKKO RANTANEN	7
BROCK NELSON	7

Who has hit the crossbar the most in the NHL?

Name	Crossbar
AARON EKBLAD	5
ZACH WERENSKI	4
FILIP FORSBERG	4
ARTEMI PANARIN	4
RICKARD RAKELL	4
BRANDON MONTOUR	4
SEAN MONAHAN	4
DYLAN GUENTHER	4
ELIAS PETTERSSON	4
SEBASTIAN AHO	4

What about combining them? Who has had the worst luck (that's bound to turn around), hitting the most posts and crossbars combined?

Name	Both
ZACH WERENSKI	12
FILIP FORSBERG	11
ARTEMI PANARIN	11
BROCK NELSON	10
RICKARD RAKELL	9
MATT BOLDY	9
AUSTON MATTHEWS	9
COLE CAUFIELD	9
AARON EKBLAD	8
BRANDON MONTOUR	8
JJ PETERKA	8
SHEA THEODORE	8
OWEN TIPPETT	8
BRAD MARCHAND	8
PAVEL BUCHNEVICH	8

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Who had had the most shot attempts blocked?

Quinn Hughes 111

Erik Karlsson 110

Evan Bouchard 101

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Who has shot the puck wide the most?

Filip Forsberg 49

Timo Meier 47

Brady Tkachuk 46

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Who has scored the most Empty-Net Goals?

Kirill Kaprizov 6

Adrian Kempe 4

William Nylander 4

Mikko Rantanen 4

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Who has drawn the most penalties?

Name	GP	Penalties Drawn
DAVID PASTRNAK	36	21
BRAD MARCHAND	36	20
NICO HISCHIER	37	19
MATTHEW TKACHUK	31	18
MARTIN POSPISIL	34	18
TOM WILSON	34	18
TROY TERRY	33	18
A.J. GREER	36	17
TYE KARTYE	33	17
CONOR GARLAND	34	17

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And finally…no group of lesser-known hockey lists is complete without a list of players credited with the most fights…

Name	Fights
MATHIEU OLIVIER	6
MARK KASTELIC	5
BRANDON DUHAIME	5
MARCUS FOLIGNO	4
BRENDEN DILLON	4
TANNER JEANNOT	4
MICHAEL MCCARRON	4

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Announcement – the 17^th annual Midseason Fantasy Hockey Guide will be released January 16. You can pre-order it here and you can find a 'secret' (not really) coupon code for 10% off, to help battle the terrible US exchange rate. (Hint: simply move the mouse to the top of the screen and the discount code will appear)

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I'll see you soon – I'm covering the Ramblings again next week. Look for it on Monday, December 30.

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