It's a gold medal edition of the Dobber Ramblings, which is pretty damn exciting. I hope you're having an early beer and enjoying what should be a pretty good game. I previewed the game exhaustively if you're looking for some late night/breakfast pregame reading. * Essentailly Canada is the favorite thanks to their [...]
Canada is off to the gold medal game after defeating the United States 1-0. The game really wasn’t as close as it looked and even though the Americans did have 31 shots, they didn’t have very many quality scoring chances. Especially after the first period. As much as Canada has been criticized for lack of [...]
Here it is folks! For the first time in two years, Dobber Sports is having an event in Toronto. It's going down…TODAY! Tonight at 6pm, actually. At the Sports Centre Café (Yonge/St.Clair). Details here. But come sit down with me, let's talk some fantasy hockey. Also meet Steve Laidlaw, Michael Amato, Gates Imbeau, possibly Thom [...]
Fantasy Impact: John Tavares is out for the remainder of the regular season with a torn MCL.
Team Canada has just two goals from their forward group from players not named Jeff Carter. I understand that skaters like John Tavares and Sidney Crosby are perhaps still adjusting to playing less minutes than they normally would with their NHL clubs, but if Drew Doughty still has to provide the majority of the goal [...]
Reviewing the 10 best plus/minus players to own in fantasy hockey
The big news of the day, that's rocked the fantasy hockey world to its very core, is that the DobberHockey Forum has finally completed the upgrade and re-launched. A process started in mid-November and began with a failed VBulletin 5 upgrade, is now complete as a successful VBulletin 4 upgrade. The forum looks as it [...]
The Contrarian takes a look at "draft pick theory"
Presuming you're just waking up, Team Canada is playing their final game of the preliminary round at noon (EST, 9 am PST). They'll face their stiffest test of the tournament in Team Suomi; but, we should probably mention that Finland is so bruised and battered that Jarkko Immonen is going to center their top-line. [...]
There has been a lot of talk about how the Olympics could slow down teams and players that were on hot streaks leading up to Sochi. However, we also must consider that the opposite could turn out to be true as well. Players that were struggling during the first four months of the NHL season [...]
