Fantasy Impact: The Vancouver Canucks have fired Head Coach Willie Desjardins, and the Florida Panthers have "re-assigned" Head Coach and GM Tom Rowe. The entire Florida situation is a weird one. Dale Tallon put together a strong, young, deep team that made the playoffs in 2015-16 and was clearly on the rise. Tallon was [...]
Ramblings: Reflecting on some Red Wings, top D scorers, Point, Kane, Lee, Couturier, McDavid and more (Apr.10) *** My 11th annual Interactive Playoff Draft List is fully updated and available for immediate download. Get it here * I’ll be setting up two DobberHockey contests. One is the NHL Bracket Challenge. The other is the second [...]
The Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues, April edition Curated from the overall Top 300 skaters list, found here. The Rules: These are for points-only leagues, and so this is both a long-term and short-term projection of upside measured against immediate dividends. Generally speaking, a rating of two players that [...]
The Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues, April edition The Rules: These are for points-only leagues, and so this is both a long-term and short-term projection of upside measured against immediate dividends. Generally speaking, a rating of two players that are within +/- 5.0 rating points is an indication of [...]
Free playoff player boxes, for those who would like to run simple pools at the office... Every year in April (for the NHL playoffs) and in August (for the regular season) I group players into comparable boxes and post them online for people to enjoy for free. Whether it's for the office or just [...]
Kris Letang will have surgery on a herniated disc in his neck and will be sidelined 4-6 months. Impact: On the bright side, at least it's not another serious concussion. Then again, if a head injury is the most serious - the neck has to be right there at number two. Letang had reportedly [...]
Ramblings: Playoff Draft List is Up; Marchand to be Suspended? MacArthur Returns and more (Apr.05) *** First: The free fantasy hockey game Dobbernomics is going to be full steam ahead for the playoffs. Sign up here to get notified when you can put your team in/start your playoff league. I’ll have a little competition going [...]
Ramblings: McDavid, Marchand, Simmonds, Lindholm, Yandle, Granlund and much more (Mar.29) *** Brad Marchand ended a three-game pointless drought – his only three-game pointless drought of the season – with an assist last night. Even if he is pointless the rest of the way, his 81-point season is still unbelievable. He has 13 PPPts more [...]
It will be a busy week for NHL GMs in late June. The Las Vegas Expansion Draft takes place on June 21, a Wednesday. The NHL Entry Draft is two days later on the Friday and Saturday. I wanted to get a pretty good picture of which players will be available, which ones will [...]
Blackhawks Strong-Arm Central – Anatomy of a Late Season Run The Blackhawks got absolutely shellacked in Sunrise this weekend. Their 7-0 loss to the Panthers Saturday night was their worst since a 9-2 beating at the hands of Edmonton in November of 2011, and ended a week also featuring uninspired efforts against lowly Colorado [...]
