Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues - March edition! New faces and new places. How did the Trade Deadline impact value? As always, players between +/-5.0 rating points should be considered equal, and become a matter of team needs or personal bias. Click on any player name to [...]
We plan to implement the new DobberHockey website after the changes, based on your suggestions and the notes from myself and some of my other colleagues here, in about a week. New logo and everything. Again, what you see presently is a bare bones website – but it’s a clean and modern one, so the [...]
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - February edition! This month I have added over 40 new prospects to my template (most didn't make this Top 200 though), as I have been going through each team's entire system and looking at how the players are doing, checking [...]
Cam was just kicking off the writeup for today's Ramblings when something came up and he had to bail. So here I am! But first, I'll paste the tidbit that he did manage to get done (other than his intro and the start of his next point): Vincent Trocheck to CARI love this deal [...]
The Buffalo Sabres traded forwards Conor Sheary and Evan Rodrigues to the Pittsburgh Penguins for winger Dominik Kahun. The Sabres get: A good complementary scoring winger who has steadily improved as he grows accustomed to the NHL and there is still more untapped potential. Kahun's Pts/60 jumped from 1.9 last year (pretty good) to 2.4 [...]
A closer look into the deals that put Daniel Sprong in Washington, and Joel Persson, Sonny Milano and Christian Djoos in Anaheim. There were a few prospects with some upside who will get a fresh start. And although these prospects are in full-on "last chance" mode, maybe one or two of them catch lightning in [...]
The Calgary Flames have traded a third-round draft pick to the Chicago Blackhawks for defenseman Erik Gustafsson. They also traded a conditional fourth-round pick to Los Angeles for rearguard Derek Forbort. The Flames get: An enigma in Gustafsson. There is no other way to describe it. Gustafsson is either one of the best power-play quarterbacks [...]
In a head-scratcher of a move, Robin Lehner - a starting goaltender - was traded to a team that already has a starting goaltender. The Vegas Golden Knights sent backup Malcolm Subban and prospect defenseman Slava Demin to Chicago in return. Vegas gets: one of the better, and obviously underrated, goaltenders in the league. Until [...]
The Carolina Hurricanes trade prospect Janne Kuokkanen, defenseman Fredrik Claesson and a second-round draft pick to the New Jersey Devils for rearguard Sami Vatanen. They then flipped a first-round pick to the New York Rangers to land defenseman Brady Skjei. The Hurricanes get: A mobile, puck-moving defenseman in Vatanen and a big two-way rearguard in [...]
The Boston Bruins have traded winger Danton Heinen to the Anaheim Ducks straight up for Nick Ritchie. The Bruins get: a budding power forward. And although fantasy owners are losing patience (or have lost patience) with Ritchie taking so long to blossom, the reality is he is right on track. I spoke of this in [...]
