Fantasy Impact: New Jersey trades superstar winger Taylor Hall along with Blake Speers to Arizona for three prospects and two draft picks. The Devils get: Prospect winger Nick Merkley has top-six upside but has been hindered...pretty much throughout his career by injuries. He has played more than 45 games in a season just [...]
Ramblings: Direction of the Devils, Athanasiou’s struggles, Dumba’s struggles, Roy, Pacioretty, Stephenson and more (Dec 16) *** Back from vacation, where I spent a week in Mexico for my sister’s wedding. I even got to meet a DobberHockey reader, so shoutout to Angelo! It was my first time out of the country, and first [...]
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - December edition! These were pulled directly from my Top 300 skaters ranking (posted here). As always, two players who are within 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value. Players between 70 and 130 are ridiculously [...]
On this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast: How quickly should you be scooping up Colorado's third wheel? Which Rangers win and lose from the latest line combo shuffles? Do we have a new favourite Columbus winger to own? Are a couple flailing Sharks worth giving another shot? Has the time come [...]
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues - December 2019. As per usual in the December rankings, lots of movement and jockeying for possession as we try to sort through the flashes in the pan to find the actual trends. Where were we wrong in the summer? [...]
Ramblings: Digging deep on Subban and Fiala, thoughts on Puljujarvi, Rust, Dumba, Krejci and more (Dec 02) *** I was asked on Twitter about PK Subban. Is it over? Is he done? At 30 years of age and coming off a season that saw him tally just 31 points, he’s struggling even worse. Just [...]
Ramblings: Digging deep on Gusev, Bowey’s blunder, Iron Yan, and fading Phil (Nov 25) *** I was asked on Twitter if it’s time to drop Nikita Gusev, after I had advised him two weeks ago that he should “give it two weeks”. I liked the question and I wanted to delve deeper and I [...]
Here are the top prospect goaltenders to own in fantasy hockey - Fall edition! Every spring and fall I sift through the 200 goaltenders on my template and dig deeper into the prospects. It's a different rating system than it is with the regular list, as more emphasis is on upside and the team's [...]
Here are the top goaltenders to own in your keeper leagues - November edition! Value goaltenders by Tiers, not by ranking. Ranking is there for splitting hairs, but no formula is perfect. A goalie within a tier is as good as another. With the fluctuation of goaltender values, generally speaking you should not [...]
On this week's episode of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast, Elan and Brian are mucking about in the data trenches to get you the goods on the (un)sustainability of all the latest stretches, slumps and line changes, including: Should a 19 year old sophomore skyrocket to being a top 25 fantasy draft [...]
