Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues, May edition! More tweaks this month, mostly based on playoff performances. As always, players ranked between +/- 5.0 rating points should be considered equal value and at that point become a matter of team needs and/or personal bias. Click any [...]
Fantasy Impact: The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed undrafted 24-year-old winger Ilya Mikheyev to a one-year contract worth a reported $925,000 (the maximum entry-level contract). The Leafs get: one of the better goal-scoring wingers in the KHL, and a player who has not yet entered his prime. Mikheyev followed up a 19-goal season [...]
For part three of this series we are going to look at Right Wings in the West. We will be using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. For the purposes of this series, the ranks are based on [...]
Ramblings: Schwartz/Pietrangelo are back, top goalie playoff performers , the post-mortem for the Isles and more (May 069) *** One more team was eliminated last week. Here are my thoughts the team, the players, and what the future holds… New York Islanders By the point, we all know the book on Barry Trotz. He’ll take [...]
Ramblings: Some more post-mortems (TOR, VGK, NSH, WSH), Babcock, “The Penalty”, Mrazek and more (Apr 29) *** Four more teams were eliminated last week. Here are my thoughts on those teams, the players, and what the future holds… Toronto Maple Leafs The Mike Babcock issue – I’ve heard from a lot of Leafs fans (I [...]
Here are the Top 100 goaltenders to own in your keeper leagues - April edition. We're in the midst of the fun months, where I just go team-by-team and tweak without going deep into analysis. The next two months will see a lot of movement among prospects as I work through the Fantasy [...]
Ramblings: Thoughts on Murray, Jones, Marner, Byfuglien, Ehlers, some post-mortems and more (Apr 22) *** Four teams were eliminated last week. Here are my thoughts on those teams, the players, and what the future holds… Winnipeg Jets First, kudos to Dustin Byfuglien, who reached deep down and pulled out some extra career mojo. He struggled [...]
Here are the Top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only keeper leagues - April edition! Lots of graduates this month, I listed them at the bottom of the page. Lots of graduates means plenty of newcomers to this list and lots of movement upwards. On Monday evening the Top 200 Fantasy [...]
Here are the top prospect forwards to own in your points-only keeper leagues - April edition It's graduation day! The list of this month's graduates is at the bottom, and it's extensive. As a result, plenty of new faces this month. Click on any of the names to be taken to our DobberProspects profile [...]
Ramblings: Two Russians sign, Sid stymied; Stone, Stastny stoked; Jackets, Jets jacked and more (Apr 15) *** In early December I traded Vince Dunn for Nazem Kadri in my keeper league. At the time, I wanted the depth forward as it would keep me in the hunt. I also wanted a playoff guy and [...]
