This week's Capped continues the buy and sell series with Tampa Bay through to Philadelphia. **** As I prefaced last week, “this will be a multi-week feature, covering each NHL team, analyzing one player to buy, and one to sell. These recommendations will be based on their performance versus cap hit. That means in [...]
Our third ever Capped “Buy/Sell” series is back. This will be a multi-week feature, covering each NHL team, analyzing one player to buy and one to sell. These recommendations will be based on their performance versus cap hit. That means in non-cap leagues, some of these suggestions may not be as relevant, but that [...]
This week's Capped covers players recovering from injury, and what impact their recovery may have on your fantasy team. **** Hot off the presses, get the DobberHockey 2018-2019 Fantasy guide today! **** In fantasy sports, losing a player to an injury at the wrong time can cost you a championship. In some formats, the [...]
**** It’s Bubble Keeper Week here at Dobber Hockey! Hopefully you have been enjoying all of our bubbly personalities thus far. For those of you stumbling here without knowing what bubble keeper week is all about, well we are ignoring approximately the top 150 skaters (based on the Dobber Hockey keeper rankings) and focusing [...]
Last week’s Capped article went over some key players who are going into contract years, that you should pay attention to next year. It is no secret that there has been a trend of players putting up career numbers right before they are due a new contract. As a result, just like looking for [...]
In years past, once the free-agent market cools down, teams turn to their own players, and look ahead to who needs an extension before next summer. Last year, we saw some big names re-signed soon after they were eligible for contract extensions. Connor McDavid, Carey Price, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Jaccob Slavin, and Martin Jones to [...]
This week's Capped recaps everything you didn’t know you needed to know about free-agent frenzy. **** As of now, more money has been spent on new contracts in the week since July first than you could spend in a lifetime. This is before Erik Karlsson gets traded and then signs an eight-year deal with [...]
This was mentioned last week, but again, the salary cap for the upcoming 2018-2019 season will be $79.5M. Adjust accordingly. **** Between the Entry Draft and Free-Agent Frenzy day, this week is one of the best of the summer. The draft is a day full of hope (and usually torment if you live anywhere [...]
First off, for those who missed it, Gary Bettman made mention on Wednesday that the salary cap for the upcoming 2018-2019 season should be between $79.5M and $80M. Adjust accordingly. **** Now that’s out of the way, let me take a step back and say it’s good to be back in the middle of [...]
Over a year ago now, I wrote an article on Brad Marchand, delving in to some of the strange numbers in his career to that point. I had painted a picture of optimism, but still fell short on his production these past two seasons. With him being thrust back into the spotlight for reasons [...]
