Thursday was the last day of exhibition games before the real fun gets started on Saturday. Like Mike Clifford last night, I’ll mainly recap games here, since we now have those to talk about. I’ll start with the late Wednesday game, as it might have been on past Mike’s bedtime in the Maritimes. The Canucks/Jets [...]
The Dobber Hockey writers continue to make predictions with their picks for the Western Conference play-in series. You can also view their Eastern Conference picks here. Just like in the East, you’ll see each writer’s predicted winner, along with the number of games that it will take for that team to win. Remember, the play-in [...]
These past few months have been crazy, but the crew at Dobber Hockey is ready for some hockey again. And with that, some predictions for the play-in tournament. Today, the writers weigh in with their predictions for the Eastern Conference play-in tournament in Toronto. Tomorrow, you’ll see the predictions for the Western Conference play-in tournament [...]
Good news for Blackhawks fans, as Corey Crawford returned to practice on Saturday. Crawford revealed that he had tested positive for COVID-19 and had been in quarantine. The Blackhawks will need a healthy Crawford in order to have a chance against McDavid, Draisaitl, and the high-flying Oilers. More on Crawford and the Hawks in a [...]
I shared a few thoughts (and even some lame jokes) regarding the Seattle team name on my Twitter account. Complete thoughts don’t always appear on Twitter, so I’ll expand on what I think. I’ll admit that I thought the Kraken name was a gimmicky joke at first. All I knew about kraken was from the [...]
It’s always news if Sidney Crosby leaves practice early. That’s what happened on Saturday, when the Penguins captain left in the second period of the team’s scrimmage for undisclosed reasons. For what it’s worth, Conor Sheary (remember he got traded back to the Penguins?) thought it was just a maintenance issue, but coach Mike Sullivan [...]
The Vezina Trophy finalists were announced on Friday: Connor Hellebuyck, Andrei Vasilevskiy, Tuukka Rask. Here is the basic stats comparison of the three goalies using the Compare Goalies feature from Frozen Tools. NameScoreGPWLOTLSOGASASVGAASV%CONNOR HELLEBUYCK458312156140179616562.570.922TUUKKA RASK4412686585118911042.120.929ANDREI VASILEVSKIY252351433133160514722.560.917 And a partial extended stats comparison. I removed the last several columns on special teams save percentage, distance save [...]
The Lady Byng Trophy finalists were announced on Thursday: Auston Matthews, Ryan O’Reilly, and Nathan MacKinnon. To fantasy owners, being nominated for this award should mean “move these guys down a notch in your rankings if your league counts penalty minutes.” If you believe the league will use a points-to-penalty minutes ratio to pick a [...]
By this time next month, the NHL should be well into its return-to-play plan with games in hub cities Toronto and Edmonton. This is provided that the COVID-19 situations in those cities don’t get out of control, though. Although play-in round and playoff stats aren’t counted in most regular-season fantasy leagues, we will keep an [...]
On Saturday more players opted out of the return-to-play plan, including Mike Green, Sven Baertschi, Roman Polak, Lias Andersson, Steven Kampfer, Karl Alzner, and Zach Trotman. As mentioned yesterday, Travis Hamonic has also opted out. It might be easy to assume that some players are opting out because they are unhappy with their current situations [...]
