How insane were those first few hours of free agency? I’ve never seen anything like it. Just an impressive amount of player movement in both volume and magnitude. Of course, with all that early movement there isn’t much left for the rest of summer. But I think we are all willing to accept that trade [...]
The Canucks continue to be active, grabbing Derek Dorsett off the Rangers for a third rounder. So technically they got Bonino, Sbisa, Dorsett and a 1st for Kesler. The live draft chat is open and rolling - join the fun here. I'm (Dobber) there now! *** It’s Draft Day!!! No, not that [...]
Make sure you pick up the 2014 Dobber Prospects Report. It's exactly the tool you need for your keeper league. * With draft time swiftly approaching I think it’s worth taking a look at “NHLe”, a metric for which Byron Bader at NHL Numbers makes a case for: NHLe is an equivalency formula [...]
A few signings to report on from yesterday – let’s dive right in… It looks like the Red Wings have hammered out a one-year deal with Jonas Gustavsson. This doesn’t have a whole lot of impact on Gustavsson himself. He’s a backup without much upside beyond that. What it does do is push Petr [...]
As many of the DobberHockey faithful know, I fight forest fires during the summer months. Fire, the cruel mistress that she is, had me called away for two weeks just after Game One of the Stanley Cup Final. It wasn’t the first Cup Final I’ve missed because of fire and it surely won’t be [...]
How pumped is league brass for this Stanley Cup Final matchup? I mean, Los Angeles-New York. That’s their dream, right? The two biggest US markets. What a win for them. As I mentioned last week I had the Rangers at 20/1 to win the Cup. I hedged that basically as soon as I could. [...]
Make it 21 straight years with no Canadian Stanley Cup Champion. The Montreal Canadiens were eliminated last night in a game they very easily could have won had they capitalized on their early opportunities. I felt like the Canadiens owned the first period. They really had the look of the team that wouldn’t go [...]
