With the Stanley Cup final about to get underway, most NHL teams and fantasy leagues are already looking ahead to this summer. In one of my dynasty cap leagues made up of Dobber forum members, our trading re-opens next week, our deadline to cut down to 30 keepers is July 22 and our prospect draft [...]
They say you’re never too old to learn, and that holds in fantasy hockey as well. Fantasy general managers who are still clinging to the old ways will find themselves struggling each season but will chalk up the lack of success to luck. These are the GMs who consistently draft over-the-hill players believing they are [...]
While the top rookies get all the accolades from the NHL, fantasy general managers realize some of the lesser-talked-about newcomers can be valuable pieces for future championships. Sure, having an Alexis Lafreniere, Kirill Kaprizov or Jason Robertson on your fantasy squad is incredible, but if your league counts categories such as hits, PIM and blocked [...]
Every preseason, almost every prognosticator puts out an article that talks about hockey players due for a bounce-back season. While some players are successful, others often fail. I believe one reason is the high expectations on a player whose career year is an anomaly. Imagine a player who routinely gets 50 points breaks through for [...]
Your fantasy hockey team is the same as an NHL team. While you need your elite players to perform, it’s your late-round draft picks that will win you the championship. There are players you can draft in the later rounds that produce better than a third-round pick. Trading for a player because you have a [...]
It’s always frustrating when you look back at a season and you think you could have been a contender if it wasn’t for your players all getting injured. We’ve all been there. Even if you shy away from Band-Aid boys, there’s always a chance that your guys spend more time on the IR than Kris [...]
Now that the regular season is mostly over, it’s time for fantasy general managers to take stock of the season and ask themselves: “Where did I go wrong?” In one-year pools, it most likely fell apart at the draft before the season even began. For those in keeper pools, maybe you overpaid for a few [...]
Now that most of the regular season has concluded and your hockey leagues have wrapped up, you’re probably already thinking ahead to your playoff hockey pool. Pretty much every race is determined, and with a couple of exceptions, most of the playoff matches are set. The first few rounds of a playoff draft are often [...]
“It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.” This quote comes from German composer and double bassist Eberhard Weber. I’m pretty sure he was referring to playing music, but he very well could have been talking about rostering players in fantasy hockey. All [...]
We’ve all been there, screaming at the TV, wondering why the head coach won’t give that young player on your fantasy roster more icetime. It sometimes feels as NHL coaches won’t mess with their lineup, like they would rather not change a power-play that ranks 23rd in the league rather than give a couple of [...]
