This week’s focus is on two pivots (Derek Stepan and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins) who’ve yet to truly meet lofty fantasy expectations. Cage Match is here to determine whether either one might finally reward patient poolies this season or in the near future. Career Path and Contract Status Stepan was drafted 51st overall [...]
Part two of two: 10 tips to keep in mind when trading in your fantasy league... Welcome back to my list of ten tips for making winning fantasy trades. If you didn’t read last week’s part one installment, and its five tips, you might want to pause to do so now before diving into [...]
Five tips for trading in your fantasy hockey league. […]
Rick Roos is back with his annual Fearless Forecasts - 10 bold predictions for you to seriously ponder (or maybe snicker at)... Last year saw me resurrect a former DobberHockey staple by making ten Fearless Forecasts for the 2015-16 campaign; and I’m back to put on my prognosticator’s cap for 2016-17! But before [...]
Great analysis here on which player is the better fantasy own - Alexander Wennberg or Sam Bennett? We’re sticking with youngsters again – this time to cover Alexander Wennberg and Sam Bennett. The promising pivots had better 2015-16 seasons than would first appear, as although they combined for only 76 points in 146 games [...]
Who is the better fantasy own - Elias Lindholm or Andre Burakovsky? Why both players are better than you think... With only three weeks left until the pucks drop on the 2016-17 regular season, poolies are increasingly facing tough decisions, including whether to keep (or when to draft) players who seem poised to succeed [...]
Which team will prevail - Team Canada or Team USA? Roos runs through it point by point to come up with a prediction Thanks to everyone who read last week’s column on North America vs. Russia. We’re mere days from finding out if cage match was correct in pointing toward Team Russia as the [...]
Digging deep and breaking down Teams North America and Russia - which one will win? Welcome to the first of two special Cage Matches to celebrate the 2016 World Cup of Hockey! Although every year hockey’s best are pitted against each other in the World Championships and World Juniors, the World Cup - being [...]
Jakob Silfverberg a better fantasy own than Nazem Kadri? Rick Roos says "yes" - and here's why... This week’s match came to me as I was preparing the recent Breakout Forwards Tournament. It features two players – Nazem Kadri and Jakob Silfverberg – who enter 2016-17 as fantasy question marks. Does either have what [...]
The better fantasy own: Colton Parayko or Seth Jones? (As well as last week's poll results) Thanks again to everyone who voted in the summer Cage Match Tournaments. Participation and readership were far above 2015 levels; hopefully I can measure up when it comes time for the next tournament, which I have pegged for [...]
