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Ramblings: Bubble Keeper Week and Michkov vs. Jarvis, Raddysh vs. Thompson, Marchand vs. Stamkos, and Marner vs. Holloway – August 28

By |2026-08-27T07:42:28-04:00August 28th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

Bubble Keeper Week continues here at Dobber Hockey. We have been reviewing those end-of-the-roster decisions that fantasy manager agonize over when making their keeper decisions. On Tuesday, my Ramblings covered choices between Jason Robertson and Rasmus Dahlin, Jordan Kyrou and Logan Stankoven, and Lucas Raymond vs. John Carlson. Yesterday’s Ramblings went over Peyton Krebs vs. [...]

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Ramblings: Bubble Keeper Week and Krebs vs. Brink, Frondell vs. Wallstedt, Rust vs. Rossi, and More – August 27

By |2026-08-26T06:34:26-04:00August 27th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

Bubble Keeper Week rolls on here at Dobber Hockey. On Monday, Puneet’s Ramblings covered options like Mavrik Bourque, Marco Rossi, Philip Broberg, and Braeden Bowman. In my Ramblings on Tuesday, we had some head-to-head analyses between Jason Robertson vs. Rasmus Dahlin, Jordan Kyrou vs. Logan Stankoven, and Bowen Byram vs. John Carlson (with a little [...]

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Ramblings: Bubble Keeper Week and Robertson vs. Dahlin; Kyrou vs. Stankoven; Carlson vs. Byram, and More – August 25

By |2026-08-24T05:11:05-04:00August 25th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

It is Bubble Keeper Week here at Dobber Hockey! For anyone new to the site, every offseason we dedicate an entire week to those end-of-the-roster decisions that managers in keeper leagues have to make. They can be agonizing decisions because we know that one wrong choice can mean the difference between being a perennial contender [...]

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Ramblings: Merzļikins Injured; Projected Goal and Shot Increases for Quinn Hughes, Fox, Forsling, Broberg, Chabot, and Liljegren – August 21

By |2026-08-20T14:09:40-04:00August 21st, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

We don’t get a lot of important fantasy hockey news in the middle of August, but Aaron Portzline reported that Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins underwent shoulder surgery. The team said he’ll be re-evaluated in a few weeks to see when he can return to the ice. A few weeks from now would be [...]

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Ramblings: Analyzing Projected Goal and Shot Improvements from Slafkovský, McLeod, Duchene, Johnson, Barzal, and Lowry – August 20

By |2026-08-19T06:48:24-04:00August 20th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

We are just a little over two weeks away from training camps beginning and fewer than six weeks from the start of the regular season. Time flies, Labour Day is almost here, so the fantasy hockey preparation is in full swing. I have begun to assemble my personal projections and want to discuss some early [...]

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Ramblings: Signs of Production Concerns for Protas, McDavid, Konecny, Kaprizov, Robertson, and Eberle – August 18

By |2026-08-16T08:48:05-04:00August 18th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some of the stats that correlate well to future production both among forwards and among defencemen. The next three Ramblings after that focused on forwards whose tracking data improvements portend point production improvements, forwards whose tracking data has declined, and which forwards showed playmaking increases. Today, we’ll [...]

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Ramblings: Potential Production Increases for Nečas, Bedard, Tuch, Crouse, and Eriksson Ek – August 14

By |2026-08-13T12:15:05-04:00August 14th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

In a pair of Ramblings last week, I looked at which forward stats correlated well to future goal and point production at 5-on-5, then I repeated the same thing for defencemen stats. Go read those to get a foundation on what we’re discussing. Building off those Ramblings, on Tuesday we went over some forwards who [...]

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Ramblings: Signs of Production Declines from Fiala, Panarin, Dorofeyev, Buchnevich, Tippett, and Toffoli – August 13

By |2026-08-12T06:48:18-04:00August 13th, 2026|Hockey Rambling|

Last week, these Ramblings went through some stats that have shown good correlation to future 5-on-5 point production among forwards. On Tuesday, a separate Ramblings reviewed specific players who saw sizeable increases in the stats that correlated well with future production, and why they will (or won’t) see a points increase in 2026-27. Today, we [...]

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