MacKenzie Weegar finished last season at minus-33, and 9-cat drafters are pricing it: his ADP sits at 123 as August closes. That minus-33 was worn on a Calgary team that finished with the league's third-worst goal differential. The defenseman who wore it now plays in Utah, and when you forecast his plus/minus from the jersey [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber and his team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in [...]
The arriving class Bubble keeper decisions lock this week, and the hardest slots are the ones a rookie is asking for. The board below covers the 15 drafted skaters with fewer than 40 career NHL games and a serious claim on 2026-27 minutes. Players who already banked a full NHL season like Macklin Celebrini and [...]
Every August the depth-chart sites publish projected lines for all 32 teams, and every August fantasy players draft off them. I have never seen anyone check whether those charts come true, so I did: six years of archived August depth charts, 2019 through 2024, 5,947 player-slots pulled from the Wayback Machine and scored against what [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber and his team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in [...]
In last week's Analytics Advantage, we covered how the 60-start workhorse goalie doesn't really exist anymore, how much (or how little) a goaltender's workload has changed over the decades, the prevalence of back-to-back starts and performance within those starts, as well as team goaltending philosophies or lack thereof. Go read that to get the foundation [...]
Dobber's Offseason Fantasy Grades: Washington Capitals For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber and his team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice [...]
There is a number on your goalie board this fall that you should stop believing in: 60 starts. Nobody in the NHL projects to get there. Karel Vejmelka led the entire league last season with 63, a figure that wouldn't have cracked the top ten in 2007-08: the year Evgeni Nabokov and Martin Brodeur both [...]
Picture two skaters next to each other in your draft queue this September. Both scored at about a two-point-per-game fantasy clip last season; both are penciled into a top-six job this fall with a real shot at power-play time. One is 21, entering his second NHL season. The other is 26, entering his fifth. The [...]
Two forwards finish a season with the same point total, the same shot volume, the same power-play time. One plays on a team that wins 60% of its games; the other plays on a team that was selling by American Thanksgiving. In most fantasy formats those are not the same player — and the entire [...]
