Daily Fantasy Hockey Tips (DFS)

I’m going to start off today having total agreement with Steve Dotzel’s Saturday article – that for these single-game fantasy picks, you first need to imagine a final score and then run with that scenario. But the issue for that plan tonight is that I envision a 4–3 overtime game that’s a coin flip as [...]

I think we were all getting settled in for another overtime marathon last night, popcorn and beer refills all around, when BOOM! And yet another of the Cup favorites found themselves on the wrong end of the handshake line, with another season of what could’ve been. I look at the Hurricanes today a bit like [...]

We’re down to four teams, and the Conference Finals begin tonight. Please raise your hands if you had these four squads predicted when the playoffs began, because none of the DobberHockey writers did - and you likely missed out, but now it’s truly time to take hold and ride the excitement. Is there a clear [...]

There’s no way I could write a hockey article this week and ignore the NHL draft lottery: I’m not a fan. Let’s bring back the “live” option, 1000 labeled ping pong balls, a barrel, and a blindfolded celebrity.  This “We’ll do the actual drawing in a closed room - just 14 balls and complex mathematical [...]

How do you stop a freight train? Or, in different words, what do the Toronto Maple Leafs need to change now - tonight - to knock off those prowling Florida Panthers? I’ve often said that a Stanley Cup playoff series doesn’t favor the team that’s “just happy to be here,” but that might apply to [...]

I’m writing this piece Wednesday evening, in the aftermath of Florida’s overtime win at TD Garden. Wow. Lest you forgot, Sergei Bobrovsky has won two Vezina Trophies, and he was far more of the story in this contest than anyone else. The “homies” in Boston gave two of the three stars to Bruins, not to [...]

The first four series are now two games in, and it probably should surprise no one that the Carolina Hurricanes are up 2-0. Last season’s playoffs, they were 7-1 at PNC Arena, and 0-6 on the road. So, a few quick bucks on the Islanders for Friday might look good. The other three matches are [...]

Four years ago, when I wasn’t yet writing about hockey, my very first article was the prediction that Tampa Bay, winners of 62 regular season games, would be swept in the first playoff round by Columbus. Ok, I’m blatantly lying. BUT the lesson learned here was that a team that’s been desperate to win every [...]

Surely, this is how the NHL envisioned their schedule back in the summer of 2022. We have three dogfights for division leads, and both wildcard races are undecided with only a week to go in the season. It’s a far cry from last year, especially in the East, where the eight playoff positions were largely [...]

Last night, the three-game slate’s biggest feature was the Central Division first-place contest between Colorado and Minnesota. Didn’t seem fair. 15% of the Wild’s salary cap is in limbo, and their best player is out on IR. The game was also at the Ball Arena in Denver, where the reigning champs, well, reign. None of [...]