Feature articles from the DobberHockey staff, or guest writers
Introduction The restricted free agent (RFA) offer sheet market has been the NHL’s Cold War of sorts. The NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) essentially handed every general manager the nuclear codes - but GMs seldom push the button. Since the dawn of the salary cap era in 2005, only 12 offer sheets have been tendered, [...]
Every year I like to think about the most important players of the Fantasy Hockey season. The best way to do that is to name year-end All-Star rosters with standout performers from each of the four major positions. Sometimes there are lessons to be learned. Other times, it’s about good stories. Here’s who I thought [...]
Ryan Brudner (@fantasycheddar) - Goalies are a special type of player in fantasy hockey. They are rarely consistent, hard to predict, and their perceived values are always in flux. Many have opted toward a #ZeroG (shout out to Nate at Apples & Ginos) strategy due to the unpredictability of goalies. What further muddies the water [...]
If Game 2 of the Battle of Alberta is anything like Game 1, you’ll want to take the over and there should be plenty of opportunities for anytime points from a number of players. Out East, the Carolina Hurricanes and New York Rangers don’t figure to light the lamp as often as their Western counterparts, [...]
There’s nothing like an elimination game in the Stanley Cup playoffs and Friday will offer three contests where teams will have to win or go home. That also means the spotlight will be on a number of players to deliver clutch performances to keep their seasons alive, or advance to the next round. Here are [...]
At the risk of jinxing things, we finally have a full 82 game schedule on tap again for 2021-22. Will that impact teams and players; and if so, to what extent? It remains to be seen, although what we do know is prognosticators will make predictions for 2021-22, and that includes my annual 15 Fearless [...]
By Scott Cullen, special for DobberHockey - It is easy enough to look at past scoring rates for players and that can provide a reasonable idea about what a player might be able to produce in the future. But there is more information available to dig a little deeper and one of the ways to [...]
In putting together this series of Top 10 lists to close off the decade of the 2010s (beginning January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2019), I asked the gang to go ahead and choose their preferred list. We’d go first come, first served style and I would take whatever is leftover. I told them [...]
Doing articles like this is really, really hard. My initial list I had cut to 19 players, and then down to 15 players. Once I got to 15, I had nearly an impossible task cutting it down to just 10. At a certain point, you’re just nit-picking small things, like not enough 50-point seasons [...]
In yet another way that fantasy mimics the NHL, while you may need great depth to win a fantasy championship, but it’s almost impossible to win one without an elite player on your squad. Every once in awhile, you have a player on your squad that puts up a season that makes every other general [...]
