Khurram Sher writes Eastern Edge every week, where the focus is on Eastern Conference teams and players. Khurram has also written for GoaliePost.
The second half of the NHL season is upon us, and it seems time has flown by. But we have to keep our eye on the prize: top spot in our respective fantasy leagues. Below are a few players to help down the stretch. For more even information, pick up our Dobber Midseason Guide! TAYLOR [...]
The 2021 Dobber Hockey Midseason Guide is now available! It has all the information you need to make a run for your league’s title, including first-half analysis, second-half projections, and prospect coverage to prepare you for the future. It’s hard to keep up with everything going on across the league with this year’s condensed schedule, [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at players riding hot streaks across the conference. I used Dobber’s Frozen Tools to come up with this list of players and I can’t express how useful the platform is. In addition to hot/cold streaks, you can look at line combinations and how certain players perform against certain [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss a few players who aren’t rostered in most fantasy leagues despite their high rates of production. Nick Ritchie With 14 points in 19 games, the 25-year-old forward is having the most productive season of his young career. But is this a flash in the pan, or a sign [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll see how the East’s most productive defensemen this year compare to those of recent years. This article was inspired by Grant’s piece on the top 15 multi-category defensemen in the West, so I recommend you check that out over here. The Process I looked at the highest scoring defenseman [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at the impact of power-play success rates on your fantasy roster. In particular, we’ll focus on an overperforming unit in Washington, as well as underperforming units in Detroit and New York. Detroit Red Wings Detroit’s offensive struggles in recent years have been well documented. So, it shouldn’t surprise [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge we’ll take a look at some ice time trends early in the 2021 campaign. Specifically, we’ll highlight two players seeing more ice-time than usual, and two players seeing less ice time than usual. Jack Hughes As a rookie last year, Hughes averaged 16 minutes of ice time per game [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll highlight players that you might be able to acquire at low cost, and others that you may be able to offload for a nice profit. As they say, buy low and sell high! Buy Low Rasmus Dahlin The 20-year-old defenseman hasn’t registered a point through his first six [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at two players who are off to slow starts in 2021: Cam Atkinson and Tony DeAngelo. Considering we’re just a few games into the season, I’d advise against making any rash decisions. Maximizing value is a big part of building the best fantasy roster, so please [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll predict the most valuable fantasy hockey asset from each team in 2021. For the purposes of this article, fantasy hockey value is the difference between expectations and reality. If you’re spending a high draft pick on a player, you expect a lot from them. With such lofty expectations, there [...]
