Eastern Edge

The injury bug is already getting frisky, contracts are being signed, and young players on the rise are getting their first chance on the NHL stage after cracking lineups out of training camp - hockey is all the way back. Unless the weather continues to have an impact, tonight’s NHL board features three juicy matchups, [...]

Major injury news, contract negotiations (or a lack thereof), line shuffling, roster tinkering, and of course, regular season hockey - we are SO back, baby! Welcome inside the latest iteration of Eastern Edge, a weekly fantasy hockey column that serves up all of the top news permeating the NHL’s Eastern Conference that fantasy GMs need [...]

A few weeks back we took a look at some of our favourite under-the-radar-type fantasy hockey targets primed for sneaky-good seasons that other GMs could be sleeping on or overlooking. Players that might not be getting a lot of shine or playing time but that could still serve as valuable peripheral pieces to round out [...]

Last week we dissected the Atlantic Division, ranking each team based on expected finish in the upcoming 2024-25 NHL campaign with this week’s Eastern Edge featuring the same process but for the Metropolitan. No disrespect to the Central or Pacific divisions, but there are a lot of improved young clubs on the rise in both [...]

It’s been almost three months since we last took a look at the best teams in the Eastern Conference and power ranked them by division. Considering how much money changed hands and bodies moved cities since July 1, we felt it was the perfect time to revisit our rankings and provide an updated order of [...]

Welcome inside the latest edition of Eastern Edge, a weekly fantasy hockey column at Dobber Hockey analyzing the top trending fantasy news impacting your squad on a week-to-week basis. With the summer lull of news and fantasy-related action nearing its end, our weekly look into fantasy happenings out east will once again focus on all [...]

Who doesn’t love a good sleeper? It’s that time of the year, hockey heads, the portion of the summer where we get way too serious about fantasy hockey and dive deep into draft preparation to find some diamonds in the rough that other GMs might be sleeping on. Combine that with the return of the [...]

At this point of the NHL and fantasy hockey offseason, chatter related to actual hockey news is starting to get noisy once again - indicating nightly action is getting tantalizingly close.Teams across the league will be opening training camps in less than a month, meaning the time for projections and speculation over what line combinations [...]

Pegging a player poised for a big season is a key ability of any astute fantasy hockey GM with aspirations for finishing in the money. Expecting big things from a highly touted draft pick or quickly-rising prospect is clearly a much safer endeavor than digging into the trenches for a player with less shine, but [...]

The past few weeks in the NHL have been, for the most part, whisper quiet. After the July 1st frenzy that saw franchises across the league shuffle rosters at a frenetic pace while spending well over a billion dollars, teams have been relatively dormant while the dog days of summer wind down and we get [...]