Eastern Edge

  It’s bubble time in the East. These are the players that you should be targeting in your keeper league redrafts and depending on the depth of your league the players that if you already own them you should take a second look at before dismissing them off your squad. Only eight more days until [...]

  It feels like we are all sitting around waiting for the Erik Karlsson proverbial shoe to drop. I’ve been trying to tailor my team previews to teams unlikely to make splash moves that remarkably change the fantasy makeup for the upcoming campaign.  So this week we’ll go with a team that didn’t provide all [...]

  It was an exciting free agency period with Tavares moving on to his boyhood team.  You can check out the recaps of all the moves in our section on fantasy impacts here.  I’m counting down the days until the 2018-2019 Dobber Fantasy Guide is released on August 1st.  Dobber will have you covered as [...]

  I’ve sufficiently exhausted most of the advanced stat metrics I could throw at you this summer, but don’t worry, we’ll keep revisiting them and hopefully as promised wrap everything up come draft time with ADP values.  Now it’s time to switch gears and start looking at each team in the East, we’ll take a [...]

It pains me every year to start looking at goalie stats, picking goalies is notoriously difficult.  Do you hate picking goalies so much that you’ll sacrifice a first round pick on Carey Price just so you can set it and forget it? Right, and then last season happens are you’re sitting there with the thoughts [...]

Chris Kane has started the summer series off for the Western Conference – I recommend checking out the Anaheim article.  Nothing better than stuffing your lineup with a couple Anaheim players to reap the off night schedules.  In order to find out which team has the best off night schedules you should be chomping at [...]

  The game has evolved to producing more shots – it has been covered by Mike Clifford as well.  Rather than focus on the trend of shot volume increase, I wanted to take a look at the top scoring players in the East last year and see how their shot volumes changed from 2016-2017 to [...]

  Mike Clifford has used the ramblings to elaborate on the league wide trends recently.  One piece specifically (HERE  and HERE) about scoring from the backend caught by eye, because I’ve had this gut feeling that I’ve been ranking defenseman incorrectly.   Mike’s piece all but solidified that thought – imagine playing in a league where [...]

Last week I took a look at the predictive value of primary assists for total points scored (you can find that article here Primary Assist Rates to Monitor). Most of the time was spent discussing the value of a primary rate percentage and whether it is predictive of the total points scored for a player.  [...]

Completely outside the topic of the Eastern Conference but how about what is going on in Vegas right now?  I mean in all actuality if you try to wrap your head around making The Cup Final in year one it’s almost impossible. There will be a movie made about this one – that’s for sure.  [...]