Eastern Edge

The NHL Playoffs are in full swing – I’ve been laying low and trying to catch as many games as I can.   This week I played around with the difference between expected goals and actuals for RWs in the Atlantic.   However instead of analyzing one year shooting percentage I mutated the numbers to calculate the [...]

After each round these playoffs I’ll recap the biggest surprises for players from the East. It will be a nice way to break up the deep dive into specific stats.  The way players perform in the playoffs often impacts next year’s draft boards, so I’ll make sure we sanity check all the hype that will [...]

Well here we go – after reading DobberHockey articles daily for countless years, I am going to attempt to shed some light using the advice I’ve gathered here and adding some risk-adverse statistical spin to what has, is, and will be happening in the Eastern Conference.   If you’re like me, you’re still stewing over the [...]

Now that we’re getting to the short strokes of the 2017-18 campaign, with only a handful of games remaining, we have a number of “season-ending” injuries playing havoc with our fantasy rosters. This week’s fantasy focus player has been known to miss a game or two dozen in his short career.   Fantasy Focus   [...]

  With less than three weeks remaining until the start of the post season, it’s going to be tough waiting until April 8th before being completely immersed in so many awesome playoff skirmishes. Until then, we’ll have to settle for the battles by teams trying to punch their playoff dance cards.   Fantasy Focus   [...]

  With the pressure off of those teams who are out of the playoff race, many teams are playing all loosey-goosey. I love that Jimmy Vesey had a hat trick for the Rangers last night and that Seth Jones add two big power play points as Columbus fights for a playoff position. The Sens Magnus [...]

  Inspired by Sunday night’s Academy Awards, which I didn’t watch, I will attempt to put a fantasy hockey spin on the old classic. There will be no red carpet fawning or lists of the best and worst dressed players, that stuff is for The Hockey News.   Costume Design   Rest assured, those awful [...]

  Now that we’ve got the trade deadline in the books for another year, it’s time to focus on the playoff races. Like last season, it’s going to come down to the last day, which makes for some exciting hockey heading into the post season.   Fantasy Focus   Evgenii Dadonov has followed an interesting [...]

  It’s good to be back after more than two weeks away (on vacation) from pretty much everything, including hockey. I did manage to catch a few games late last week, but I’ve got nearly a two-week hockey black hole to catch up on.   For a while, I’ve been thinking about putting this weekly [...]

  This week, the Eastern Edge will take a look at some Eastern Conference players who are very likely to help you win your league with a sweet second half.   I wrote in this year’s DobberHockey Fantasy Guide that the Flyers Travis Konecny was one of my Sleepers in the East. That prediction didn’t [...]