Eastern Edge

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue our review of the ‘Core Four’ for every team in the East. Check out part one over here.  As we work through the Eastern, Grant Campbell is working through the Western Conference. Make sure to check out his coverage here. As Grant established, ‘The Core Four’ are players [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll begin a review of the ‘Core Four’ for every team in the East. Grant Campbell, who covers the Western Conference here at DobberHockey, kicked the series off in yesterday’s article, with a look at Anaheim, Arizona, Calgary and Chicago. As Grant established, ‘The Core Four’ are players who should [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll run through some free agent signings, and I’ll decide whether or not (cop or drop) I’d target them in upcoming fantasy drafts for one-year leagues. Michael Bunting – Carolina Hurricanes – Cop So much of fantasy hockey value is based on public perception. The way I see it, Bunting [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss draft day storylines that could affect fantasy outlooks for the 2023-2024 campaign.   Boston Bruins – Financial Ruins for the Bruins The Bruins cleared up a fair bit of cap space when they sent Taylor Hall to Chicago on Monday. Although they have more room to breathe now, [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll finish discussing how certain players fared in their first season with a new team. This is the third of three parts. If there’s a big name you don’t see here, we may have covered them in part one or two. Matthew Tkachuk Calgary had one of the league’s top [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue our discussion of how certain players performed in their first season with a new team. This is the second of three parts. If there’s a big name you don’t see here, we might have covered them last week, or we might discuss them next week.  Johnny Gaudreau Gaudreau’s [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll see how certain players performed in their first season with a new team. This will be the first of three parts, so if there’s a big name you don’t see here, we’ll probably cover them in the upcoming weeks. Vitek Vanecek Vanecek’s third year in the league and first [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll continue our discussion of how changes in deployment affected production this season. Be sure to check out part one, where we discussed Alex DeBrincat, Sam Reinhart and Bryan Rust.   Travis Konecny In his first season under the supervision of coach John Tortorella, Konecny was trusted with 20 minutes of [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll take a look at how changes in deployment affected the production of a few players. This will be the first of two parts as we’ll continue the discussion with a few more players next week. Alex DeBrincat Over his final two seasons with Chicago, DeBrincat scored at a point-per-game [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss strong individual performances from players on non-playoff teams. Buffalo Sabres – Casey Mittelstadt During an exciting season in which Buffalo narrowly missed the playoffs, we saw many strong individual performances from the Sabres. The top trio of Alex Tuch, Tage Thompson and Jeff Skinner thrived, with each player [...]