Fantasy Hockey Top 10

Players who start the majority of their shifts in the offensive zone means one of two things: Either that player is excellent on offense, or horrible on defense. As a Habs fan, I always remember Yanic Perreault’s seasons with Montreal. Even though he was the best faceoff guys in the league (he won 61.4 per [...]

  In every hockey league season, there are always a few players who completely shock us with their production. Last year saw guys like Eric Staal, Brad Marchand and Conor Sheary outperform pretty much every projection there was. This year will be no different. Predicting these players is difficult, but it’s also a lot of [...]

The most popular fantasy hockey pool host quietly opened on the weekend, and there are a few rankings that leaves me scratching my head. The Yahoo draft layout uses three different sets of rankings: The expert pre-season rankings, the ranking based on league settings, and the average draft position. Note that the autodraft uses the [...]

Every fantasy season is going to have its own set of disappointments. Some disappointments are injury related. Other disappointments come from trading away an underperformer before he breaks out. But the most common disappointment is when your draft day darlings turn into duds. Most of the drafting disappointments is because you reached too early for [...]

Tomorrow is like Christmas for many fantasy general managers as this year’s Dobber’s 2017-18 Fantasy Hockey Guide will be released. To grab your copy of the guide, check out the Dobber Shop. I wrote a column for the guide about 20 players that won’t do much this upcoming campaign, but will be excellent fantasy assets [...]

Fantasy hockey general managers can sometimes be a fickle sort. No matter how great a player may have been, we oftentimes look at the downside of player movements. Not necessarily who a trade or a free agent signing helps, but also who it hurts. Below are 10 players who has seen their fantasy values decrease [...]

  The NHL offseason is nothing if not fun for fantasy owners. Pretty much every NHLer starts over with a clean slate, and it’s even better if the player is on a new team. Hopes are high and their fantasy values can soar. Until the season actually begins and we realize we were fools to [...]

There are always players whose high salary makes fantasy general managers wary in cap leagues, and with good reason. Last week, we looked at the top 10 worst contracts. These players burn fantasy GMs with their horrible contracts. But they also give some other players a bad name. Some NHLers are unfairly ostracized in fantasy [...]

With the major free agent contracts mostly signed, which existing contracts are the worst? […]

Despite the NHL not making many trades this past weekend doesn’t mean that you need to stay quiet in your fantasy league. Some good buy-low candidates would be picking up players that could be in line for a fourth-season breakout. Many fantasy GMs subscribe to the theory of the fourth-year player breaking out. You could [...]