Fantasy Hockey Top 10

Every fantasy hockey draft has them. You know what I’m talking about. A fantasy GM starts going on about how his next pick is going to have a huge breakout season. He keeps hyping up the player, saying he’s guaranteed to be on the top power-play unit and is playing with the elite players. In [...]

  No matter how well you draft or how great you trade, the waiver wire is an essential tool for winning your one-year leagues. Many fantasy general managers simply gloss over the names on the wire, thinking there’s not much help out there. However, the smart general manager knows that are plenty of valuable finds [...]

Many of us go with New Year’s resolutions in order to better ourselves. We promise to eat healthier, exercise more, lose weight or learn a new skill. Of course, we can always improve ourselves when it comes to fantasy hockey. Below you’ll find 10 resolutions that you can apply to your fantasy hockey teams for [...]

Merry Christmas Dobber readers. As many of us gear up for three days of no NHL action, it’s a great time to give thanks to those players who were dynamite for us in 2018. This would encompass the second half of the 2017-18 season and the first half of this season. I always find looking [...]

We’re only a couple of weeks away from NHL teams hitting the midpoint of the season, and that’s always a good time to have a look-see at the hits and misses of the first half. Obviously, there are always surprises. No matter how many prognosticators you follow, or how many computer simulations are run, there [...]

  At some point each season, you need to take stock of your fantasy team and try to figure out who isn’t going to work out anymore. Now that we are two months into the season, we have a large enough sample size to get a good sense of which players just don’t have it [...]

Now that we’re two months into the NHL, many fantasy general managers assume that what you see from a player at this point is what you get. Not so fast. NHL history is littered with players who disappointed in the first couple of months of the season only to come storming back. Just last year, [...]

  A frustrating aspect of fantasy hockey is owning a few players who have yet to score a goal. Every time you check the game highlights, these guys are putting up goose eggs. It’s even more frustrating if your league includes categories based on goal scoring, such as overtime goals, power-play goals or hat tricks. [...]

While most fantasy hockey leagues are based solely on points, you can find leagues that will use almost any statistical category. Years ago, I was in a league that not only counted shootout goals, it also included shootout-winning goals. Which is just insane when you consider that at the time, the league decided the person [...]

  Much of the focus so far this season has focused around some of the great surprise players, and with good reason. Thomas Chabot is the newest Erik Karlsson in Ottawa. Elias Pettersson is the greatest rookie in league history. Max Domi is a top-10 point producer. And so on. While much of the attention [...]