Fantasy Hockey Top 10

Fantasy Hockey Top 10: Weekly Rankings, Trends, and Deep-Dive Lists
Welcome to the Top 10 at DobberHockey, our signature weekly feature designed to highlight the most impactful movements across the NHL. Whether we are ranking the top waiver-wire targets, identifying regression candidates, or projecting future breakouts, our Top 10 lists provide a concise, data-driven roadmap for managing your fantasy roster.

Strategic Weekly Countdown
Curated by the Caleb Desjardins, each Top 10 report focuses on “Information Gain”—providing unique insights you won’t find in a standard box score:

The Trend Watch: Identifying the 10 players whose underlying metrics (Corsi, PDO, and shooting percentage) suggest a major scoring surge or slump is imminent.

Waiver Wire Priority: A ranked list of the most valuable free agents currently available in the majority of fantasy leagues.

Dynasty & Prospect Risers: Tracking the 10 most significant value jumps for young players and farm-team stashes.

Situational Power Rankings: From “Best Playoff Schedules” to “Top Power-Play Quarterbacks,” we rank the situational factors that win head-to-head matchups.

Analytical Precision meets Expert Curation
Every Top 10 list is built using the advanced metrics available at Frozen Tools. By combining raw data with the scouting intuition of our expert staff, we provide a filtered look at the league that helps you stay ahead of the curve. If a player or a trend cracks our Top 10, it’s a signal that every fantasy manager needs to pay attention.

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Top 10 Yahoo! projections that are too low

By Tom Collins|2016-08-29T07:56:13-04:00August 29th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

The top 10 Yahoo! projections that are too low As always, Yahoo's release of their fantasy hockey platform was met with lots of excitement and some WTFs. Poolies pored over the data immediately. Many people have been consumed by the rankings (Connor McDavid at #297th?). Or by the elimination of dual positions for many players. [...]

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Top 10 Unheralded Rookies

By Tom Collins|2016-08-21T23:24:17-04:00August 22nd, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

The Top 10 rookies who are somewhat under the radar for 2016-17... Much of the focus every year in fantasy hockey is on the rookies and who will start to live up to their potential. But too much focus is given on this year's crop of nominees and names in giant media centres. That's [...]

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Top 10 players with obscenely-high shot percentages

By Tom Collins|2016-08-15T01:07:06-04:00August 15th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Top 10 players with shooting percentages that were way too high in 2015-16 One of the more important things in fantasy hockey when dealing with players that set career numbers is to look into the reasoning behind those numbers. One of the main reasons is a much higher-than-normal shooting percentage. Some guys will always [...]

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Top 10 Goalie Battles (2016-17)

By Tom Collins|2016-08-08T08:17:01-04:00August 8th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Which goaltending battles should fantasy owners look forward to in 2016-17? […]

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Top 10 Bounce-Back Candidates (2016-17)

By Tom Collins|2016-08-01T02:12:25-04:00August 1st, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Looking at the top 10 bounce-back candidates for the 2016-17 fantasy hockey season. […]

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Top 10 Players Sure to Disappoint

By Tom Collins|2016-07-24T22:21:24-04:00July 25th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Top 10 star players sure to disappoint in 2016-17 (i.e. bar is raised so high they're bound to fall short) Although this may seem like the slowest time of year for NHL hockey, it's one of the busiest for dynasty leagues. Many fantasy general managers have already had to submit their list of dropped players [...]

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Top 10 Soon-To-Be Fantasy Debates

By Tom Collins|2016-07-18T08:20:56-04:00July 18th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Which future hockey debates could one day top Sid vs. Alex? […]

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Top 10 Gritty Players

By Tom Collins|2016-07-11T00:19:09-04:00July 11th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Collins reviews Sportsnet's "grit stat" and brings you his Top 10 gritty NHL players While looking through a bunch of statistics recently, I found a fairly-new stat that could be useful in pools that count peripheral categories. Sportsnet developed the grit stat two years ago, a combination of PIM, hits, fights and blocked [...]

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Top 10 Cheap Value UFA Signings (for Cap Leagues)

By Tom Collins|2016-07-04T15:50:56-04:00July 4th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Top 10 cheap value UFA signings that could help you in your deep salary cap league Well, that was a fun Canada Day, wasn't it? NHL general managers threw more than $400 million at players on July 1. The DobberHockey crew did a great job of analyzing many of the signings (you can see the [...]

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Top 10 Under-the-Radar UFA’s

By Tom Collins|2016-06-27T06:30:57-04:00June 27th, 2016|Fantasy Hockey Top 10|

Top 10 under-the-radar unrestricted free agents... Talks are heating up as we are just four days away from free agency. Most fantasy GMs in cap leagues are paying close attention to what happens. I've already written a column on the top 10 UFAs, so for this week's column, I thought it would be a [...]