Over the last few seasons, during bubble week, I have focused on the format I know and that is a 25-team salary cap ($95.5 million) keeper pool with 27 players on each roster (20 active and seven in reserve, but all salaries count). As it is the off-season, we allow each team to carry 28 [...]
Elan is joined by Jeremy to dive into which teams have the best/worst schedules for the upcoming fantasy season.
In fantasy hockey, bubble keepers present some of the toughest decisions. These players do not come with guaranteed production but have the potential to deliver with the right opportunity or a bounce-back season. They are the ones you hold onto in hopes they break out, maintain steady value, or fill an important role without requiring [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Brennan Des, and Dobber — The 2025-26 Fantasy Guide is now available for download! Projections by team and by point totals, sleepers, drafted players, rookies, goalies, [...]
David Dwork of the Hockey News is here to report on the Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers. Jesse and Victor interview David about returning pros Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart, Brad Marchand, Sam Bennett, Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell, Mackie Samoskevich, Seth Jones, Aaron Ekblad, Gustav Forsling, Sergei Bobrovsky, Daniil Tarasov. In Cat's Instincts, Cat [...]
For the last 22 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 23rd annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm of [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** With most of the elite free agents now signed, we can start to get a general idea of what lineups might look like for the upcoming NHL season. With that, I thought [...]
For the last 22 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 23rd annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm of [...]
Now that August is officially here, we are going to be transitioning from our roundup-related articles (like the MVP and playoff series’) to some more specifically forward looking content. This week we are going to return to the idea of potential breakout players. Historically in this column we review the 4th year breakout candidates, but [...]
This week I put together a new set of visuals using data from MoneyPuck to get a better read on how teams, lines, and goalies performed across the 2024–25 season. Each worksheet focuses on a different part of the game: shot efficiency, expected goals, rebound control, line performance, and filters for game situation like 5-on-5, [...]
