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Looking Ahead – Week 12

By Dave Poleck|2015-07-24T10:25:50-04:00December 24th, 2010|Looking Ahead|

Outdoor hockey

A tough decision can be made easier with these charts showing you the best five and worst five schedules for upcoming seven-day periods. Some of you used them last year but for the benefit of new readers here is a refresher. The number next to the team indicates the 'multiplier' to use on a player's point-per-game pace to give you an idea how many points to expect for that week.

Those of you who are in a Sunday to Saturday league are in luck this week with not one, but two five game weeks. Unfortunately, the first one is for the Florida Panthers. I say that jokingly, but when looking at the stats, they actually sit at 15th for goals per game in the league at 2.70, which isn’t too bad considering their loss of Nathan Horton and the lack of production from players who we were all hoping would step up.

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15 Points to Consider – Holiday Edition

By Jeff Angus|2015-07-24T10:25:56-04:00December 23rd, 2010|z-Archives (other articles)|

Weber

Elliotte Friedman’s weekly 30 Thoughts column on the CBC website is currently the best read in hockey. Friedman is insightful, articulate, knowledgeable, fair, and most importantly, interesting. He has sources and contacts in the hockey world that most could only dream of. He has an ability which is rare in this day and age - providing a balanced and reasonable opinion on the league, the players, and all 30 of the clubs.

Each week I will post my own observations (I couldn’t completely steal Friedman’s idea so I’ll pick a number other than 30) – with a heavy emphasis on the fantasy side of hockey, of course. Prospects, goalies, sleepers, busts, it will all be covered each week.

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Falling Behind? Get a Rhythm

By Dobber Sports|2010-12-22T16:12:34-05:00December 22nd, 2010|z-Archives (other articles)|

Johnny Cash couldn’t have known it, but he gave first-rate fantasy hockey advice in 1956 when he told us to “get a rhythm.”

Fantasy hockey is a schedule-based activity. There are any number of crucial deadlines – drafts, weekly line-up decisions, waiver-wire windows, trade deadlines – some are only annual affairs, while others are week-after-week events. We neglect these activities at our team’s peril.

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Santa or The Grinch?

By Ryan Ma|2015-07-24T10:26:01-04:00December 21st, 2010|The Wild West|

Shatts

Three months into the fantasy season and your team is either a) laughing it’s way to the top, b) still in contention just praying for the top-team to have a few injuries or, c) toiling at the bottom wondering where all that confidence is when you drafted your squad back in Summer. This week I’ll take a look at 12 players out West who will bring you plenty of joy, or spoil your holiday season.

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Don’t Mess With Chemistry

By Justin Goldman|2015-07-24T10:26:04-04:00December 20th, 2010|z-Archives (other articles)|

Bob

In what has to be one of the most interesting goalie dilemmas of the season, the Philadelphia Flyers are currently stuck with three goalies on their active roster. Russian rookie Sergei Bobrovsky, wily veteran Brian Boucher and the rehabbing Michael Leighton all have something to prove right now, which makes for quite the interesting fantasy predicament.

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A Look Back, Part II

By Ryan Van Horne|2015-07-24T10:26:09-04:00December 18th, 2010|The Journey|

Ennis

It’s been humbling looking back at some of the advice I’ve given. While some of it has been good – especially in Part I last week – this week I’m noticing more misses.

Looking back and re-assessing your judgment of players is a great exercise because it helps you adjust your evaluation skills. You see signs that you missed that would have told you a player was better than you thought, and you see which traits attracted you to a player like a moth to the light.

Here’s a look back (chronologically) at some more players I’ve written about in the last year, and how good my assessment was.

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Saturday’s Picks – December 18th

By Anthony Lancione|2015-07-24T10:26:12-04:00December 18th, 2010|NHL Picks/Props|

Santa Hockey

Season’s Greetings everyone!!

Last week was a marginal improvement over my debut, as I managed to split my picks down the middle. This week I’m looking to one-up that & continue my upward trajectory; hopefully surpassing the 50/50 barrier this time around. This will be the last time you hear from me until New Year’s Weekend, so here’s to wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and an opportunity to spend some time at home with your loved one, hopefully fitting in a little extra hockey while you’re at it! Can’t go wrong with that!

Now let’s get to it...

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Looking Ahead – Week 11

By Dave Poleck|2015-07-24T10:26:14-04:00December 17th, 2010|Looking Ahead|

Crawford

A tough decision can be made easier with these charts showing you the best five and worst five schedules for upcoming seven-day periods. Some of you used them last year but for the benefit of new readers here is a refresher. The number next to the team indicates the 'multiplier' to use on a player's point-per-game pace to give you an idea how many points to expect for that week.

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Swamp Gas

By Dobber Sports|2010-12-16T16:15:19-05:00December 16th, 2010|Eastern Edge|

Zajac

Heading into play last night, the Devils were only three points up on the cellar dwelling New York Islanders. If that isn't bad enough, the Isles have played one less game than New Jersey.

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The Rotisserie Challenge!

By Dobber Sports|2010-12-14T20:32:55-05:00December 14th, 2010|The Dobotomy|

fantasy hockey

As you may have read in the Ramblings, we have a team in our Pro Tier (in the DobberHockey Invitational) that is in dead last. As can sometimes happen when love fantasy hockey so much that you get into far too many leagues, life catches up with you and some of your fantasy squads suffer as a result. This is one of those situations. I have nine volunteers to take the reins of this squad and try and turn it around. If the person who takes the team over, gets it into the Top 5, that person will immediately become a part of DobberHockey lore. A legend, if you will. If the person can somehow win the league - then to me that's instant DobberHockey Hall-of-Fame Induction. No waiting period, no voting, no hurdles - just straight into the HoF for the pure awesomeness of it.

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