With the Ottawa Senators firing head coach DJ Smith in December and moving Jacques Martin into that role, the search for a new head coach effectively started before Christmas. With so much turnover in that role across the league, there was no shortage of applicants, and Ottawa finally made their decision by hiring Travis Green: [...]
In the fantasy hockey world, it’s never too early to look ahead at draft season to start pondering and plotting moves to get a leg up on other GMs who might be slacking. Digging into numbers, doing advanced research, and having a constant eye on how the rest of the playoffs unfold are all excellent [...]
This week, we will look at the salary cap space for each team in the West and look at the UFAs leaving and the RFAs who need to be re-signed. From the surface, it feels like there is far more cap space available for teams to sign free agents this off season than has been [...]
You could trust the panel with your first-round picks this season, as they collectively went 7-for-8 in picking a winner. The only series the majority of Dobber writers got wrong was Boston over Toronto, which could have possibly gone either way because it went to overtime in Game 7. This was not the year that [...]
The Seattle Kraken had a tough third season. Jesse and Victor welcome RJ Eskanos of Emerald City Hockey @EmeraldCityHky to the show to give us answers. Players covered include Jared McCann, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Matty Beniers, Jordan Eberle, Eeli Tolvanen, Shane Wright, Yanni Gourde, Andre Burakovsky, Vince Dunn, Ryker Evans, Justin Schultz, Joey Daccord, and Philipp [...]
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 — 1. The real story in Vancouver’s Game 6 series clincher was the goalies. Arturs Silovs was flawless in net, stopping all [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Having recently scanned the U23 players excelling in the first round of the NHL playoffs, let’s turn our attention this week to the playoff action in Canada’s top three junior leagues. [...]
We will return to the playoffs once the first round is concluded, but for this week we are moving on with part two of our Most Valuable series. Last week we reviewed the center position and this week we will be taking a look at right wings. As a reminder here is some context for [...]
As we are heading to the end of round one with a couple of series left, let’s take some time to analyze some of the series which have already concluded. We will be going over each series with an analytical lens, looking at the difference in statistics and finding some interesting numbers in the data. [...]
Although it’s not even been seven months, it feels like a lot longer since the puck dropped on 2023-24. With the regular season having come to an end, it’s time for housekeeping in the form of revisiting my 15 Fearless Forecasts for 2023-24 to see how I did, plus – and arguably more importantly – [...]
