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, Puneet Sharma, and Dobber ___ The Fantasy Prospects Report is now available!If you don't have yours yet, get it at the Dobber Sports Store. ___ 1. [...]
Every draft develops its own identity. Some years are defined by elite centers. Others feature dynamic wingers or franchise goaltending prospects. The 2026 NHL Draft may ultimately be remembered for its deep and diverse collection of defensemen. While there may not be a consensus generational blueliner at the top of the class, there are multiple [...]
The Stanley Cup Final heads back to Vegas with Carolina up 3-2, and the two teams left standing are a natural experiment in how to build a winner. Carolina has spread its 63 goals across 14 different scorers; its top two finishers, Logan Stankoven and Jordan Staal, account for just 30% of the offense. Vegas [...]
This week we are moving on to the Eastern Conference in our playoff round up, so that means the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Ottawa Senators, and Pittsburgh Penguins. The first-round teams from the Western Conference were covered here. As a reminder, for this article we are going to look at these four teams and [...]
Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic joins the show to break down the Boston Bruins.
In fantasy, scoring rates for players go up and down, hold steady, go down then up, etc. In short, for most, things tend to vary in often difficult to predict ways. However, for a select few, year-to-year improvement has been the norm for several seasons. The question though is whether they can keep improving. That’s [...]
The Los Angeles Kings officially ended their coaching search by hiring former New York Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette. He steps in after a year away from coaching following his stint with the Rangers. From a fantasy hockey perspective, this should be viewed as a net positive for most of the Kings’ key offensive pieces. [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll take a closer look at Frederik Andersen vs Brandon Bussi and who should start Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final for the Carolina Hurricanes. We’ll also touch on Dylan Larkin’s trade request out of Detroit as well as a couple breakout [...]
Happy Monday y’all! Hopefully you have recovered from that Game 3. What an incredible series the Stanley Cup Final has been thus far. The Vegas Golden Knights are up two games to one against the Carolina Hurricanes, but each game has been a one goal contest, with two ending in overtime. I know the people [...]
*Note: Stats courtesy of ESPN Fantasy Hockey At the start of each campaign, expectations are placed on young players to have breakout seasons and blossom into the players they were drafted to be. Today, we are ranking those players who lived up to that expectation in 2025-26. Here are ten players who broke out into [...]
