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. Let's start by discussing some interesting recent non-playoff related top Frozen Tools searches from the past week. Could all three [...]
Welcome to the 2025-26 season, we’re already trying to get ahead of the game here by getting rankings out for the fall, as most cap leagues have a keeper component and you can make trades through the summer. Getting on top of planning for next season now can have a big impact on staying ahead [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** While not a lot of young goaltenders have taken over as the undisputed starter just yet, plenty are making the most of their chances and a few have already staked their claim. [...]
We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today, we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is [...]
The Chicago Blackhawks have finished their coaching search and have landed on former Detroit bench boss Jeff Blashill. Blashill was let go by the Red Wings after the 2021-22 season but is returning to head coaching duties with the Blackhawks being not very far off from where the Red Wings of the late 2010s found [...]
With the second round wrapped, this edition of Analytics Advantage walks through all five Tableau views defining what each quadrant represents, then highlighting who stood out and why. Expected Goals Against (xGA) vs Save Percentage (SV%) Here we split the ice into four zones by league-average xGA (horizontal) and SV% (vertical): Top-Left (“Stingy”): below-average danger [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone. Welcome to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday I will be chauffeuring you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. As always I'd like to [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
Today we’ll continue our Eastern Edge offseason series by tackling the next quartet of teams in alphabetical order – those that punched their playoff tickets only to bow out in Round 1: the Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, Ottawa Senators and Tampa Bay Lightning. After dissecting the eight clubs that never made it to April, [...]
The panel picked three out of the four second-round series correctly, only missing on the Oilers defeating the Golden Knights. The panel’s lifetime record is now 150-93 when it comes to postseason predictions. Congratulations to Brennan DeSouza, Chad Simpson, Flip Livingstone, and Puneet Sharma, who correctly picked all four series in the second round! Here [...]
