Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, I wanted to highlight the wave of rookies playing their first-ever NHL games and how well they’ve been able to adjust to the league’s high tempo and pressure. Some [...]
Can you feel it? Maybe you can even smell it? It’s the scent all degenerate gamblers and hockey fans clamor for: Super Saturday in the NHL. That’s right, people, Saturday Picks are back at DobberHockey and to say that I’m fired up for my fourth season rocking with y’all on the picks front would be [...]
It’s back! The NHL season has started and we are set for what *looks* to be a “normal” season. Don’t get me wrong, I was glad to have hockey back in my life earlier this year when the league had it’s 2020-2021 season but from a fantasy perspective, the repetitiveness of it all got to [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Evgenii Dadonov, RW/LW, Vegas Golden Knights (Available in 37.5% of ESPN leagues, 40% Fantrax leagues) - So let’s start with Florida Evgenii. He was once a 20-goal scorer in this league and a sneaky cheap DFS player from time to time in [...]
Lewis and Elan are back to try and cram analysis of a mountain of fantastic hockey into a commute-sized show. The new season is in full swing and the youngsters are lighting lamps in their bids to stick with the big club. Coaches in New York and Dallas give us surprise goalie starts, and some [...]
League drafts are now in the books, so where do players rank now? These rankings take into account average draft positions (ADPs) as well as actual values. You could use these rankings to compare one player to another as you evaluate your roster, make start/sit decisions, or even consider trade offers. We’re also factoring in [...]
Alex Ovechkin is already going to go down in history as one of the best goal scorers of all time. The only question is just where exactly on that list does he sit? After his two-goal premier and moving into fifth place all time, it seemed like time to take a look at where he [...]
The season is upon us. With it comes part four of the ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ series. You can find the first three parts here: Part I, Part II, Part III. This week we’ll cover the New York Islanders to the Seattle Kraken with perhaps another surprise selection or two. Again, I intentionally exclude superstars on [...]
Here’s the latest injury news from across the NHL! If you’re looking for information about a specific player and don’t see their name in this article, there probably haven’t been any significant updates about their progress since our offseason article. If you ever need injury updates for a specific player, shoot me a message on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza. Alex Galchenyuk – [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll look at early storylines to follow for teams in the Eastern Conference. Boston Bruins – Hall on PP1 While the goalie battle between Jeremy Swayman and Linus Ullmark will be important to follow, it’ll take some time before we can properly evaluate that situation. Instead, I think we [...]
