As a result of the long pause from any form of NHL or fantasy hockey fix, many armchair GMs are turning to their summer trading in their fantasy leagues to fill the void of sports. Before Covid ended up throwing everything up in the air, I had been in discussion to join another cap league [...]
No matter how much anyone wants to deny it, there’s always a good bit of luck involved in fantasy hockey. That’s especially the case when it comes to Band-Aid Boys, as even the worst offenders do defy the odds and manage to play 75+ games in some seasons. Which Band-Aid Boys might be on tap [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll wrap up our review of important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the fifth and [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! In this episode Elan is joined by Calgary Flames [...]
Now that the decision has been made to close the book on the 2019-20 regular season, we will begin to transition into roto rankings for 2020-21. Because the 2019-20 playoffs (play-in round) will not resume for at least another month, these rankings are in a place where they are not quite ready for 2020-21 fantasy [...]
In part 10 of our look at the Western Conference GMs, we will look at Doug Armstrong in St. Louis. Before St. Louis he was the Assistant GM in Dallas from 1993 to 2002 and the GM from January 24th, 2002 through November 13th, 2007. He was hired in St. Louis as the Director of [...]
One of the biggest fantasy-related issues for the 2020-21 season is what is going to happen to the NHL’s cap. Many fantasy salary cap leagues are tied to the NHL cap. When the NHL cap moves up, so does the fantasy league’s cap. Now there’s been some talk of next year’s NHL cap staying where [...]
Every Sunday, we’ll 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, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
Folks, happy Saturday. If you missed the official launch yesterday, Dobber’s 14th annual Prospect report is finally available for purchase (available here). Whether you are in a Dynasty league and need to take a deep dive into those late-round sleepers, or a yearly league and looking for a few diamonds in the rough, this report [...]
In this column we have used a lot of the Frozen Tool reports to gather league wide data and spot players who are excelling in various categories. This week I would like to go back to basics, to one area we have not yet addressed, the Player Profile. It houses a wealth of information about [...]
