NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has declared that the 2019-20 NHL regular season is now complete. The NHL will return on an undisclosed future date with 24 teams competing for the Stanley Cup, starting with a 16-team play-in round. For more, see NHL.com. Deciding a winner (if any) in your fantasy league When the NHL season [...]
Aside from wishing you all good health, I want to thank readers for continuing to send me questions despite the season being on hold. I suppose the situation we’re in provides us with more time to look at fantasy hockey and our teams and, in turn, ask questions about them. Now all that’s left is [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting 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 second of four installments, where [...]
In part seven of our look at the Western Conference GMs, we will look at future Hall of Famer Ken Holland who was the GM of the Detroit Red Wings for almost 22 years, the assistant GM before that for three years and the director of amateur scouting for seven years before that. He has [...]
In one-year leagues, one of the categories that I specifically aim to win is shots. My thinking on this is pretty basic. A player who takes plenty of shots is more likely to score, more likely to be getting lots of ice time and power-play time and more likely to be playing with other elite [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters. **** Here are the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league - May 25th edition. As mentioned in the last rankings set, Cale Makar has indeed surpassed Elias Pettersson for the pole position. We have a surprise defenceman cracking [...]
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 the Editor-in-Chief of [...]
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 […]
It’s time to talk goaltenders, more specifically, those that are potential rising stars. We are currently seeing a nice crop of young, promising netminders rising from the depths. Whether it was on a full-time basis or just a few matches, 2019-20 brought us a nice glimpse into the future. The raw talent displayed in goal [...]
We have spent some time looking at power-play IPP before (and marveling at the accomplishments of one Evgeni Malkin), but the stat that shows up in a player’s profile on Frozen Tools is a combined IPP. This week we are looking at that IPP number, checking in on a couple of player’s extraordinary results and [...]
