21 Fantasy Hockey Rambles
Every Sunday, we'll share 21 Fantasy Rambles – formerly 20 Fantasy Thoughts – from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. […]
Frozen Tools Forensics – Looking to Free Agency (Part IV)
For the fourth and final part of our look at UFAs for next season, we will check-in on the players available who would be considered the elite of the UFA class. These are the established top-line players who can be considered tier one. Any references to WAR (wins above replacement) are from www.evolving-hockey.com calculations [...]
Capped: Assessing the Goaltending Market
A little over a year ago I put together some contract predictions for the bigger names up for new contracts. Here we are going to look at a similar set. It appears that there are six main goalies heading for new contracts this summer, and by my count, six spots in which they would [...]
Fantasy Impact: Buffalo Hires Ralph Krueger
Fantasy Impact: The Buffalo Sabres have found their head coach. After an extended search with all the big name players rumoured, the Sabres went a different direction, hiring international sensation, Ralph Krueger. Krueger, who was Switzerland’s national coach from 1998 to 2010, has just 48 games of experience as a head coach in the NHL. [...]
Forum Buzz: Stone vs Malkin, Ranking Cs in a MultiCat, Ghost, Pettersson, & Dahlin
Welcome to another edition of “Forum Buzz,” a column where I dissect posts from the DobberHockey Forums. Pretty much anything within the forums might be covered, other than trades (those usually will get their own separate write-ups on the site and are also covered in the next day’s Ramblings) and signings (those tend to [...]
Eastern Edge: Goals and Expected Goals from Atlantic Centres
Last week we talked about the value that will likely be had at the draft next season for the center position in the Metro. This week we have a few players that also will present a nice value option, but really there are a few more players that I personally would avoid next season. [...]
Wild West: Top Western Conference Fantasy Defensemen 2018-19
For part three of this series we are going to look at defensemen in the West. We will be using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. For the purposes of this series, the ranks are based on a 12 [...]
Top 10 fantasy-related stories of 2018-19
One fun thing about looking back on the past season is to see if there are any overall patterns that emerge from season to season that could be a tell of what to expect for next year. Sadly, the answer to that is a big fat no. It seems as if the top stories [...]
21 Fantasy Hockey Rambles
Every Sunday, we'll share 21 Fantasy Rambles – formerly 20 Fantasy Thoughts – from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. […]