Frozen Tools Forensics: Low-Profile Rookies
Some rookies this season finished more strongly than expected and are worth keeping an eye on for next season. We’ve highlighted a few that perhaps haven’t yet caught most people’s attention. Anthony Cirelli – Tampa Bay Lightning Cirelli played 18 regular season games with Tampa Bay in 2017-2018 and scored five goals [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – April 2019
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues - April edition! I noted this Thursday in the full Top 300 list: As with every year for the last 17 years, my April, May and June adjustments are casual. The July and August editions are my "audit" rankings because, [...]
Capped: Acquiring Team-Friendly Contracts
Playoffs are here, and it is the best time of year. Three or four games a day, and all great hockey. It’s too bad that the NHL hasn’t figured out that the best way to schedule a Saturday is one game each at noon, 3pm, 7pm, and 10pm (EST). Alas, we can’t have everything. [...]
Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – April 2019
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper leagues - April edition! As with every year for the last 17 years, my April, May and June adjustments are casual. The July and August editions are my "audit" rankings because, thanks to the Fantasy Guide, every detail of every player within [...]
Injury Ward: First Round Playoff Edition
The Stanley Cup Playoffs have arrived! Will your favourite team have a healthy lineup as they begin their quest for Lord Stanley’s Mug? Find out in this week’s Injury Ward! Follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza for the latest injury updates during the playoffs. Boston Bruins Kevan Miller – Will miss the beginning of [...]
Roos Lets Loose: Forum Buzzing on Patrick, Girard, and More
Welcome to another edition of “Forum Buzz,” a column where I dissect popular recent 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 [...]
Lining Up: Playoff Edition
With the Stanley Cup Playoffs just hours away, you’re probably getting ready to assemble the ultimate roster for your playoff pool. Luckily for you, I’ve done a ‘quick’ lineup review for every one of this year’s playoff teams. You can find last week’s review of the top-eight qualifying teams over here. This week we [...]
Eastern Edge: Left Wingers in the Atlantic and their Expected Goals
Today marks year one for me writing at Dobber Hockey – and it also marks the first week of the offseason for draft preparation. There is a lot to go through this summer: scoring increase, stability in the goal crease, advanced stat analysis, and ADPs. Since we are so fresh from the end of [...]
