20 Fantasy Hockey Thoughts
Every Sunday until the start of the 2018-19 regular season, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings". […]
The Journey: Mid and Late Round Options
Aidan Dudas of the Owen Sound Attack While all the focus in fantasy hockey is usually squarely on first [...]
Frozen Pool Forensics: Bounce Back Candidates – Part 2
In continuation of last week’s piece covering players with potential for bounce back campaigns in 2018-19, let’s look at another six players across the league who I feel stand a great chance to reward those who invest in coming drafts. Jakob Silfverberg Despite only falling nine points short of 2016-17’s 49-point campaign, Jakob [...]
Fantasy Take: Anthony Duclair Signs in Columbus
Though they haven’t made the big splash that other teams have this off season, Columbus is doing a good job of solidifying their forward depth. First it was Riley Nash, and then Thursday afternoon came the signing of free agent winger Anthony Duclair. It’s a one-year deal for $650K as reported by Aaron Portzline [...]
Capped: Reviewing the Free Agent Frenzy
This week's Capped recaps everything you didn’t know you needed to know about free-agent frenzy. **** As of now, more money has been spent on new contracts in the week since July first than you could spend in a lifetime. This is before Erik Karlsson gets traded and then signs an eight-year deal with [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – July 2018
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league - July edition. This month I'm still manually tweaking. The August edition will be fully audited with proper short-term projections entered into my template, proper lineups put in, etc. For this edition, I added in the best drafted players from [...]
Cage Match Tournament 2018 – Breakout Players (Week 1)
This summer marks the return of Cage Match Tournaments focusing on breakout players. I figured with the rise in league-wide scoring, the Tournaments should be about picking the next group of players to make leaps into higher scoring echelons. To cover all the angles for your leagues, I’ll be doing tiers of forward breakout [...]
Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – July 2018
Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in your points-only keeper league - July edition. This month I'm still manually tweaking. The August edition will be fully audited with proper short-term projections entered into my template, proper lineups put in, etc. For this edition, I added in the best drafted players from last [...]
Fantasy Impact: Hurricanes Sign De Haan to four-year deal
The Carolina Hurricanes have signed defenseman Calvin de Haan to a four-year contract worth $18.2 million. The Hurricanes get: probably the best two-way defenseman on the free agent market, but also the most injury prone. Were it not for said injuries, we could be talking about a completely different de Haan right now as [...]