The Edmonton Oilers announced on Tuesday afternoon that they agreed to terms with 29-year old Finnish goaltender Mikko Koskinen for a one-year contract. The second-round pick of the Islanders back in 2009 just completed his fifth season in the KHL and is now turning his eyes back to the NHL. Obviously, this isn’t official until [...]
I’m really excited about the following analysis and I hope you are too. Like always please follow me on twitter @DH_jcameronmetz. The data source for this analysis comes from Natural Stat Trick. For the last three years I’ve routinely drafted Oliver Ekman-Larsson. My rankings are typically created by normalizing the data using a standard score [...]
With the playoffs well underway, we will shift gears for a few weeks and take a look at the most valuable players in the west at their position this year. Using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool, we are able to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched categories. [...]
There’s a theory that goes around hockey circles that a player will see a significant increase in production in their fourth NHL season. There’s some credence to that. Years ago, someone here at Dobber wrote that almost a quarter of forwards entering their fourth season saw their production increase by about 25 per cent. [...]
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". […]
April is signing season for NHL teams as prospects wrap up their seasons and GM’s are eager to get some shiny new toys in the system. And while more high profile players like Casey Mittelstadt and Henrik Borgstrom get most of the pub, here are a few late round pick signings that deserve your [...]
Greatest trade in some time; That’s what I’ll have to say about my acquisition of Dustin Byfuglien in late January whilst his value was at its lowest. At the tail end of his buy low window, I shipped off Bo Horvat (it’s a face-off league) and Radko Gudas for the Manitoba policeman. Boy did it [...]
The DobberHockey panel makes their second-round selections for the 2018 Playoffs. […]
What a first round that was. Lots of great hockey, shots, saves, hits, storylines, the past two weeks have had it all. The best part, is that we still have another three rounds to go! On the flip side, there were eight teams eliminated by the end of the first round, so we’re going to [...]
