Latest Moves: Brind’Amour Named Carolina Bench Boss, Waddell as GM
Carolina had some gaps to fill this offseason with Bill Peters heading to Calgary and Ron Francis being fired before the end of the regular season. New owner Tom Dundon filled those vacancies with former team captain and Stanley Cup champion Rod Brind’Amour as the head coach and Don Waddell as the general manager Brind’Amour [...]
Eastern Edge: Goal-Scoring from the Metro Division Pivots
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the new Frozen Tool changes over at Dobber – I suggest you do so -> (Frozen Pool: Sidney Crosby). Excellent stuff – really quick info on some advanced stats. You will be at a disadvantage next year if you’re not utilizing this information when making trade [...]
Top 10 fantasy-related stories for 2017-18
This past year was a season of extremes for fantasy hockey. It seems as if either everything was awesome or everything sucked, depending on your point of view. Scoring was up, but goaltending suffered. Youth is king, but older players are just as valuable. Tampa put together a season not seen in years, but everyone [...]
Wild West: Top Western Conference Left Wings 2017-18
This is the second of a multi-part series looking at the most valuable players at each position this year from the Western Conference (part one is here). Just as a refresher, we are using the Fantasy Hockey Geek ranking tool to get a ranking that combines all of a player’s stats for the searched [...]
Fantasy Hockey Podcast: Awesome Cowboy Will
Even as Elan and Brian are feeling the playoff high, they're already thinking ahead to what 2018-19 might look like on this this new episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast. After a couple more casual episodes, the guys get out their number shovels and dig into the data to see what's in store for the Sabres [...]
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". […]
Geek of the Week: William Karlsson’s Playoff Run Bodes Well for the Future
William Karlsson's Playoff Run Bodes Well for the Future […]
The Journey: Tampa Bay Farm Report
As if the Tampa Bay Lighting morphing into a perennial Stanley Cup favourite isn’t good enough, their AHL squad has mirrored their success building their own semblance of a powerhouse in Syracuse. Here are a few prospects down on the farm that have put together excellent regular seasons and have carried that over [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen – May 2018
Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in your points-only keeper league - May edition. April, May and June are my "fun months". These are when I stop including this season's immediate payback, and look ahead to next year and onward. But I do it without crunching the numbers. My Fantasy Guide is [...]