The Journey: Under the Radar Signings
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 [...]
Frozen Pool Forensics: Dustin Byfuglien
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 [...]
ROUND 2 – DobberHockey Experts Panel – NHL Playoffs 2018
The DobberHockey panel makes their second-round selections for the 2018 Playoffs. […]
Capped: Future Contracts of First Round Exits
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 [...]
Eastern Edge: Expectations for Right Wingers in the Metro
With the Penguins and Lightning finding their way to the next round the first round hasn’t quite completed yet. How about the performance of Jake Guentzel and Sean Couturier on Sunday? I covered Guentzel and the blockage on the top power play that limits him to his 5v5 scoring previously, and eventually we’ll swing around [...]
Top 100 Keeper League Goaltenders – April 2018
Here are the top goaltenders to own in your fantasy hockey keeper leagues, April edition. Goalies within a tier I consider equal. One is as good as another, though one may go on a two-month hot streak while another has a horrible three or four months (i.e. I need to see a season-and-a-half of [...]
Fantasy Impact: Calgary Flames Hire Bill Peters as New Head Coach
Fantasy Impact: The Calgary Flames have hired former Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters to take the reins of their team on the heels of missing the playoffs for the seventh time in the last nine years. Peters had resigned from the 'Canes just a few days ago, is one of the rare coaches to leave [...]
Wild West: First Round Predictions Review
With the first round in the books I thought it was appropriate to check in on the predictions made in the earlier columns. First up we have the Sneaky Value adds that were depth or under-the-radar considerations once the top players for each team were off the board. The idea being that these [...]
Top 10 next $10-million men
For those of us in cap leagues, the season never truly ends. We’re always trying to keep an eye on the next big contract and how it might impact our team. It seems as if the $10-million mark will now be the standard for big-money contracts. This past season, only three players had $10-million [...]