The Dobotomy

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Vancouver Canucks For the last 17 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 18th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer…er, winter. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice [...]

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Vegas Golden Knights For the last 17 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 18th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer…er, winter. This is not a review of the likely performance on the [...]

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Washington Capitals For the last 17 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 18th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer…er, winter. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice [...]

Dobber's offseason fantasy hockey grades – Winnipeg Jets For the last 17 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. This year - let's work backwards, beginning with Winnipeg. The 18th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer…er, winter. This is not [...]

Free hockey pool player boxes, for those who would like to run simple pools at the office... Every year in April (for the NHL playoffs) and to kick off September (for the regular season) I group players into comparable boxes and post them online for people to enjoy for free. Whether it's for the office [...]

After some doubt about whether it was ever going to happen, the 2019-20 Stanley Cup playoffs are almost complete. For either the Tampa Bay Lightning or the Dallas Stars, life in the bubble for two months will all be worth it. Tampa’s win over the Islanders was expected, as 12 of 15 DobberHockey writers picked [...]

In just over a month, 20 teams have been eliminated from the return to play, with just four teams left in the chase for Lord Stanley’s mug. There aren’t as many predictions to make going forward, but we are back to make them anyway. Updating the conference semifinal results, the panel majority chose three of [...]

Remember when many of us thought that the play-in round teams were at an advantage from already playing more important games than the round-robin teams? Well, it turns out that only two play-in teams (Vancouver, NY Islanders) are still remaining in the playoffs. The first round of the “actual” playoffs didn’t see the widespread number [...]

After a four-month layoff, the play-in round and round-robin turned out to be as unpredictable as they could have been. The panel as a whole took it on the chin as far as majority rankings went, only choosing two of the eight play-in series (NY Islanders over Florida, Vancouver over Minnesota) correctly. Three series in [...]

The Dobber Hockey writers continue to make predictions with their picks for the Western Conference play-in series. You can also view their Eastern Conference picks here. Just like in the East, you’ll see each writer’s predicted winner, along with the number of games that it will take for that team to win. Remember, the play-in [...]