The Wild West

There have been some injuries, covid issues and some unexpected players emerge early in this 56-game season that have created opportunities for players and changed some depth charts. We will go through each team in the West (excepting the Dallas Stars for now) and briefly see what players are in what roles and how they [...]

With only a few days left until the start of the 56-game 2021 NHL season, some rosters have been trimmed down in preparation whereas additionally, some Covid positive tests and/or exposures are affecting some NHL dressing rooms. There were 66 players put on waivers Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with more expected on Monday and Tuesday. [...]

Happy New Year and welcome to 2021! I hope everyone is enjoying junior hockey and are getting ready for January 13th. One of the many great things about writing a weekly column is that I can look back and see how right or wrong I was about certain things. Take my predictions for last year’s [...]

In part two of our look at the World Juniors (WJC) revisited for core three players, we will focus on San Jose, St. Louis, Vancouver, Vegas and Winnipeg. Pick up Dobber's 15th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide - updated today - here as an immediate download! San Jose Erik Karlsson (Sweden) – Surprisingly Karlsson only played [...]

I had written two articles (here and here) in March 2020 looking at the players that I considered the core three for each of the Western teams. I thought it would be interesting to look back at each of these players and see how they did during the World Junior Championships or if they even [...]

This week we will look at San Jose, St. Louis, and Vancouver, Vegas and Winnipeg and look at the players that have an NMC, NTC or M-NTC and see how this might influence each team moving forward. Another important aspect to the NMC is that the teams need to protect these players in the upcoming [...]

This week we will look at Dallas, Edmonton, Los Angeles, Minnesota and Nashville and look at the players that have an NMC, NTC or M-NTC and see how this might influence each team moving forward. Dallas Tyler Seguin – Has an NMC with seven years remaining at $9.85 million AAV. If Seguin can get back [...]

There have been a few GMs that have given out no-movement clauses (NMC), no-trade clauses (NTC) or modified no-trade clauses (M-NTC) like candy over the past two decades. An NMC protects the player from being traded or sent to the minors while the clause in effect, while an NTC protects a player from being traded [...]

I’m never sure when to unload an ageing player on my roster and in looking over the past five seasons, skaters over the age of 30 are still pretty well represented in the scoring leaders of the NHL but it is sporadic because of the risk of injury and decline in ability increase with age. [...]

Focusing on Keeper pools, one of the most important factors to consider is stocking your roster with players that are on the rise and not on their way down. If your team is competing for the league title, you should limit the number of players that you will need to be rid of sooner than [...]