Hockey Rambling

Does anyone remember the three-way trade a few years ago between Nashville, Vegas, and Philadelphia, where former second and sixth overall picks were moved, along with a top pair defenceman on an eight-year deal and another six-foot-five right shot defenceman?  Well, Cody Glass is the last one of them remaining in the NHL, and yesterday [...]

Welcome everyone to Bubble Keeper Week here at Dobber Hockey! Every offseason, we like to take a week to focus solely on the keepers at the end of the roster. They are the decisions that can drive any fantasy hockey owner up the wall because we know there’s a chance that we are letting go [...]

It’s Bubble Keeper Week here at DobberHockey! Across the website, our authors will be discussing players that you may be on the fence about keeping in your fantasy league. The players involved in such decisions will obviously vary based on the depth of your league and how many keepers each team gets. Regardless, the goal [...]

Bubble Keeper Week starts today! In case you’re not familiar with it, our writers will share players that are on their bubble to be kept on their various keeper teams. Rules in each league will vary, but many keeper leagues operate on either a) keeping a fixed number of players, or b) keeping as many [...]

The DobberHockey Fantasy Guide is now available for download! It’s the same guide that you’ve come to know and love every year, which includes player projections for scoring and peripheral categories in PDF form by team and by Excel list. Included are sleepers, draft review, Calder nominees, stock drops, goalies, and much more. In addition, [...]

In yesterday’s Ramblings, I went over my first fantasy draft of the season. It was a best ball draft over at Underdog Fantasy and it was part of their Best Puck Classic. The parameters are as follows: Drafts are 12-team leagues, but it is a contest with 15 000 entries. There are 18 regular season [...]

The nice thing about fantasy sports is the wide range of options for players. There are traditional one-year leagues, there are keeper and dynasty formats, there is daily fantasy like DraftKings and FanDuel, there are box pools and guillotine leagues, and others I’m overlooking. One of the formats I like to play is best ball. [...]

Oliver Kylington was on the free agent market longer than he should have been considering that a $1.05 million AAV was all it took to get him signed. In Colorado there is a log-jam of defencemen, with Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Josh Manson, and Samuel Girard taking up the top-four spots, and Kylington joining a [...]

The 2024-25 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide has been released! We like to get it out earlier than other publications so that it gives fantasy hockey fanatics a couple of months to prepare for the season at their leisure, but there is another by-product, too. With it being online-only, it gets constantly updated through to the [...]

The DobberHockey Fantasy Guide is now available for download! In it you’ll find player projections, sleeper picks, Calder nominees, analysis of goalie hierarchies, and so much more! Pick up your copy to support the site and bring yourself one step closer to a fantasy championship! ~ During an NHL season, we’re able to pay close attention to [...]