Happy New Year! This week, we are going to look at players in the Western Conference who are seeing top-six (forwards) or top-four (defenders) minutes, evaluating who might see that opportunity end sooner rather than later. The flip side to these players having their ice time reduced is that someone will need to replace them. [...]
Any time the calendar flips over to a new year, it's always fun to look back at some of the best fantasy performances from the previous year. Maybe the craziest thing about 2023 is that there weren't many awesome fantasy performances compared to 2022. There wasn't a Tage Thompson-type game, where he scored four goals [...]
In both life and fantasy hockey, perspectives shape information. The way you look at something influences what you take away from it, and how you feel about it. Usually, when we analyze a player’s production, we look at performance in a season – from October to April. However, shifting our lens gives us new perspective [...]
Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to examine one key stat of penalty minutes. I’m going to review the top PIM leaders so far and where these PIM are coming from. I’ll explain which types of PIM are best and players to target for each [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Brennan Des and Dobber — The 2024 Midseason Guide will be available on January 12, 2024. Look for second-half projections, sleepers, advanced stats, historical trends and [...]
Saturday’s loss to the Jets was a costly one for the Wild, as both Kirill Kaprizov and Filip Gustavsson left the game with injuries. Kaprizov was cross-checked to the back twice, while Gustavsson left with a lower-body injury. After a poor start, Gustavsson was finding his game under new coach John Hynes with an 8-2 [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** In World Juniors news, Sweden and Slovakia are the two teams to beat at the moment, with the powerhouse United States squad only a hair behind after needing overtime to [...]
Ilya Samsonov shut out the Nashville Predators on December 9. Why does this make the news today? Because there’s at least a shred of evidence that he is an NHL-caliber goalie. However, since that effort he’s been caught in a nightmare - both for himself and for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Samsonov, in his last [...]
A busy Friday evening of NHL action leaves us with a relatively compact board of betting options for our favorite day of the week. That also means a handful of teams will be on the second half of back-to-backs, resulting in a number of different goaltending matchups that will obviously impact odds and lines. Make [...]
Nico Daws’ first game since the 2021-22 season was a success. Daws made 25 saves in the Devils’ 6-2 win over Ottawa. Daws was recalled earlier this week when Akira Schmid was sent to the AHL. Although Vitek Vanecek has played a little better recently, Daws could easily push him for starts in Jersey with [...]
