With fantasy leagues and the regular season wrapped up as of last Sunday, it seems to be the right time to take a quick look back over the season and try to learn a few things. Every year we realize we undervalued or overvalued certain players, teams or positions. That will happen again, as long [...]
I’m sure much of the hockey world was looking forward to the Flyers/Penguins series. Anyone following hockey for the last 10 years or so would vividly remember the 2012 series which featured goals and fights to the heart’s content. Game 1 wasn’t so much a playoff game as it was a public execution. Pittsburgh skated [...]
Ramblings: What Now For Holtby and Schneider, Playoff Sleepers, plus more… […]
Hey folks, we're back for another year of calling the winners for each round of the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs. Each year, the members of the DobberHockey Panel (made up of DH writers) have their ups and downs with making calls on each series. As a group, though, the Panel’s consensus picks are pretty good. [...]
After each round these playoffs I’ll recap the biggest surprises for players from the East. It will be a nice way to break up the deep dive into specific stats. The way players perform in the playoffs often impacts next year’s draft boards, so I’ll make sure we sanity check all the hype that will [...]
This week we take a look at how injuries will affect the Western Conference playoff picture. Stay tuned for tomorrow’s Eastern Conference update! Anaheim Ducks Cam Fowler – The Ducks’ defenseman suffered a shoulder injury last Sunday and was expected to miss two to six weeks. We’re about a week into that timetable [...]
One report early on Monday morning had Ilya Kovalchuk signing with the New York Rangers for anywhere around two or three years. He has expressly made his desire to return to the NHL previously known so it’s a matter of where he lands, not if he leaves the KHL. A lot of people are going [...]
Chris Kane makes his DobberHockey Wild West debut... With the regular season wrapping up this weekend our thoughts of course turn to the playoffs. Many of us, who were less fortunate in our individual leagues (hats off to my opponent for the league title, you had a great team) are looking for a little fantasy [...]
