Capped: The Ones Paying for First-Round Exits
This week's Capped explores some big contracts that failed to produce in their first-round losses. **** Well that was an exciting first round of hockey! Unfortunately though, half of the teams are now booking tee times, and their general managers are wondering what went wrong. Though the picture may be clearer for some teams, [...]
Ramblings: Playoff Recap, Reinhart, Kucherov, Eulogies – April 27
Recapping the start of the second round, Sabres fantasy performances, and Nikita Kucherov **** St. Louis-Nashville Game One was the PK Subban show. With a goal and two assists, he led the Predators attack in taking the first game of their series against St. Louis by a score of 4-3. Vern Fiddler scored the game-winner [...]
Better Fantasy Own – Landeskog or Jenner (Battle of the Disappointments!)
Cage Match - which disappointing power forward is the better fantasy own: Gabriel Landeskog or Boone Jenner? Rick Roos digs deep Among the bigger fantasy disappointments for 2016-17 were Gabriel Landeskog (whose 33 points were barely half the 65 he posted just three seasons ago) and Boone Jenner (who managed only four more points [...]
Ramblings: The KEY for the Penguins; some injury notes; and where’s Joffrey Lupul? (Apr. 26)
Ramblings: The KEY for the Penguins; some injury notes; and where’s Joffrey Lupul? (Apr. 26) *** No Game 7s in the first round means no games for me to enjoy and comment on for the Wednesday Ramblings. I guess it makes for great practice for all the non-game nights that are forthcoming… I went a [...]
Fantasy Impact of Travis Green taking over Canucks Bench
Looking at the fantasy impact of Vancouver naming Travis Green head coach … […]
Dobber Hockey Experts Panel – NHL Playoffs 2017, Round 2
The Dobber Hockey panel makes their second-round selections for the 2017 Playoffs. **** We move onto the second round of the 2017 NHL playoffs, which means it's time for a fresh round of picks from the writers and editors that make up the Dobber Hockey panel. First, a quick refresher of how the first round [...]
Revisiting Preseason Breakouts and Busts
Looking back at how this season's breakout and bust candidates fared … […]
Ramblings: Looking back at Round 1, Looking ahead to Round 2 (April 25)
Looking back at Round 1 and ahead to Round 2, Tom Wilson, Andre Burakovsky, Pekka Rinne, Juuse Saros, Charlie McAvoy, rookie defensemen and more … […]
Wild West – Preseason Prediction Review
With the regular season behind us it’s a good time to look at our preseason predictions to see where we hit and where we missed. This week we’ll examine how several top-end rookies and breakout candidates we examined fared. Next week we’ll look at those we thought might rebound from a less-than-stellar 2015-16 as well [...]