Fantasy Take: Sprong Has Sprung in Vancouver
The Vancouver Canucks have signed winger Daniel Sprong to a one-year contract worth $975,000. At age 27, Sprong already fits the definition of a journeyman, as the Canucks will be his sixth NHL team. Sprong [...]
The Journey: Players Who Can Benefit From Better Deployment
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** This week, we’re diving into players who have shown they can thrive [...]
Keeping Karlsson: Leaving Letang
Elan and Brian find a couple volume and potential starters showing up midseason, consider whether Jake Walman really is on the league’s longest hot streak, and encourage you to pause the pod for a Columbus 1C stepping onto one of the NHL’s best lines.
Ramblings: Veleno Signs, Star Player With Contracts Expiring Next Summer (Jul 20)
Light news day today, as it has been since after July 1. According to Elliotte Friedman, the Red Wings and Joe Veleno have settled, agreeing on a two-year contract worth $2.275 million per season. In [...]
Analytics Advantage: Individual Points Percentage and Hyman, Miller, and Matheson
Welcome back to another week of Analytics Advantage! This week we are going to be focusing on analyzing changes in Individual Points Percentage (IPP) for NHL players. We'll highlight some players who had impressive 23/24 [...]
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Ramblings: DeBrincat Traded; Zadina to San Jose; Rises (or Declines) in Fantasy Categories; Multi-Cat Values – July 11
The anticipated trade of Alex DeBrincat finally materialized over the weekend as he was sent from Ottawa to Detroit in exchange for a first- and a fourth-round pick, Dominik Kubalik, and prospect defenceman Donovan Sobrango. [...]
Fantasy Impact: San Jose Signs Zadina
The San Jose Sharks have signed newly-minted UFA winger Filip Zadina to a one-year contract worth $1.1M. The Sharks get: an intriguing, high-upside sniper who goes through bouts of injury and inconsistency. The 23-year-old was [...]
Wild West: Core Four – Part One of Four
This week we will begin our look at the Core Four of every NHL team with myself in the Western Conference and Brennan Des covering the Eastern Conference with the Eastern Edge column. I’ve done [...]
Top 10 Potential Fourth-Year Breakouts for 2023-24
A few years ago, a Dobber reader named Striker brought forward the idea that the best system to determine a player's breakout threshold is to look at games played for specific-sized players. You can get [...]
Ramblings: Wolf, Kochetkov, Levi, a New LOD Line, Carolina Line Combos and an In-Season Tourney? (July 10)
The 18th annual Fantasy Guide will be released on Friday, July 28. That’s right – less than three weeks. I’ve already analyzed, written and projected five teams. * So Twitter did a thing last week. [...]
Fantasy Take: DeBrincat Traded to Detroit
The Detroit Red Wings have acquired forward Alex DeBrincat from the Ottawa Senators for forward Dominik Kubalik, defense prospect Donovan Sebrango, a conditional first-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and a fourth-round pick in [...]
DobberHockey Podcasts
Keeping Karlsson: Leaving Letang
Elan and Brian find a couple volume and potential starters showing up midseason, consider whether Jake Walman really is on the league’s longest hot streak, and encourage you to pause the pod for a Columbus 1C stepping onto one of the NHL’s best lines.
Fantasy Hockey Life: Mitch Brown on the WJC
Prospect maven Mitch Brown of Elite Prospects joins the show to break down performances from the recently concluded World Juniors tournament. Hear Jesse and Victor ask about Sam Dickinson, Berkly Catton, Bradley Nadeau, Eduard Sale, Jakub Stancl, Matej Mastalirsky, Adam Jecho, Danny Nelson, Cole Hutson, Brodie Ziemer, Kasper Haltunen, Victor Eklund, and Tom Willander. Have […]
Keeping Karlsson: Matchup Maximizer Week 15
Elan looks at the schedule for the upcoming week of NHL action and recommends some players with good schedules that you should consider streaming in to win your head to head matchups.
Keeping Karlsson Short Shifts – Thanks for Vejmelkmories
Elizabeth and Lewis reunite to bring you all the latest fantasy news and strategy, such as how our siblings would fare if called on to fill our roles like Owen Sillinger did for bro Cole. Then it’s onto news including coverage of the postponed CGY/LAK game and defensive injuries piling up in MIN and putting some strain on Gustavsson’s performance. Injuries and outjuries include a pair of goalies returning to their teams in Ingram and Shesterkin, as well as how Monahan’s wrist injury opens the door for big minutes for Fantilli. Finally, the pair touch on Voronkov and PLD’s hot streaks, and discuss John Carlson’s rollercoaster in light of Chychrun’s production.
Keeping Karlsson: Tuch Hunch
On this edition of the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast mega-show, Elan and Brian tour every team, ranking a slate of the least bad goalies, noticing the wind in some Red Wings’ and Stars’ sails, dangling snoozer status above a pair of commonly rostered power-play quarterbacks, and rushing or strolling, accordingly, to some skaters on the up and up.