Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. This week, I wanted to highlight the wave of rookies playing their first-ever NHL games and how well they’ve been able to adjust to the league’s high tempo and pressure. Some [...]
Can you feel it? Maybe you can even smell it? It’s the scent all degenerate gamblers and hockey fans clamor for: Super Saturday in the NHL. That’s right, people, Saturday Picks are back at DobberHockey and to say that I’m fired up for my fourth season rocking with y’all on the picks front would be [...]
It’s back! The NHL season has started and we are set for what *looks* to be a “normal” season. Don’t get me wrong, I was glad to have hockey back in my life earlier this year when the league had it’s 2020-2021 season but from a fantasy perspective, the repetitiveness of it all got to [...]
If there’s a time of year where fantasy team managers are the most hyper-focused, this is the one. I see a lot of questions like the following: “What do you think of my team?” My stock answer: It looks great, but you’ll probably want to make waiver-wire moves throughout the season. No fantasy team is [...]
The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Evgenii Dadonov, RW/LW, Vegas Golden Knights (Available in 37.5% of ESPN leagues, 40% Fantrax leagues) - So let’s start with Florida Evgenii. He was once a 20-goal scorer in this league and a sneaky cheap DFS player from time to time in [...]
League drafts are now in the books, so where do players rank now? These rankings take into account average draft positions (ADPs) as well as actual values. You could use these rankings to compare one player to another as you evaluate your roster, make start/sit decisions, or even consider trade offers. We’re also factoring in [...]
Alex Ovechkin is already going to go down in history as one of the best goal scorers of all time. The only question is just where exactly on that list does he sit? After his two-goal premier and moving into fifth place all time, it seemed like time to take a look at where he [...]
The last of the big-name RFAs has officially signed on the dotted line. Brady Tkachuk has agreed to a seven-year contract worth $57.5 million, which means Senators fans and fantasy managers won’t be subjected to a lengthy holdout. The signing should also dispel rumors that he only wanted a bridge deal because he doesn’t want [...]
The season is upon us. With it comes part four of the ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ series. You can find the first three parts here: Part I, Part II, Part III. This week we’ll cover the New York Islanders to the Seattle Kraken with perhaps another surprise selection or two. Again, I intentionally exclude superstars on [...]
Hendrix Lapierre was one of the big stories of the preseason. While the injury to Nicklas Backstrom likely helped matters, Lapierre went into camp basically as an extra and played his way onto the team. Not a lot of rookies do that in the NHL, maybe a handful every year. He even had to beat [...]
