Ramblings: Wolf Called Up; Updates on Laine, Shesterkin, Pesce, and Addison; Bedard Piles on Points – November 10
Something that had been a bit confounding – maybe a lot confounding – about the Calgary Flames is their utter refusal to even bother giving minor league goalie Dustin Wolf a shot at the NHL [...]
Analytics Advantage: Comparing Expected Goal Scoring with High-, Medium-, and Low-Danger Scoring
In the realm of fantasy hockey, where every point can be the difference between triumph and mediocrity, a deeper dive into advanced statistics becomes not just a strategy, but a necessity. This season, we're peeling [...]
Capped: Impact of Current Contracts from Campbell, Demko, and Jarry
Hello and welcome back my Salary Cap-friendlies! We haven’t really touched on goaltenders too much in Capped and there’s sort of a reason for that. Outside of Sergei Bobrovsky they mostly earn salaries and off [...]
Ramblings: Addison/Bogosian Traded; Updates on Shesterkin, Duchene, and Cozens; Changes in Shot Ratios – November 9
The Minnesota Wild made some adjustments to their blueline on Wednesday by trading Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks, then turning around and getting Zach Bogosian from Tampa Bay. I wrote up a bit [...]
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Fantasy Hockey Poll: First-Time Point-Per-Game Scorers
Last season 44 skaters produced at a point per game pace while appearing in at least half of their team’s games. Of them, 13 hit that threshold for the first time in their careers. If [...]
Ramblings: Pre-Season Checklist – Research, Management & Preparation (Sept 28)
If you’re reading this then odds are that you’re in at least one fantasy hockey league, and you’re now really ramping up for the NHL season. What that means differs from person to person. Maybe [...]
Eastern Edge: Forward Fantasy Tiers, From Matthews to Suter
This week, Grant Campbell and I organized the league’s forwards into tiers based on projected fantasy value this season. Grant covers the Western Conference here at DobberHockey, and you can check out his forward tiers [...]
Ramblings: Draft Values For Jarvis, Toffoli, Matheson, Bjorkstrand, and More; Updates on Boeser, Mangiapane and Khudobin – September 27
Last week, my Ramblings discussed my projections that I have started cobbling together. My first run of projections covered overall value in a multi-cat league that includes goals, assists, power-play points, shots, blocks, and hits. [...]
Wild West: Forward Tiers from McDavid to Eberle
Now that we have tiered the goalies and defensemen for the West and East, it is time to move on to the forwards. I will start with the Western Conference below. There are a lot [...]
Cap League Goalie Rankings – September 2022
There is usually less change with the goalies than the skaters, but when there is a change the leaps forwards or backwards are much bigger. The movement can be accounted for with new contracts (Ilya [...]