The Journey: U20WJC Top Players Who Helped or Hurt Their Stock Most
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track how prospect development curves translate into real fantasy relevance. The World Junior Championship is often remembered for its headline names and highlight plays, but its real evaluative [...]
Saturday Picks: McDavid & Matthews Cleared For Takeoff
With all 32 NHL clubs officially past the halfway point of the 2025-26 campaign and the postseason rapidly approaching, competition in the league is about to level up. Usually, it would also be appropriate to [...]
Keeping Karlsson: The Life D’Astous
Elan and Brian visit a cluster of NHL creases, highlight hot and cold power play units, and offer several sell-high opportunities around the league.
Ramblings: Bedard Returns, Sourdif Scores Again, Reimer Signs PTO with Ottawa (Jan 10)
Dobber’s 2026 Midseason Guide is now available! It is a downloadable PDF and Excel spreadsheet built to help you turn your fantasy hockey season around with second‑half projections, advanced‑stat insights, prospect evaluations, and strategic schedule [...]
Analytics Advantage: Doan’s Broad Fantasy Appeal; Buium’s Role Reliance; Coleman’s Stability, and More
This week’s group is built around players whose fantasy value is being driven by real, repeatable usage rather than short-term scoring spikes. Some are benefiting from expanded power-play roles, others from stable top-six minutes, and [...]
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Frozen Tool Forensics: Breakout Threshold Roundup
Back in August we spent some time digging into players that might have been positioned to break out based on their 2022-23 seasons. Now that NHL action is essentially wrapped (writing this on Thursday, April [...]
Ramblings: Playoff Series Picks; Debuts for Lambert and Gauthier; Buffalo’s Coaching Change & More (Apr 19)
As an Eastern time zone dweller, the playoff seeding in the West being decided by the last two games of the season which are 10pm and 10:30pm starts is not ideal. I wanted to go [...]
Ramblings: Updates on Dobson and Hamilton; Defence Targets for Playoff Leagues
Health in the postseason is a very big deal to the success of most teams, and those on the fringe especially. That is why it has been concerning that New York Islanders defenceman Noah Dobson [...]
Free NHL Playoff Box Pools – 2024
Here is Dobber's annual printable box pool template for you and your family, friends, and/or co-workers to set up your own playoff pool. The rules on how to use are simple: Download the Excel spreadsheet [...]
Fantasy Hockey Poll: Most Underrated Players in Fantasy
This month we go from one end of the spectrum, namely last month’s poll asking you to choose the five most overrated players in fantasy, to the other, where your task here is to land [...]
Ramblings: Oshie Finalizes the Playoff Field; Playoff Pool Thoughts; Slafkovsky’s Slick Second-Half & Many NHL Debuts (Apr 17)
After spending yesterday afternoon finalizing a car deal and driving it off the lot, I am reminded how similar car shopping is to fantasy sports. Between the research, the bargaining, and making sure that all [...]
DobberHockey Podcasts
Keeping Karlsson: The Life D’Astous
Elan and Brian visit a cluster of NHL creases, highlight hot and cold power play units, and offer several sell-high opportunities around the league.
Fantasy Hockey Life: New York Islanders and Chicago Blackhawks Prospects
Today, Victor and Jesse talk prospects from the Islanders and Blackhawks. Discussed are: Dmitri Gamzin, Kashawn Aitcheson, Victor Eklund, Cole Eiserman, Kamil Bednarik, Quinn Finley, Anton Frondell, Roman Kantserov, Vaclav Nestrasil, Marek Vanacker, Sascha Boisvert, and Nathan Béhm. Have a listen! Our show is part of the Dobber Podcast Network and sponsored by Fantrax.com. Email […]
Keeping Karlsson: Matchup Maximizer 2026/27 Week 7
Elan takes a look at the schedule for the upcoming weeks of NHL action and recommends players with good schedules that you should consider streaming in to win your head to head matchups.
Keeping Karlsson: Short Shifts – Big Fantasy News
Elan covers all the big fantasy news since last Sunday’s mega-show in a tight sub-30 minute Short Shift.
Keeping Karlsson: Farabee Sharp
Elan and Brian talk through unhappy players (and the players they’ll eventually leave behind), Calgary’s surprising success, top tier power-play performances, sell high opportunities and buy-low mirages.