Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Puneet Sharma, and Dobber ___ 1. I was down with a virus last week, so stick taps to Dobber for pinch hitting with his thoughts on [...]
The Hurricanes are the first team to advance to the second round, while the Penguins prevented the Flyers from joining them there – at least for today. Meanwhile, the Stars and Wild series is tightly contested as we expected. Carolina 4, Ottawa 2 (Hurricanes win series 4-0) Sebastian Aho scored two goals in the third [...]
Following Part 1, which highlighted a group of high-impact NCAA performers trending upward late in the season, this continuation shifts the focus to another wave of prospects who have also elevated their play down the stretch. While the first group featured several headline names and offensive drivers, this group brings a broader mix of skill [...]
The home teams won all three of Friday’s Game 3s, meaning that underdogs are now in the driver’s seat for all three of these series. Montreal 3, Tampa Bay 2 (Canadiens lead series 2-1) Lane Hutson scored on an absolute bomb early in overtime to give the Canadiens a 3-2 win in Game 3 and [...]
The playoffs are still young, so the trick is separating what matters from what is just early-series noise. Two-game samples are not trends. Three games are not destiny. But usage moves, special teams gaps, goalie baselines, and shot volume can already tell us why a series is tilting one way. No shot maps here. The [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be looking back over regular season data and find out which players provided the most, and [...]
Before Buffalo took on Boston Thursday night, we got injury news as Matthew Fairburn reported that Josh Norris would not be playing in Game 3 and is considered day-to-day. Norris’ injury history needs no repeating here, so let’s just hope this is truly a day-to-day thing, and not one of those ‘day-to-day in the playoffs [...]
In some positive injury news outside of the NHL playoffs, the Winnipeg Jets assigned defenceman Elias Salomonsson to the AHL. Salomonsson had suffered a concussion against the Dallas Stars earlier this month and missed the final seven games of the regular season. He won’t be immediately inserted into the playoff lineup but that this decision [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! Welcome back to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday and Sunday I will be taking you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. At the [...]
I was thrilled at the response to last month’s poll where I asked you to vote for the five most overrated skaters in fantasy. This month, not surprisingly, it’s a 180, as we shift our focus to those who are most underrated in fantasy. It was much more difficult to choose 20 skaters who I [...]
