Ramblings: Florida Advances; Hakstol Fired; Reviewing Columbus’s Season, Including Gaudreau, Fantilli, Voronkov, Jiřiček, and More – April 30
The finalists for the Vezina Trophy were announced on Monday. In no particular order, Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko, Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck, and Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky were all voted as the top-3 goalies this season. The winner [...]
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Top 10 Surprising Postseason Performances So Far
The pursuit of the Stanley Cup over the course of a six-to-eight-week onslaught of intense hockey action tends to reveal the best - and worst - of NHL players. Springtime puck can take an NHLer’s [...]
Wild West: Western Team Salary Cap Values
Not every NHL team gets good value for the salary that they give out. With a salary cap of $83.5 million for every team, some teams get their roster playing to a value of $90-100 [...]
Ramblings: Comeback Canucks; Nosediving Jets; Rangers Sweep Capitals (Apr 29)
Avalanche 5, Jets 1 (Colorado leads 3-1) A dominant performance on Sunday gave Colorado a commanding 3-1 lead in their first-round series against Winnipeg. The Avalanche were led by a hat trick from Valeri Nichushkin, who [...]
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Experts Panel: 2023-24 Playoff Round 1 Predictions
The puck is about to drop on the Stanley Cup Playoffs! As is the case every season, the panel is weighing in with predictions for each of the eight playoff series, the Stanley Cup finalists [...]
Analytics Advantage: The Eastern Conference Playoff Teams
Now that the regular season has ended, the entire Analytics Advantage style is going to be revamped for the playoffs. Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who took a moment of their time to [...]
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 [...]