Ramblings: DeBrincat Traded; Zadina to San Jose; Rises (or Declines) in Fantasy Categories; Multi-Cat Values – July 11
The anticipated trade of Alex DeBrincat finally materialized over the weekend as he was sent from Ottawa to Detroit in exchange for a first- and a fourth-round pick, Dominik Kubalik, and prospect defenceman Donovan Sobrango. [...]
Fantasy Impact: San Jose Signs Zadina
The San Jose Sharks have signed newly-minted UFA winger Filip Zadina to a one-year contract worth $1.1M. The Sharks get: an intriguing, high-upside sniper who goes through bouts of injury and inconsistency. The 23-year-old was [...]
Wild West: Core Four – Part One of Four
This week we will begin our look at the Core Four of every NHL team with myself in the Western Conference and Brennan Des covering the Eastern Conference with the Eastern Edge column. I’ve done [...]
Top 10 Potential Fourth-Year Breakouts for 2023-24
A few years ago, a Dobber reader named Striker brought forward the idea that the best system to determine a player's breakout threshold is to look at games played for specific-sized players. You can get [...]
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Looking Ahead: April 9 – April 21
All fantasy owners need help in the short term AND the long term. The Looking Ahead feature identifies one player to plug into lineups in the short term, a second to invest in for the [...]
Frozen Tools Forensics: Shooting percentages and expected scoring rates
This week we are going to take a bit of a long and meandering trip. I write this intro after I went down this rabbit hole, and it all starts with the tools available on [...]
Ramblings: Stars updates; Connolly traded; Kreider’s season; Brady’s value – April 9
If it wasn’t the COVID pause that has really stalled out their season, it could be the injuries that have started to pile up for the Stars that may have done them in. There is [...]
Fantasy Take: Connolly, Stillman, Borgstrom traded to Chicago
The Florida Panthers have started shedding some salary, and it’s begun with Brett Connolly. The former 20-goal scorer had fallen out of favour with the Panthers and was infrequently in the lineup. He has been [...]
Capped: RFAs to watch like Kaprizov, Batherson, Reinhart, and more
As I looked at what to write for this week, I realized the list of Restricted Free Agents this year is really long. I figured it worth while to spend this week going over the [...]
Ramblings: Updates on Andersen, Nyquist; Palmieri/Zajac; Gallagher, Wheeler, and Jenner out – April 8
Rick Bowness was cleared to return to the team following a false-positive COVID test. This seemed like a likely case of a false positive as it became public that he and some members of the [...]