Ramblings: Players to Avoid In Early Drafts, Including Point, Hughes, Vasilevskiy, and More – August 23
The Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins swapped prospects Rutger McGroarty and Brayden Yager yesterday. I wrote up my thoughts on the trade here. In yesterday’s Ramblings, I went over some players whose ADPs I think [...]
Fantasy Take: Jets and Penguins Swap Rutger McGroarty and Brayden Yager
It isn’t often we see two very recent mid-first round picks traded for each other, but here we are. It has been no secret that Rutger McGroarty was likely not going to be a Winnipeg [...]
Dobber’s Offseason Fantasy Grades 2024 – New Jersey Devils
For the last 21 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 22nd annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This [...]
Analytics Advantage: Fantasy Points Per Game and Z-Score
Welcome back to another week of Analytics Advantage! This week, we are continuing our deep dive into player performance by focusing on Fantasy Points Per Game (FPPG) z-scores—a key metric that helps define fantasy hockey [...]
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Eastern Edge: Fantasy Breakouts Looming for Benson, Knies, Marchenko, and Hughes
Last week’s iteration of Eastern Edge featured a retrospective into some of the best under-the-radar fantasy hockey performances of the previous regular season from players on non-playoff teams. As mentioned, sometimes in the fantasy game [...]
Ramblings: Soucy and Nichushkin Suspended; Reviewing Calgary’s Season, Including Kadri, Pospisil, Huberdeau, Weegar, Andersson, and More – May 14
The NHL announced Carson Soucy is suspended one game for his cross-check on Connor McDavid on Sunday night while Nikita Zadorov got a $5000 fine for another cross-check on McDavid a split-second before the Soucy [...]
Fading Assets: Top 10 Players Who’ve Hurt Their Fantasy Value This Postseason
Regardless of what series you’re talking about, all teams remaining in the playoffs clearly have talented rosters with fantasy-relevant pieces up-and-down their lineups. However, just like with any team sport and a prolonged postseason push, [...]
Wild West: History of Trading First & Second Round Draft Picks – Part 1 (2015-2018)
This week, I will go back to 2015 and look at Western teams and see if they dealt their first or second-round pick and if the pick was worth more than the roster player or [...]
Free Agency 2024: Salary Projections for the Top-100 Free Agents
With the draft lottery in the recent past now, the world championships underway, and the NHL playoffs not even half over, there aren’t many eyes already turned to July first. However, as I always do [...]
Ramblings: Silovs Stands Tall; Barkov Burns Bruins; Underrated Zegras, Kurashev, Gaudreau & More (May 13)
Panthers 3, Bruins 2 (Panthers lead series 3-1) What a difference a week can make. Last Monday, the Bruins had stolen both Game 1 and home-ice advantage in their second-round series with the Panthers. Three-straight [...]