In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the third of five* installments, where [...]
Sunday night I was able to hop on the Steve Laidlaw Podcast with, you guessed it, Steve Laidlaw. More recent readers may not remember him, but he was an associate editor here at Dobber for many years, and with the recent, let’s say, downtime we’ve been experiencing, he started his own podcast. We talked about [...]
In part eight of our look at the Western Conference GMs, we will look at Rob Blake in Los Angeles who served as Assistant General Manager for the Kings for just under four years, before being named the GM of the team at the end of the 2016-17 season. Category Ratings: 5: below average 6: [...]
In this column last week, we looked at 10 players that were in a trend of declining shot rates. A declining shot rate should be a concern for every fantasy general manager. In leagues with peripheral categories, fewer shots are obviously not helpful. But even in points-only pools, players that take fewer shots will more [...]
In the Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast's 31 Beats series, Elan and Brian are on a league-wide odyssey to explore the fantasy present and future landscapes of each of the NHL's 31 teams, gathering info by interviewing the people who know them best: beat writers! In this episode Elan is joined by both members of [...]
Announcement: The Fantasy Prospects Report (13th Edition) will be released on Friday June 12. I have decided to go ahead and release this on that date because I didn’t want to delay the announcement any longer. If the Draft is on June 26 then you will be able to use this with plenty of time [...]
Every Sunday, we’ll share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week’s 'Daily Ramblings'. Wrietrs/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
In case you missed it, be sure to check out the fantasy impact of the NHL’s return to play plan. I’m not just promoting it because I wrote it, but also because we at Dobber Hockey would like you to look at it if you have to make a decision about your fantasy season. If [...]
It finally feels as if there is some light at the end of the tunnel. No dates are set in stone, but folks, hockey is coming back sometime in the near future. While this is surely a breath of relief for all hockey fans, it sadly puts a confirmed end to all fantasy. To learn [...]
Hello, hope you’re doing well. Here is Evander Kane’s interview with ESPN First Take, where he discusses his take on the recent events in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXjC3OTl5I&feature=youtu.be Good on Kane for using his voice to encourage star athletes to speak out against racism not only in the sports world, but also society at large. Akim Aliu’s [...]
