We have spent some time looking at power-play IPP before (and marveling at the accomplishments of one Evgeni Malkin), but the stat that shows up in a player’s profile on Frozen Tools is a combined IPP. This week we are looking at that IPP number, checking in on a couple of player’s extraordinary results and [...]
We hope everyone is enjoying the new site. Most of it will be familiar as the general layout was released a few months ago, but now we have new tools and features to help fantasy hockey owners on every decision they need to make. Please take the time to look around the site and familiarize [...]
In the second half of answering Alx Lussier’s question from last week, we look into some defencemen that may be able to help you out in fantasy next year. Any of these NCAA and KHL signees worth a pickup in points only league, say 1 to 3 year window? If needed, say 12 teams, [...]
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! Since the hiring of Barry Trotz as head coach, [...]
The new Dobber Hockey has launched! Our development team has been working at this for months and the day finally came yesterday as we were able to launch in full. We had a re-design months ago, but now this battle station is fully operation. Again, kudos to our dev team as they’re the ones that [...]
When it comes to owning forwards in fantasy, most would agree that banking on them peaking after age 30 is usually a bad bet. But some defy the odds and produce their best season(s) once they’ve blown out 30 birthday candles. Let’s use this poll to determine which current forwards you think are more likely [...]
Regular update that gives absolutely no indication of when the draft will occur or what the NHL playoffs may look like this summer: NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he's hopeful today's Canada-U.S. border announcement "will not materially affect the resumption of play timelines we are currently contemplating." — Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) May 19, 2020 I'm [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll begin highlighting an important fantasy hockey takeaway 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 first of four installments, [...]
We’re all greedy fantasy owners. We all want the players on our fantasy rosters to be the ones that get increased ice time, increased power-play exposure, overtime opportunities, and so on. And when they don’t, we often try to justify to ourselves why it might happen in the future. I’m a fan of the Star [...]
In part six of our look at the Western Conference GMs, we will look at Jim Nill in Dallas. Before being hired in Dallas as GM in 2013, Nill was with Detroit for over 24 years in player development and as Assistant GM for almost 15 of those years. The Red Wings won four Stanley [...]
