Ramblings: Breaking Down Recent Player News – Askarov, Laine, Demko, and More (Aug 24)
Summer is usually a dead time in the hockey world after early July. However, we’ve had a mini-bump in player news over the past week or so. Included have been offer sheets for two players, [...]
Fantasy Take: Sharks Acquire Yaroslav Askarov
When the Nashville Predators signed goaltender Juuse Saros to a long-term extension, the writing was on the wall that prospect goalie Yaroslav Askarov was not likely to remain with the franchise for very long. After [...]
Dobber’s Offseason Fantasy Grades – New York Islanders
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 [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Bounce-Back Players, and Those to Avoid, in the Atlantic Division
This week, after a brief break for Bubble Week, we are here to finish our division review. Over the past few weeks we have looked at advanced stats and flagged players whose point pace from [...]
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Ramblings: Stamkos’ Situation; Calder Finalists; Canes Advance; Leafs Live On & More (May 1)
One of my friends asked me if I thought Steven Stamkos was going to retire. To me it seems like a ridiculous notion, but I can see where that discourse has come from. For a [...]
Eastern Edge: One Burning Question for Each Eastern Conference Club Still Standing
Depending on the timing of when you’re taking in this article, the second round of the Eastern Conference playoff picture could already be crystal clear. For what is supposed to be the most intense and [...]
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 [...]