Hello and welcome back to Geek of the Week! In this week’s article, I am going to analyze a stat that I usually don’t love to include in my multicategory leagues, but it’s still widely used: plus-minus. In general, players can be hurt in this category based on their teammates’ poor play, but this stat [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Brennan Des and Dobber — There’s still time to fix your pool with the 2024 Midseason Guide! You'll find second-half projections, sleepers, advanced stats, historical trends, [...]
The Islanders made a splash on Saturday, firing Lane Lambert and hiring Patrick Roy to be their new head coach. I took care of the Fantasy Take here. We will get to see Coach Roy in action very quickly, as the Isles have a match with the Stars today (Sunday) at 7:30 pm ET. - [...]
The New York Islanders have hired Patrick Roy to be their new head coach, replacing Lane Lambert. The Islanders’ 4-3 overtime loss to Chicago on Friday could have sealed Lambert’s fate, as the team had gone 2-6-2 in its last 10 games. Lambert’s team had become more fantasy friendly this season, as players like Bo [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Today’s article is inspired by Edmonton prospect Xavier Bourgault, whose scoring has completely fallen off a cliff this year as he continues his transition from junior to pro hockey in [...]
All-star observations Since being named to the 2024 NHL All-star “event” in Toronto, how are some of the guys doing? Alexandar Georgiev, 0-2, 4 goals surrendered in each start, save percentage of .875. Not that his save percentage was stellar before his selection - under .900 for the season, Georgiev leads the league in wins [...]
As expected, the Senators have signed Shane Pinto to a one-year, $775,000 contract. Pinto is expected to return from his half-season suspension on Sunday, so it will be interesting to see how the Senators draw their lines up the middle with Josh Norris projected to return at around that time as well. In the Midseason [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to try a new way to look at goalies. Essentially we are going to be tracking down some goalie start numbers and see if we can find a way to run a report or a series of reports to give us an idea of who is [...]
Welcome back everyone! This week is all about winning the weekend with a loaded slate on Saturday and actually a fairly good sized one on Sunday.The Immediate Fix (Grab this guy and use him for the next several days)Sam Bennett, C/LW, Florida Panthers (Rostered in 39% of ESPN leagues, 55% Fantrax, 30% Yahoo) – Bennett [...]
I’m going to cut right to the chase here. If you need goaltending help, go kick the tires on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen. UPL has posted back-to-back shutouts this week and has five wins and five quality starts in his last six games. I know, I know… the shutouts were against bottom feeders San Jose and Chicago, [...]
