Lining Up: Gauging Likely and Potential Line Combinations
As the NHL offseason comes to an end, fantasy hockey drafts begin. As we all know, hockey is a team sport. So, it’s extremely important to consider a player’s line mates when assessing their value. Over the course of this season, I’ll be doing deep dives into line combinations that are relevant in fantasy [...]
Eastern Edge: Right Wing ADP vs. Rank
Please excuse a short break from the summer series previews, it’s getting too close to the NHL season to ignore draft strategy. This summer I had fun learning about other fantasy sports and learned of a great tool for organizing thoughts. I work in a fast-paced environment where I may need a picture or [...]
Ramblings: Line Combinations and Third Wheels – September 18
We are just two weeks away from the start of the regular season which means if you aren’t brushing up on fantasy hockey right now, you’re falling behind your league mates. Get caught up with everything you need to know in the 2018-19 Dobber Hockey fantasy guide! Just head to the Dobber Shop to [...]
Wild West Summer Series 2018: Vancouver
So big news out of Ottawa. I took a look at my notes from the San Jose Column. Timing didn’t work out great on the release of that one, but isn’t that just the way it goes. Erik Karlsson certainly changes the outlook for the power play in San Jose. Evander Kane and Tomas [...]
Fantasy Hockey Podcast: The Karlsson Also Rises
First things first: Elan and Brian have not traded Karlsson. They are still keeping Karlsson. This podcast remains Keeping Karlsson. Anyone who does that is smart. Anyone who doesn't, particularly in actual real life, and particularly without getting anything of remotely similar value in return, is not. So anyway, yeah, here's another episode of the [...]
Top 10 surprises for 2018-19
One of my favourite things to do in hockey pools is to go back and see who were some of the biggest surprises taken in my hockey pool drafts. Last year, for example, players such as Josh Bailey, William Karlsson and Brayden Point could have made the difference between winning your fantasy hockey championship and [...]
Ramblings: Rask repercussions, Sanheim injury, prospects off to strong starts, RFA’s and more (Sep 17)
The last update of the Fantasy Guide was Sunday Night. You can likely look for updates to happen daily or every second day until puck drop. Friday’s update was no easy task and very in-depth. The Erik Karlsson trade had so many implications and I ended up touching about 20 player projections on both [...]
20 Fantasy Hockey Thoughts
Every Sunday, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings". Writers: Michael Clifford, Ian Gooding, Cam Robinson, and Dobber 1. It was just a year ago I was saying that Joe Pavelski was overvalued. Now, I think he’s undervalued. Crazy the difference [...]