It appears Sean Monahan’s recovery from multiple surgeries is going as planned, according to NHL.com. It’s nice to hear there haven’t been any setbacks for the Calgary centre and that he should be ready to go when the team hits the ice for training camp in a few months. In general, I’m wary of drafting [...]
Mike Clifford has used the ramblings to elaborate on the league wide trends recently. One piece specifically (HERE and HERE) about scoring from the backend caught by eye, because I’ve had this gut feeling that I’ve been ranking defenseman incorrectly. Mike’s piece all but solidified that thought – imagine playing in a league where [...]
Inspired by our May Patroncast (which you can unlock by being a patron!), this episode of the Keeping Karlsson Hockey Podcast has Elan and Brian looking to the brand-spanking-newest members of the 70 points club, and ask the very important question: are there any young people named Vincent? And also, can these guys get [...]
The Fantasy Prospects Report was released Friday to great response. A couple of errors were brought to my attention and I fixed for Saturday morning’s re-release. I plan to do the one and only real update for June 11 – depends if the Cup is won by then and we can complete a Mock. [...]
Now that we have wrapped up our high performers for the year, I wanted to revisit a bit of playoff hockey. By next week we should be able to check in on all of the player and team predictions from the beginning of the playoffs, but for this week I wanted to follow up on [...]
While many fantasy general managers focus on avoiding Band-Aid boys, most don’t go the next step and specifically target iron men. It should make sense. A player that is almost guaranteed to play in all 82 games should be more valuable than a player that will play in 75. It doesn’t matter why they miss [...]
Over at Dobber Prospects, Cam Robinson compared centres available in the 2018 Entry Draft. This draft, as Cam notes, is littered with high-end wingers and defencemen, particularly at the very top. For those in dynasty leagues that may have rookie drafts in the next month or so, it’s worth looking at Cam’s centres comparison. Despite [...]
Every Sunday until the start of the 2018-19 regular season, we'll share 20 Fantasy Thoughts from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's "Daily Ramblings". […]
