Hello everyone and Happy New Year’s! The NHL season is finally back but this crazy offseason went out with one last bang as we had a major trade right before Opening Night. The Toronto Maple Leafs acquire Kirill Marchenko, Elvis Merzlikins (18% salary retention) and Miles Wood from the Columbus Blue Jackets for Matthew Knies, [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Last week, we reviewed some of the offseason transactions from clubs in the Atlantic Division, so today we will look at the Metropolitan. Carolina Hurricanes: Why change anything when you win the Stanley Cup? The only major difference going into the season will be the goaltending, Frederik Andersen signed with the Edmonton Oilers, so it [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber and his team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in [...]
Historically in this column prior to the start of the season, we have looked at the 4th year breakout candidates, but over the last few seasons we have transitioned to a more games-played approach for breakout thresholds. This idea came from an article posted on June 30th, 2022 and is a good read so definitely [...]
The Columbus Blue Jackets hired Rick Bowness on January 12, 2026, and one of the players who benefited from the new coach was center Charlie Coyle: His points per game increased significantly from 0.58 (26 points in 45 games) to 0.86 (32 points in 37 games). Before Bowness came on as coach, Coyle was only [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Parker Kelly scored his first goal of the postseason to break a 2-2 deadlock in Game 4 between the Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild to give the Avalanche a 3-2 lead, and eventually help them to a 5-2 win after empty-net goals from Nathan MacKinnon and Brock Nelson. This puts Colorado up 3-1 in the [...]
The Buffalo Sabres blew this one open, rolling to a 6–1 win over the Boston Bruins and taking firm control of the series at 3–1. Buffalo dropped four goals in the first period and never looked back, forcing Boston to chase the game the rest of the way. Peyton Krebs, Zach Benson, Bowen Byram, and [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll be looking at the Columbus Blue Jackets’ turnaround under Rick Bowness, the New York Rangers heating up for the fantasy hockey playoffs, Bryan Rust’s immense value, and Egor Chinakov’s offensive explosion since his trade to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Let’s get to it! [...]
