After ceding my last two Ramblings days to Cliffy and Dobber, I’m back and I have a whole lot of thoughts on some early-season starts from plenty of players in addition to some nuggets from games last night. We’ll start with those. * The Leafs lost not only the game, but also Auston Matthews and [...]
Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site [...]
We are officially under a week until the regular season begins. Congratulations to everyone, we made it! Unfortunately, when the players start skating, there is always a risk of injury. While there are no turf rinks (sorry NY Giants fans/Malik Nabers owners), there was a major season ending knee injury that will cause ripples through [...]
The 2025–26 season is shaping up as a test case for how different kinds of young talent translate in fantasy hockey. Connor Bedard has already proven he can drive play on a weak Chicago roster, piling up elite per-60 production despite a below-average shooting percentage and limited support. Matvei Michkov enters Philadelphia with a chance [...]
NHL hockey is back, baybeeeee! The mornings are a little chillier, pumpkin season is in full effect, and the ice is chilled inside your favorite team’s arena. Being on the west coast, it is nice to wake up on Saturday morning and have the first game start at 10am and the last one start at [...]
With training camps opening, we finally got updates on a lot of players on whom fantasy managers have been anticipating updates. Earlier in the summer, got word that Florida forward Matthew Tkachuk would miss the start of the season and that it was likely to drag well into the regular season. We got an update, [...]
We have reached the final week of August and that means training camps are right around the corner. If anyone hasn’t picked up their copy of the 2025-26 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide, now is a great time to do it! This guide has projections, team-by-team reviews, category-specific articles, a schedule breakdown, and a whole lot [...]
For the last 22 years (12 with The Hockey News), Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy hockey standpoint and graded them. The 23rd annual review will appear here on Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the [...]
It’s time for a staple poll where you decide which players will hit the all-important point-per-game mark for the first time in the upcoming season. If past seasons are any indication, it is fewer than you might expect, as in 2023-24 only five of the 38 players who scored at a point-per-game rate while appearing [...]
The NHL Entry Draft takes place this weekend in Los Angeles and to get prepared for the draft, be sure to grab a copy of the 2025 Dobber Fantasy Hockey Prospects Report! It has a breakdown of this year’s crop of draftees, an in-depth look at each NHL team’s prospect pool, and a whole lot [...]
