Just a heads up for everyone that Bubble Keeper Week here at Dobber Hockey is set to start next week! It is the time of year when both the columns and the Ramblings talk about those final keep-or-toss decisions that are made each fantasy season. For example, should a fantasy manager keep Aliaksei Protas or [...]
We will examine each team in the West to determine who the starting goalies should be or could be, as well as those competing for a backup role. Some teams are set with a 70/30 split, like Winnipeg, while others have fairly wide-open battles for each spot going into 2025-26. Dobber’s 20th Annual 2025-26 Fantasy [...]
The 2025 Dobber Hockey Prospects Report is now available in the Dobber Shop! It has everything fantasy hockey fanatics need to know about this year’s crop of draftees, as well as a dive into each NHL team’s current prospect pool, and a whole lot more. Dobber and the prospect team worked all year to get [...]
We are back this week to finish our MVP series. We have completed reviews for centers, right and left wingers, and defensemen. Today, we will be moving on to goalies. The process will be much the same as skater articles, though using different categories and scoring metrics. ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Analytics Advantage. With the first round of the playoffs in the rearview, I wanted to dig into how goaltending impacted who moved on and who packed up early. This week’s visuals are updated with data through May 5th (end of the first round) and include a few new features [...]
As Dimitri Filipovich said, “It’s Nikita Kucherov’s world, we’re all just lucky enough to live in it.” The 24-year-old Russian superstar has scored a goal in each of his first seven games of the season, joining Mario Lemieux as the only players to accomplish that feat in the past 30 years. Before [...]
