Good day, all! Is your favorite NHL team playing today? The answer to that would be yes, which is a fun concept but makes tonight’s daily fantasy a little tricky. I can almost guarantee, unless there is a team tonight that fills the net, that the winning lineup in tournaments could be a very strange [...]
Happy Tuesday y’all! Today is a special day because it is the NHL Frozen Frenzy, which means every organization is in action. Beginning at 6 PM ET, we get staggered start times every 15 minutes, so we should have at least one game constantly in action. Days like this are when I wish we had [...]
The NHL season is finally upon us, so let’s dig in. The bad news is as of the time of this writing on Thursday morning there have only been two days of games, so we don’t have a ton more to go on than we did at the end of last week/the end of preseason. [...]
Welcome back to another season of fantasy hockey at Dobber! With the season now underway, it’s time to begin our weekly fantasy dive. In this column, whether you are scanning the waiver wire for possible adds or scouring the trade market to improve your team, we have the information you need. Managers, let's look ahead [...]
Happy Tuesday y’all! With training camps underway, we have seen a lot of line combinations thrown out on the rink to spark some players in new places. Today, we will finish up our division previews and focus on the Pacific Division today. Anaheim Ducks: Anaheim was put into a bind during the offseason with the [...]
For the last 23 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th 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 realm [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some of the stats that correlate well to future production both among forwards and among defencemen. The next three Ramblings after that focused on forwards whose tracking data improvements portend point production improvements, forwards whose tracking data has declined, and which forwards showed playmaking increases. Today, we’ll [...]
The Analytics Era of the NHL – or since the 2007-08 season – has seen the game adopt new ways thinking about offence and defence, new ways to evaluate performance, and new ways to predict future results. Many fans don’t care about any of this, and they don’t have to. In the end, any pro [...]
It took some waiting, namely because of an NHL investigation that had to conclude, but it was finally announced on Tuesday that the Edmonton Oilers have hired Mike Babcock to be their next Head Coach. Babcock has not coached in the NHL since November of 2019 when he was fired by the Toronto Maple Leafs, [...]
Our MVP series is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attention, at long last, to the playoffs. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about individual players. We will go round by round and look at the eliminated teams. We [...]
