During their season opener on Wednesday night, the Edmonton Oilers added to their depth by signing free agent forward Jack Roslovic to a one-year contract with an average annual value of $1.5-million. Roslovic had 22 goals and 39 points last season with the Carolina Hurricanes. He now heads to Edmonton and has a chance to [...]
Welcome back, everyone to the world’s #1 salary cap fantasy hockey article! Good luck to all this season, we’ve finally made it to puck drop. We had a couple big time signings yesterday along with one extension that took place as I was finishing a run. These things always happen at the best times.Connor McDavid [...]
Greetings. Here are the top Frozen Tools searches for the past week: https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1963648264080953656 https://twitter.com/FrozenTools/status/1963649524326625673 This list seems like a mixed bag of veterans and rookies, so today I’ll discuss four players that have grabbed my attention and that I haven’t covered in previous weeks during this offseason. Connor McDavid You can discuss McDavid on a [...]
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 realm [...]
With the 2024–25 regular season in the books, I wanted to mess around with a few datasets that haven’t been front and center all year. I grabbed time on ice and advanced possession stats for every NHL skater this season and started slicing things up, not with the goal of proving any grand theory, but [...]
With the series wrapped up, this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage breaks down why the Florida Panthers claimed back-to-back titles over the Edmonton Oilers. Florida took the final 4–2, winning three of the last four games by a dominant 16–4, including a 5–1 clincher on home ice. Conn Smythe winner Sam Bennett capped off his [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data and find out which players provided the [...]
Welcome to the playoff edition of Analytics Advantage. With the 2025 NHL Playoffs approaching, this two-part series will dive into four likely first-round matchups: Washington Capitals vs. Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes vs. New Jersey Devils, Dallas Stars vs. Colorado Avalanche, and Los Angeles Kings vs. Edmonton Oilers. In this first part, I’ll break down each [...]
After having Joel Eriksson Ek played just one game in the last two months, and none since late February, as well as Kirill Kaprizov not being in the lineup since late January, the Minnesota Wild got great news on Wednesday as both returned to the lineup against the San Jose Sharks. Heading into that game, [...]
Both Elias Pettersson (the forward) and Nils Hoglander were not in the lineup for the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night, and the team said that both will be out of the lineup for the rest of the road trip, so the next three games at least. It is a tough blow for a team fighting [...]
