In a pair of Ramblings this week, I started reviewing my fantasy hockey projections for the 2026-27 season. On Tuesday, we covered how first-round picks are valued, and how to evaluate different players who contribute well to different categories. Yesterday, we dug into forwards providing solid draft values per ADP data from Fantrax. Today, we’ll [...]
In Tuesday’s Ramblings, I started going over my fantasy hockey projections for the 2026-27 season. Those Ramblings covered some players comparisons that stood out for one reason or another, like Kiefer Sherwood vs. Jesper Bratt, William Eklund vs. Andrei Svechnikov, and Luke Hughes vs. Brandt Clarke. Go check that out to get an overview on [...]
We have reached September and the NHL regular season starts in four weeks. Rookie camps start next week, training camps shortly after that, and then we’re ready to rock for an 84-game campaign. Fantasy hockey draft season is truly here. It is time to look ahead to the season and start our fantasy valuations. I [...]
MacKenzie Weegar finished last season at minus-33, and 9-cat drafters are pricing it: his ADP sits at 123 as August closes. That minus-33 was worn on a Calgary team that finished with the league's third-worst goal differential. The defenseman who wore it now plays in Utah, and when you forecast his plus/minus from the jersey [...]
We don’t get a lot of important fantasy hockey news in the middle of August, but Aaron Portzline reported that Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins underwent shoulder surgery. The team said he’ll be re-evaluated in a few weeks to see when he can return to the ice. A few weeks from now would be [...]
We are just a little over two weeks away from training camps beginning and fewer than six weeks from the start of the regular season. Time flies, Labour Day is almost here, so the fantasy hockey preparation is in full swing. I have begun to assemble my personal projections and want to discuss some early [...]
Dobber’s 2026-27 Fantasy Hockey Guide is now available in the Dobber Shop! A purchase includes the Guide itself, which features team-by-team overviews, a schedule breakdown, players due for positive and negative regression, long-term projects to invest in, and a whole lot more. Also included with the purchase is an interactive draft list that contains point [...]
Two forwards finish a season with the same point total, the same shot volume, the same power-play time. One plays on a team that wins 60% of its games; the other plays on a team that was selling by American Thanksgiving. In most fantasy formats those are not the same player — and the entire [...]
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 looking back over regular season data and find out which players provided the most, and [...]
The concept of arbitrage is an important one in any fantasy sport. Its roots are from finance, but for fantasy sports drafts the concept is simple: where can I find value by drafting a player who has a similar outlook to another player but is being drafted lower? For example: if someone thinks that Moritz [...]
