The Dallas Stars fired coach Peter DeBoer after another exit in the Western Conference Final but a lot of the coaching options dried up fast. Just after free agency opened on Tuesday, the Stars announced that they had hired Glen Gulutzan to be their next head coach. For fantasy, it’s hard to imagine Gulutzan having [...]
One of the worst-kept secrets heading into free agency was that the New York Rangers seemed to be the front-runners to land (now-former) Los Angeles Kings defenceman Vladislav Gavrikov. According to Pierre LeBrun, they did exactly that and terms are a seven-year deal with a $7M AAV. This gives the Rangers a stalwart defensive defenceman [...]
One trade option that seemed to be in play for the Montreal Canadiens was prospect defenceman Logan Mailloux. With Alex Carrier added to the roster last season, Noah Dobson just being acquired via trade, and David Reinbacher (hopefully) a lineup regular in the next 1-2 years, trading Mailloux made sense. They did just that on [...]
The Edmonton Oilers kicked off their free agent frenzy not with a signing but with a trade by unloading winger Viktor Arvidsson to the Boston Bruins. According to Boston writer Scott McLaughlin, the compensation going back to the Oilers is a fifth-round pick in 2027. Arvidsson was mostly healthy this season, playing 67 games, which [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Eastern Edge! I’m Eli Feldman. In the wake of the 2025 NHL Entry Draft (and Grant Campbell’s fantastic article recapping recent first-round draft performances among Western Conference teams), a Matrix moment is in order – it’s time for the red pill. As Grant mentioned in his [...]
There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. There was a lot of movement and signings made the day before free agency so let’s get to it. The big news of the day was that the rumoured sign-and-trade between Toronto and Vegas involving Mitch [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Brennan Des, and Dobber — 1. Winners of the draft lottery, the New York Islanders selected defenseman Matthew Schaefer of the OHL's Erie Otters with the [...]
The Montreal Canadiens making it to the 2025 postseason was the sign that the tear-down/rebuild portion of the current era was over and it was time to start working on the roster’s weaknesses. There are still significant upgrades that need to be made, especially as far as adding veteran, impact players is concerned. The Canadiens [...]
Today we are kicking off a mini-series focused on helping us make smarter player decisions at the draft table. It is not enough to know how a player performed in the previous season, but we need to try to determine whether that level of performance was reasonable or unsustainable. We will go division by division [...]
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 [...]
