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, Puneet Sharma, and Dobber --- DobberHockey's 2026-27 Fantasy Hockey Guide is now available in the Dobber Shop! Team-by-team overviews, a schedule breakdown, players due for positive [...]
Last week I created a “If He Gets PP1” All-Star team, which you can view here. The players listed are deserving candidates for their team’s top power play, but for various reasons did not appear there for at least part of 2025-26. Looking at the other side of the coin, here are some players who [...]
Every NHL Draft season has a beginning, and for many prospect followers, the Hlinka Gretzky Cup is it. Held each summer, the tournament brings together many of the world's best under-18 players and provides one of our first opportunities to see the next draft class compete against one another in a best-on-best international environment. The [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) DobberHockey has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm of [...]
The 2026-27 Fantasy Guide is now available! Projections, writeups on each team, and much more! Get yours at the Dobber Sports store. - Although the summer months tend to be pretty quiet when it comes to actual hockey news, the speculation around players and where they could potentially fit into their new lineups can be both fun [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) DobberHockey has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm of [...]
Every August the depth-chart sites publish projected lines for all 32 teams, and every August fantasy players draft off them. I have never seen anyone check whether those charts come true, so I did: six years of archived August depth charts, 2019 through 2024, 5,947 player-slots pulled from the Wayback Machine and scored against what [...]
This week we are returning to our division reviews and identifying candidates to bounce back and candidates to avoid on draft day. We have already reviewed the Pacific, Central and Metro Divisions, so today we move on to the Atlantic As a reminder here is a little context setting from the original article. To make [...]
In a pair of Ramblings last week, I looked at which forward stats correlated well to future goal and point production at 5-on-5, then I repeated the same thing for defencemen stats. Go read those to get a foundation on what we’re discussing. Building off those Ramblings, on Tuesday we went over some forwards who [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber and his team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on DobberHockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in [...]
