With the season opening on October 7 and preseason wrapping up Saturday, most rosters are basically locked in. A few rookies will get the usual nine-game look before teams decide whether to keep them and burn a year of their ELC or send them to the AHL for more seasoning. Nothing is finalized, once the [...]
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 — The 2025-26 Fantasy Guide is available for download! Projections by team and by point totals, sleepers, drafted players, rookies, goalies, advanced [...]
Hello everyone, and welcome to another season of Dobber content. My name is Chad Simpson and you may remember me from a few guest appearances last year covering Frozen Tool Forensics. This year I will be taking on Geek of the Week full time. For my first piece, I want to focus on drafting fantasy [...]
The Minnesota Wild are taking care of business for next season before the start of this season. Just days after Kirill Kaprizov signed the largest contract in NHL history (eight years, $136 million), the Wild have locked up goalie Filip Gustavsson to a five-year extension with a $6.8 million cap hit. Gustavsson receives a raise [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. Injuries are one of the most frustrating hurdles for prospects trying to carve out a place in the NHL. Missing time during critical development years not only delays growth, it often [...]
Let’s start with some contract news from the last couple days. The Predators and Luke Evangelista have finally agreed to a contract, which is a two-year deal with a $3 million AAV. Evangelista was the last remaining unsigned RFA after Mason McTavish and Luke Hughes were recently signed, so no RFAs will be missing to [...]
Welcome back to Puck Picks, my weekly column on NHL betting. Last week in Part 1, I introduced the philosophy behind this space: patience, discipline, and looking for edges rather than forcing action. We also covered bankroll management, how to read lines and implied probabilities, and I shared some of my favorite season-long futures plays. [...]
This week is our final article before the start of NHL action. Last week we touched on some notable storyline from the preseason camps, and today will be something of a follow up to that. There was some news available at the time, but in some cases it seems to have snowballed to the point [...]
Welcome back to another year of fantasy hockey with Dobber! With the NHL preseason winding down, fantasy managers are now in the process of drafting and preparing for their leagues season. The NHL campaign officially kicks off Tuesday, October 7th. Whether you have already drafted your team and are scanning the waiver wire for possible [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins announced that winger Bryan Rust will miss a couple of weeks with a lower-body injury. Considering the season is still four days away, Rust missing a couple of weeks from right now is not a big deal, but it does give a bit more fuel to my ‘Ville Koivunen is being severely [...]
