The Los Angeles Kings announced that winger Kevin Fiala underwent another surgery related to the initial surgery for the broken femur he suffered back in February at the Olympics. He is going to start the beginning of training camp, but there is no word on the recent procedure or when he’ll return. For fantasy purposes, [...]
The arriving class Bubble keeper decisions lock this week, and the hardest slots are the ones a rookie is asking for. The board below covers the 15 drafted skaters with fewer than 40 career NHL games and a serious claim on 2026-27 minutes. Players who already banked a full NHL season like Macklin Celebrini and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well what a crazy day that was yesterday in the NHL world. Give NHL GMs cap space, a weaker draft class, a barren free agent group, and it turns out that making a trade isn’t actually that difficult! We saw Bowen Byram moved for the fourth overall pick, and some secondary pieces. Jordan Kyrou [...]
