In today’s article, we will look at skaters that are struggling, as well as skaters that have started hot, and try to determine if which will regress to the norm or not. This will hopefully help elucidate some buy-low and sell-high candidates. Pete DeBoer is giving Kyle Palmieri a career high 75.5% of the New [...]
Welcome back to another season of fantasy hockey at Dobber! With the NHL season in full swing, it’s time for another weekly fantasy dive. In this column, whether you are scanning the waiver wire for possible adds or scouring the trade market to improve your team, we have the information you need. Managers, let's look [...]
This week's analysis covers the last 10 seasons, 2016-17 to 2025-26, and one question. After seven games, which signals identify a waiver pickup who will be a fantasy starter the rest of the way? The answer is the first power-play unit. Forwards who were not fantasy starters the year before but were on PP1 after [...]
Tristan Luneau is playing 25 minutes a night on the Anaheim Ducks' top pair. That's more than seven more than my prospect model expected from a rookie with his draft slot and junior numbers, and the Ducks just signed him to a six-year extension after only 14 NHL games. ESPN has him on 7% of [...]
Opportunity Knocks: Week One's Best Jobs Are Still on the Waiver Wire Sean Durzi is on a roster in 3 percent of ESPN leagues. He’s played 22.1 minutes a night through two games with the New York Rangers, on the second pair, and that’s almost three minutes more than he averaged with the Utah Mammoth [...]
With the season wrapping up I wanted to take a moment for what has become an annual tradition over here on Frozen Tools Forensics. We are using our regular season stats to look forward to playoff leagues and see if we can predict some unexpected playoff heroes. This all started back when I wrote the [...]
The Kings may have lost Kevin Fiala and Andrei Kuzmenko to injury, but the addition of Artemi Panarin to the duo of Anze Kopitar and Adrian Kempe has been fantastic and has kept the Kings afloat. All three are were on hot streaks of point-per-game or better across the last week, prior to Tuesday night’s [...]
Just a reminder that the NHL Trade Deadline is on Friday and we will have you covered here at Dobber Hockey when those trades break. We will have the instant fantasy hockey analysis in the ‘Fantasy Take’ column on the big swaps to make sure fantasy managers have the information they need to make the [...]
