Happy Tuesday y’all! I hope you had a great week. This week we will go over some moves made by Central Division teams and some sleepers/undervalued players that go along with them. This column has previously covered changes in the Atlantic Division and the Metropolitan Division. Chicago Blackhawks: The Blackhawks made moves this summer to [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm [...]
It is Bubble Keeper Week here at Dobber Hockey! For anyone new to the site, every offseason we dedicate an entire week to those end-of-the-roster decisions that managers in keeper leagues have to make. They can be agonizing decisions because we know that one wrong choice can mean the difference between being a perennial contender [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about some of the stats that correlate well to future production both among forwards and among defencemen. The next three Ramblings after that focused on forwards whose tracking data improvements portend point production improvements, forwards whose tracking data has declined, and which forwards showed playmaking increases. Today, we’ll [...]
Happy Monday y’all! Dobber’s 21st annual Fantasy Hockey Guide is here! If you haven’t checked it out yet, what are you waiting for? This is the best damn guide you’ll find out there and it contains sleepers, projections, and in-depth analysis on every team. Plus, it gets updated throughout the summer so if Kirill Marchenko [...]
Welcome back, everyone! We have some big-name fantasy players that have signed extensions to cover today, as this offseason continues to have NHL news every single day. It may be a result of the rising cap, but the salary figures that pop onto my iPhone screen are something that my brain needs to adjust to. [...]
Work has begun on the 2026-27 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide! There isn't an official release date yet, but it should be released in the next few weeks. It has everything fantasy managers need to prep for the upcoming season including projections, team-by-team breakdowns, advanced stats outlooks, rookies/call-ups to watch for, and a whole lot more. It is also [...]
Welcome back, everyone! I hope that all my buddies up north had an enjoyable and safe Canada Day and same goes for everyone here with me in the States for the Fourth of July. Last week, I speculated that: Zach Werenski would remain with the Columbus Blue Jackets, which for better or worse for fantasy [...]
Our MVP series is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attention, at long last, to the playoffs. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about individual players. We will go round by round and look at the eliminated teams. We [...]
With the draft lottery in the recent past now, the world championships underway, and the Stanley Cup final nearly upon us, there aren’t many eyes already turned to July first. However, as I always try to publish in the spring, I have my final list of projected annual cap hits for each of the top [...]
