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 [...]
Analytics Advantage: Brett Howden, the Slot-vs-Point Battle, and Why This Cup Final Is Going the Distance The Carolina Hurricanes and Vegas Golden Knights have split the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final, and the series heads back to T-Mobile Arena tied 1-1. The scoreline says these teams are even. Everything underneath it says [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we’ll resume our look at the second round of the Eastern Conference Stanley Cup playoffs. Let’s get to it! Carolina Hurricanes / Philadelphia Flyers (CAR wins series 4-0) The Carolina Hurricanes continue to steamroll their way through the 2026 Stanley Cup playoffs with [...]
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 [...]
Every team in the NHL has a few players whom they drafted, signed or traded for, only to lose them to another team before the player broke out. For today’s article, I’m going to look and see if there are players from each Western Team that each club would love to have back on their [...]
One signing I missed during free agent frenzy was Logan Stankoven being extended by Carolina for eight years with an average annual value of $6M. Stankoven has 136 career NHL games including playoffs and has 28 goals and 40 assists in those games. He is going into his age-22 season and this contract doesn’t kick [...]
It is almost a week past the trade deadline, and we are going to take the opportunity to do some quick reactions to a few of the players who have changed scenes. There were projected assessments of winners and losers for fantasy purposes, but now we have a few games under our belt let’s go [...]
Welcome back in everyone to the world’s most trusted weekly salary cap article, and oh boy was last Friday fun or what? I can’t remember a deadline day where I was more locked in on my iPhone than this season, along with plenty of texts to friends that started out with, “Can you believe…”. Needless [...]
The playoff race is heating up in the Eastern Conference, and the past week has provided no shortage of compelling storylines. From Alex Ovechkin closing in on history to major shake-ups across contending teams, every game carries weight as the postseason looms over nearly half a dozen Eastern squads. In Washington, Ovechkin inches closer to [...]
Mikko Rantanen has been traded for the second time this season. The Dallas Stars have acquired Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes for Logan Stankoven, first-round picks in both 2026 and 2028, and third-round picks in both 2026 and 2027. In order to make the deal happen, Rantanen has also agreed to an eight-year extension with [...]
