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 [...]
The Analytics Era of the NHL – or since the 2007-08 season – has seen the game adopt new ways thinking about offence and defence, new ways to evaluate performance, and new ways to predict future results. Many fans don’t care about any of this, and they don’t have to. In the end, any pro [...]
Dobber's 2026-27 Fantasy Hockey Guide is available now for purchase in the Dobber Shop! This includes player projections, team-by-team breakdowns, offseason changes, rookie and call-ups to monitor, and a whole lot more. It is also updated right through to the start of the regular season to ensure fantasy managers have up-to-date information and projections. Get [...]
Welcome back, all! Summer is rollin’ right along, and these signings just keep happening. I wanted to start this week with of course Patrick Kane coming back to the Chicago Blackhawks…that was unless a superstar forward signed a massive ticket. Macklin Celebrini, hello. Macklin Celebrini (20 years old, C/LW) signs a 5-year contract with the [...]
Not a ton of movement in the summer, but we do have a lot of new contracts that are wracking havoc on the values of some players in cap leagues. I have been warning you for at least two years now, but those long-term deals signed prior to this summer are going to be hoarded [...]
Today we are kicking off a mini-series focusing on helping us make smarter player decisions at the draft table. It is not enough to know how a player performed in the previous season, but we need to try to determine whether that level of performance was reasonable or unsustainable. We will go division by division [...]
We are less than a week away from the release of Dobber’s 2026-27 Fantasy Hockey Guide, which is available for pre-order now in the Dobber Shop! This includes player projections, team-by-team breakdowns, offseason changes, rookie and call-ups to monitor, and a whole lot more. It is also constantly updated right through to the start of [...]
For the last few weeks, we’ve been reviewing peripheral contributions across the league, focusing on shots, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes. The last couple of Ramblings alone have covered the top peripheral performers among forwards and then among defencemen. Today, let’s start looking at the entire picture and compare the fantasy performances of some players [...]
We have a bigger update as we enter the offseason, turning over all of the stats and contracts to set up for the 2026-27 season. Connor McDavid is back in the top spot thanks in part to him taking a bit of discount in order to try and win a Cup in Edmonton. Meanwhile, breakout [...]
With the regular season in the books, it’s time– for better or, unfortunately for me in the last couple of seasons, worse – to look back at my Fearless Forecasts for 2025-16. For the 2024-25 campaign just one of my forecasts came true, although I was close on a few, which is why I assign [...]
