Once again, I’m carrying on a longstanding DobberHockey tradition of making Fearless Forecasts for the upcoming season. What makes these forecasts “fearless” is they’re plausible, yet more bold than normal predictions. As such, I expect to get more of these wrong than right, but all are rooted in logic and/or statistics, such that – right [...]
Welcome back to another year of fantasy hockey at Dobber! With the regular season just days away, it’s time to begin our 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 [...]
This week on Frozen Tool Forensics we are going to focus on some preseason storylines. Preseason is an interesting time with wild line combinations, players out of the lineup, random depth players scoring big in preseason games, and players being sent back to the minors. We are going to try sifting through some of the [...]
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 [...]
