The Metropolitan Division is home to the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes who led the Eastern Conference with 113 points. Other than Carolina, no one else finished above 98 points. The pair of Pennsylvania teams out played their expectations, claiming the remaining playoff spots. Making projections difficult is that the 21 points separating 2nd place [...]
Hey all, Alex here covering for Puneet today. I thought I would use this opportunity for an exercise in how we look at a player's stats. When looking at a player and their stats, we come in with the pre-conceived notion that the player is good/bad, lucky/unlucky, and when looking at the numbers those tend [...]
We are just a few days 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, rookies and call-ups to monitor, and a whole lot more. It is also regularly updated right through to the start of [...]
Be sure to grab a copy of the 2026 Dobber Fantasy Hockey Prospects Report, now available in the Dobber Shop! Not only does it cover all the 2026 draftees fantasy managers need to know for their keeper, dynasty, or even one-year leagues, but it has a thorough breakdown of each team’s prospect pool, when these [...]
This is week three of our MVP series. Today we will be covering defense. As a reminder, here is a quick intro to the work from Week 1: ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be completely dependent on the league specific context. For the purposes of this article, we will use [...]
Happy Tuesday y’all! If your league didn’t end last week, this is it. Good luck to all those that remain and let’s see your championship roster. Tag @dobberhockey and your favorite Dobber writers on Twitter with your winning squad and be entered to win a fantasy guide for next season! — I’ll be basing picks [...]
The LA Kings have pulled the plug on Jim Hiller, with D.J. Smith stepping in as interim head coach for the rest of the season. This has felt like it was simmering for a while. Since coming out of the Olympic break, the Kings dropped two of three, and those losses weren’t quiet ones. They [...]
We’re approaching the Olympics, and while the Men’s Ice Hockey games don’t start there until February 11th, the final games we get before the break are on Thursday February 5th. That means there’s only today and tomorrow to get some games in before the break. After their games last night, Anaheim and Toronto are now [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we are going to take a closer look at this year's race for the Calder trophy between two of the games brightest young stars in Matthew Schaefer and Ivan Demidov. A Montreal Canadiens roster that is loaded with fantasy assets and a Pittsburgh [...]
The rookies have been added, with some of them making more of an impact than expected this early. Matthew Schaefer and Alexander Nikishin will be much higher in the next update if they keep these scoring levels up. In the meantime, just enjoy watching them play. Standard pre-rankings note: This isn’t meant to be a [...]
