Welcome back to another season of fantasy hockey at Dobber! With the NHL season in full swing, it’s time for another 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 look [...]
In today’s article, we will look at skaters that are struggling, as well as skaters that have started hot, and try to determine if which will regress to the norm or not. This will hopefully help elucidate some buy-low and sell-high candidates. Pete DeBoer is giving Kyle Palmieri a career high 75.5% of the New [...]
The Winnipeg Jets have called up forward Brayden Yager. He has had a great start to his season in the AHL with five goals, nine points, and 17 shots in six games. Yager, the 14th overall pick back in 2023, was good-not-great during his rookie AHL campaign, but development isn’t a rocket ship, and it’s [...]
Four teams jumped more than 20 points last season. San Jose went from 52 points to 86, Buffalo from 79 to 109, Boston from 76 to 100 and Philadelphia from 76 to 98. Since 2006-07, 51 teams have made a jump like that, and on average they gained 27 points and gave 10 of them [...]
Dylan Larkin was at practice for the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday, per Helene St. James. It is Larkin’s first practice of training camp, which is notable considering his pending trade request. At the least, it appears he may be in the lineup for the regular season, though we need to wait for official confirmation [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Last week, we reviewed some of the offseason transactions from clubs in the Atlantic Division, so today we will look at the Metropolitan. Carolina Hurricanes: Why change anything when you win the Stanley Cup? The only major difference going into the season will be the goaltending, Frederik Andersen signed with the Edmonton Oilers, so it [...]
Bubble Keeper Week continues here at Dobber Hockey. We have been reviewing those end-of-the-roster decisions that fantasy manager agonize over when making their keeper decisions. On Tuesday, my Ramblings covered choices between Jason Robertson and Rasmus Dahlin, Jordan Kyrou and Logan Stankoven, and Lucas Raymond vs. John Carlson. Yesterday’s Ramblings went over Peyton Krebs vs. [...]
For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) DobberHockey has 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 realm of [...]
Picture two skaters next to each other in your draft queue this September. Both scored at about a two-point-per-game fantasy clip last season; both are penciled into a top-six job this fall with a real shot at power-play time. One is 21, entering his second NHL season. The other is 26, entering his fifth. The [...]
