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 [...]
Dylan Loucks of The Hockey News joins the program to discuss the Minnesota Wild. Jesse and Victor ask about pros Kirill Kaprizov, Matt Boldy, Joel Eriksson Ek, Ryan Hartman, Blake Coleman, Danila Yurov, Bobby Brink, Maxim Shabanov, Quinn Hughes, Brock Faber, Jesper Wallstedt, and Filip Gustavsson. In Cat's instincts, Cat Silverman of InGoal magazine joins [...]
The Minnesota Wild have acquired winger Blake Coleman and defenceman Olli Maatta from the Calgary Flames for defenceman Jake Middleton and a trio of draft picks (a 2nd, a 3rd, and a 4th rounder), per Elliotte Friedman. Coleman had 20 goals , 35 points, 152 hits, and 176 shots in 69 games last season. He [...]
Alright, so this one’s a little different. Dallas and Minnesota are all but locked in as a first-round matchup. This is the first series of the 2026 playoffs that’s essentially confirmed. These two are seeing each other, and they both know it. They’ve got one more head-to-head left on April 9 in Dallas, the last [...]
The first round of the playoffs is officially wrapped and it is time to turn our attentions, at long last, to those series. We are going to dive into this extra set of games and see if there is anything to learn about a player’s performance. We will go round by round and look at [...]
The Minnesota Wild have acquired Gustav Nyquist from the Nashville Predators for the Wild’s second-round pick in 2026. The Predators will also retain 50 percent of Nyquist’s $3.185 million cap hit. The Wild receive: Nyquist, who finished with an unexpected career high of 75 points last season at age 34. His results have plummeted along [...]
