For the last 23 years (13 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 24th annual review will appear here on Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, but in the realm [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers announced an extension for forward Trevor Zegras, signing him for four years at $9.125-million per season, a substantial raise on the $5.75-million AAV deal he just completed. Even with the rising cap, he goes from a 6% cap hit to an 8.8% cap hit, being paid as a top-50 player. For fantasy [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site [...]
The concept of arbitrage is an important one in any fantasy sport. Its roots are from finance, but for fantasy sports drafts the concept is simple: where can I find value by drafting a player who has a similar outlook to another player but is being drafted lower? For example: if someone thinks that Moritz [...]
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 [...]
We can stop calling the Utah franchise whatever we were calling them before (it was never Hockey Club in my book), as the team announced on Wednesday that the franchise is officially named the Mammoth. Overall, not a bad choice. The name is kind of fun and the logo looks good. That logo does kind [...]
Monday night was the highly anticipated debut of Montreal Canadiens prospect Ivan Demidov. It was not certain he’d make his way to the Canadiens following his KHL season but the contract situation was figured out and he was in the lineup as Montreal hosted the Chicago Blackhawks. Demidov started the game on a line with [...]
Welcome back into the world’s most trusted weekly salary cap article, if you want to talk numbers then you’ve come to the right place. If you want to talk circumnavigating the salary cap, you have also landed in the right spot. This week, let’s highlight some players that may be on the NHL playoff roster [...]
