For the last 23 years (12 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 Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. This is not a review of the likely performance on the ice or in the standings, [...]
In fantasy, scoring rates for players go up and down, hold steady, go down then up, etc. In short, for most, things tend to vary in often difficult to predict ways. However, for a select few, year-to-year improvement has been the norm for several seasons. The question though is whether they can keep improving. That’s [...]
For the last few weeks, we’ve been reviewing peripheral contributions across the league, focusing on shots, hits, blocks, and penalty minutes. The last couple of Ramblings alone have covered the top peripheral performers among forwards and then among defencemen. Today, let’s start looking at the entire picture and compare the fantasy performances of some players [...]
The Eastern Conference semi-final is half-finished with the Carolina Hurricanes completing the sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers while the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres have Game 6 on tap for tonight. How did the Hurricanes managed to take four straight games off the Flyers, and how did the Canadiens and Sabres get to this point? [...]
Round 2 starts with even less margin for error than Round 1. Three of the four series are only one or two games old. The fourth — Carolina-Philadelphia — is already 3-0. The trick at this stage of the second round is harder than it sounds: separating what is actually structural from what is a [...]
Logan Thompson was the difference here, turning aside 24 shots and earning the shutout It was a composed, controlled outing with very little given up in terms of second chances. Connor McMichael kept his strong run going with two goals and one assist, including the game-winner. He has been on a hot streak with 11 [...]
This one is the generational clash. Tampa Bay has Andrei Vasilevskiy, Nikita Kucherov, Jake Guentzel, and Brayden Point — veterans who know what playoff hockey costs. Montreal has Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Lane Hutson, Juraj Slafkovsky, and Ivan Demidov — the young core that has picked up the pieces along the way. Tampa's average age [...]
The Boston Bruins signed prospect James Hagens to his three-year entry-level contract. Hagens had signed a tryout contract to go play with Providence in the AHL, but after six games, he’s getting the call up. There is no information yet about when he’ll make his debut, but this is something that is important to track [...]
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 [...]
This week we are going to take a bit of a left turn and look at some shooting data. Dobber Frozen Tools Reports has a report titled Missed Shots which includes a lot of interesting information about shot attempts, blocked shots, missed shots, goal posts, and crossbars. For today I wanted to focus in on [...]
