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 [...]
We are less than a week 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, rookie and call-ups to monitor, and a whole lot more. It is also constantly updated right through to the start of [...]
The Carolina Hurricanes captured their second Stanley Cup in franchise history and first since 2006 with a convincing 3-0 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6. After trailing 3-0 midway through Game 3 of the Final, Carolina responded by winning four of the next five games to secure the championship. The Hurricanes finished [...]
This is week two of our MVP series. Today we will be covering right wings. As a reminder, here is a quick intro to the work from last week. ‘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 are [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening! Welcome back to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday and Sunday I will be taking you through injury news and updates from around the NHL. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as it relates to fantasy throughout. At the [...]
It’s time for my annual poll on overrated players. What is it exactly that makes one overrated, both in general and more so relative to other players? Average draft position is an objective barometer, as is actual versus predicted performance. But there is room to consider subjective factors such as name value versus true value, [...]
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 [...]
Welcome fantasy managers to another edition of the Eastern Edge. This week we are going to take a closer look at the Tampa Bay Lightning’s return to dominance, Washington’s continued excellence, a dark horse Vezina candidate, two Florida Panthers forwards on the prowl, and the Carolina Hurricanes Bus(si). The Tampa Bay Lightning are starting to [...]
Early on Thursday, Bruce Garrioch reported that Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto had signed a four-year contract extension. The new deal has a $7.5-million average annual value and will carry Pinto until his age-30 season when he’ll be able to sign another contract, supposing that this one goes well. As long as Pinto keeps doing [...]
Last week we used league scoring data to focus on some players who were performing well in the early going to see if there were any hot streaks worth jumping on. Today we are flipping the script and looking at cold players to see if anything has changed about their situation that causes worry, or [...]
