While there is no official word of Chicago defenceman Bowen Byram returning to the lineup imminently for the Blackhawks, he took part in an optional practice on Wednesday and is joining the team for their quick two-game road trip in Detroit and Boston. It seems as if there’s a chance he’s back for a game [...]
In Sunday's matinee, the Florida Panthers came away with a 3-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks, with Lars Eller scoring the game-winner late in the third of an Aaron Ekblad assist. The score does not tell the whole story, as Spencer Knight faced 33 shots while Akira Schmid saw just 21. Chicago had plenty of [...]
Emma Lingan joins the program to discuss the Nashville Predators
In a Ramblings full of underperformers, the poster-boy for it on my teams this year has been Steven Stamkos. Somehow though, with another goal last night Stamkos has quietly put up five points in the last four games, including his first two assists in 20 games. Stammer still has some positive regression coming based on [...]
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 [...]
For the last 22 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber and the team have reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 23rd 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 [...]
Aging players often get overlooked as their numbers dip, but many still bring significant value to their teams beyond just stats. This is not a list of fantasy sleepers or fantasy assets over the age of 35 but rather, it is a look at established veterans who may be on the decline but remain impactful. [...]
This week, we are going to look at players from each Western roster and see who is not earning their contract. We are going to avoid piling on players who were injured for much of the season, so we will draw the line at 50 GP in 2024-25. Depending on how much term these players [...]
In this first instalment, we’re going to be looking at some team’s top lines and how they have been producing to start the year. Although we’re working with a small sample size, these players have been spending most of their time on ice together and as a result their production as a unit can be used to predict their future [...]
As Dimitri Filipovich said, “It’s Nikita Kucherov’s world, we’re all just lucky enough to live in it.” The 24-year-old Russian superstar has scored a goal in each of his first seven games of the season, joining Mario Lemieux as the only players to accomplish that feat in the past 30 years. Before [...]
