The finalists for the Vezina Trophy were announced on Monday. In no particular order, Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko, Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck, and Florida’s Sergei Bobrovsky were all voted as the top-3 goalies this season. The winner will be announced at the NHL Awards at the end of June. This is Demko’s first time finishing in the [...]
The pursuit of the Stanley Cup over the course of a six-to-eight-week onslaught of intense hockey action tends to reveal the best - and worst - of NHL players. Springtime puck can take an NHLer’s career to the next level or it can send it reeling into the abyss of postseason performances we want to [...]
Not every NHL team gets good value for the salary that they give out. With a salary cap of $83.5 million for every team, some teams get their roster playing to a value of $90-100 million while others have their roster play to a value of $60 million. Injuries are going to adversely affect this [...]
Avalanche 5, Jets 1 (Colorado leads 3-1) A dominant performance on Sunday gave Colorado a commanding 3-1 lead in their first-round series against Winnipeg. The Avalanche were led by a hat trick from Valeri Nichushkin, who moves into a tie with Zach Hyman as the leading goal-scorer of these playoffs. Both players have six goals through four [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, Brennan Des and Dobber — 1. After looking a bit shaky in Game 2, Casey DeSmith was up to the task in Game 3. The Vancouver [...]
Playoff pucks again… Saturday featured four more games as the first round continues. Islanders 3, Hurricanes 2, 2 OT (Hurricanes lead series 3-1) The Islanders staved off elimination on Saturday, avoiding a sweep with a double-overtime goal from Mathew Barzal. The point shot from Robert Bortuzzo appeared to be deflected in by Barzal at 1:24 [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. *** Zooming in on players aged 25 and younger, here is the breakdown of Top 100 playoff scorers so far by year drafted: 2022: None 2021: None 2020: Quinton Byfield, Alexis [...]
It’s all playoff pucks today. I’ll use that term because it was the name of the very first fantasy hockey article that I wrote way back in 2006 for a website that no longer exists. Canucks 2, Predators 1 (Canucks lead series 2-1) Just gotta catch my breath here… okay, I’m good. After looking a [...]
We won’t be covering the NHL playoffs blow by blow in this column, though we will touch on teams a bit as they get knocked out in each round. For this week, and for several upcoming weeks, we will be taking a look back over full season data and find out which players provided the [...]
Welcome back to the follow up to last week’s article, with this week being about the West and what they bring to the table. We are about 2-3 games into each series, and it is shaping out to be a very entertaining playoff race this season. Let’s dig into the West! Dallas Stars (z – [...]
