Dobber’s Offseason Fantasy Grades – Toronto Maple Leafs
For the last 20 years (12 with The Hockey News) Dobber has reviewed each team from a fantasy-hockey standpoint and graded them. The 21st annual review will appear here on Dobber Hockey throughout the summer. [...]
Wild West: Ranking the Western Conference Teams – Part Two
Before the 2022-23 season, I attempted to rank the Western Conference teams from one to sixteen and put them in tiers of being contenders, playoff-bound, bubble teams, risers or bottom dwellers. I then re-ranked the [...]
Top 10 Players That Will Bounce Back in 2023-24
Impatience is too often one of the root causes of a fantasy team's downfall, and it's not just when dealing with younger players taking a while to break out. Veterans who struggle, either on the [...]
Ramblings: Stuart Skinner, Tyson Foerster, Why the Flames Will Score (A Lot) More Goals, and an Aggressive Connor Bedard Projection (Sep 04)
The 18th annual Fantasy Guide was last updated on Saturday, just with some player tryout notes. News will pick up very soon. Last week I added a column for projected goals-for by team. This week [...]
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Fantasy Impact: Chicago Signs Domi, Athanasiou, Blackwell and Stalock
The Chicago Blackhawks have handed one-year contracts to forwards Max Domi, Andreas Athanasiou ($3M each) and goaltender Alex Stalock ($750,000). And a two-year deal at $1.2M AAV for winger Colin Blackwell. The Blackhawks get: boom-or-bust, [...]
Fantasy Take: Capitals Lock-Up Their Goalies with Kuemper and Lindgren
Washington capitalized on their opportunity to reset in net this offseason, and after parting ways with both Vitek Vanecek and Ilya Samsonov, they have landed the big free agency fish in Darcy Kuemper, and will [...]
Fantasy Take: Hurricanes Land Burns
The Hurricanes let Dougie Hamilton walk because they didn’t want to pay him until he was 37, and they traded Tony DeAngelo because they don’t want to pay him $5 million, so of course they [...]
Fantasy Take: Buffalo Brings In Goalie Eric Comrie
One of the more intriguing goaltending options in an offseason where it seems musical chairs was the name of the game was Eric Comrie. Originally drafted by Winnipeg, he spent parts of eight seasons in [...]
Fantasy Impact: Vancouver Signs Mikheyev and Lazar
The Vancouver Canucks have signed underrated winger Ilya Mikheyev to a four-year deal worth $4.75M AAV and versatile forward Curtis Lazar to a three-year deal worth $1M AAV. The Canucks have also signed goaltender Collin [...]
Fantasy Impact: Rangers Sign Trocheck and Halak
The New York Rangers have signed center Vincent Trocheck to a whopping seven-year deal worth $5.625M AAV and goaltender Jaroslav Halak to a one-year $1.55M contract. The Rangers get: a centerman who, prior to last [...]