The Journey: Bounceback Prospect Candidates

By |2020-11-07T01:27:15-05:00November 7th, 2020|The Journey|

Be sure to grab Dobber’s 2020-21 Fantasy Guide. It’s officially in the Dobber Shop and loaded with content. Read it, enjoy it, and beat your friends in fantasy. Prospects. They can be a challenge to predict, no matter the potential they display beforehand. Some burst out of the gate immediately, becoming permanent pieces to their [...]

Ramblings: Rangers Sign Strome, Nyquist Has Surgery, More Goalies For Top 100 Roto? (Nov 6)

By |2020-11-05T23:42:36-05:00November 6th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

The Rangers avoided arbitration with Ryan Strome, signing him to a two-year contract with a cap hit of $4.5 million. After failing to meet expectations in Long Island and Edmonton, Strome has found a home in Manhattan, scoring a career-high 59 points while slotting in as Artemi Panarin’s most frequent center and playing over 19 [...]

Capped: Previewing the 2021 RFA group

By |2020-11-05T09:17:10-05:00November 5th, 2020|Capped|

Patrik Laine (RW) – Winnipeg Jets Current Cap Hit: $6,750,000 Projected New Cap Hit: $7,917,971 It does not seem like Laine and the Jets are going to be a long-term marriage. Perhaps that means a trade, or perhaps the Jets will sit on Laine and let him sign his own offersheet out of town. Ideally [...]

Ramblings: Pulock’s new contract; Mantha’s burgeoning stardom; Minnesota’s power play; Kings’ cap space – November 5

By |2020-11-04T12:25:25-05:00November 5th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

Ryan Pulock was re-signed by the Islanders to a two-year deal, carrying an average annual value of $5M. As mentioned in that linked tweet by Arthur Staple, this opens a second buyout window for the Islanders. Whether they use it or not is another matter, but they have about $4M in cap space with which [...]

Top 100 Keeper League Defensemen

By |2020-11-04T00:48:50-05:00November 4th, 2020|Hockey Rankings|

Here are the Top 100 defensemen to own in our points-only keeper leagues - November edition! *NOW AVAILABLE* Pick up the 15th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide for immediate download here! As always, players between +/-5.0 ratings points should be considered equal value, and at that point become a matter of personal bias or team needs. [...]

Ramblings: Mantha Signs, Podkolzin’s Deployment, Klingberg, & Strome (Nov. 4)

By |2020-11-03T20:06:15-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

The Red Wings locked down a cornerstone on Tuesday, inking Anthony Mantha to a four-year deal worth 5.7M per.  https://twitter.com/DetroitRedWings/status/1323663778886668290?s=20 This is a tremendous deal for Detroit in the now. First, it does not contain an NTC or NMC. It also comes nearly a million per year below the expected four-year cap hit as projected [...]

Eastern Edge: Understated shot and power-play point performances

By |2020-11-03T17:41:34-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Eastern Edge|

The 2020-21 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is finally available for your reading pleasure! Pick up your copy today and reconnect with the sport that you’ve been missing for weeks. Lose yourself in player projections, sleeper picks and the best fantasy analysis since last year’s fantasy guide. Not only will the guide help you prepare for [...]

Top 300 Keeper League Skaters – November 2020

By |2020-12-01T23:50:29-05:00November 3rd, 2020|Hockey Rankings|

Here are the Top 300 skaters to own in our points-only keeper leagues - November edition! This is the 18th anniversary of this feature! Eighteen years of monthly rankings, though the first three-plus seasons these were posted at The Hockey News. Interestingly enough, the reason DobberHockey exists is because of these rankings. During that '05 [...]

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