While there has been a lot of handwringing in the offseason about what went wrong in Philadelphia in 2021, it really came down to goaltending. They managed .895 goaltending at 5-on-5 this past season, which is horrific. For comparison, two teams (Los Angeles, Vegas) had higher save percentages on the penalty kill, at .900 and [...]
As we did last season, we will be looking at the notable additions and subtractions from each Western Conference team after the entry draft and free agency. Hopefully, this will give us some indications of the direction some of the teams are heading. Anaheim Ducks Addition: Brogan Rafferty - D - Not exactly a top-of-the-lineup [...]
Two months may seem like a long time, but that isn't much of a break in the fantasy hockey world. We had the NHL draft about two weeks ago, and training camps will open in about six weeks. In those eight months, fantasy general managers will be gearing up for their drafts and trying to [...]
The Fantasy Guide is out SATURDAY, August 14! * As I write these Ramblings I have worked my way up to San Jose in the Fantasy Guide. Some rosters were harder to put together than others. I found a few interesting things when putting them together and I figured I would share them here. Anaheim [...]
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, and Dobber ___ 1. Jack Hughes is absolutely one of the most fascinating players in the fantasy game, and real world, this season. Some of his [...]
Yes, as the title suggests, today’s Ramblings will mainly focus on goalies. But I need to get a few other things out of the way first. - It was a slow news day on Saturday. The only semi-noteworthy signing was Brendan Perlini signing a one-year, two-way contract with the Oilers. Perlini was drafted in the [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we follow hockey prospects and their paths to the NHL, providing fantasy predictions and analysis along the way. In this week’s edition, I wanted to focus on a tournament that is always worth watching when attempting to gauge the year’s draft-eligibles: the Hlinka-Gretzky Cup. The tournament features under-18 players [...]
Darnell Nurse landed the big one on Friday, signing an eight-year contract worth $74 million ($9.25 million cap hit), to start in 2022-23. Nurse is now 26, so this contract will expire when he is 35. Like many long-term deals, it may not look pretty at the end. But Nurse is a critical part of [...]
It is the end of the work week so I want to take some time to talk about one of my favourite topics in hockey: defencemen, particularly younger defencemen. The game of hockey, specifically in the NHL, has changed enormously over the last decade. With that change has come an evolution of the blue liners [...]
One of the few dominoes left in free agency was the final destination of former Montreal forward Tomas Tatar. He was in a very weird spot where he was healthy scratched for most of the playoffs in favour of players like Paul Byron (who just had major hip surgery), Jake Evans (who could play centre), [...]
