Despite never having laced up a pair of skates (except for those of his two young sons) and growing up in Red Sox crazed Massachusetts, Rick Roos has been a huge hockey fan nearly all of his life.  Inspired by often wearing a Canadiens jersey to the old Boston Garden (it’s a long story…) and living to tell about it, Rick started to join fantasy hockey leagues back in the 90s, where he found himself waiting eagerly by a fax machine for weekly stats updates.  He has since been in – and won – leagues featuring elite fantasy hockey writers. In real life, Rick is an attorney, which made him the perfect choice to write his previous “Holding Court” column on DobberHockey, where he debated both sides of a fantasy hockey issue and rendered a verdict for readers to debate. Later, for several years, he did similar for the popular “Cage Match” series. Today, Roos is freewheeling through a variety of monthly pieces: Forum Buzz takes a look at some hot topics our readers are discussing in the forum; Mailbag allows readers to write in to Roos with fantasy hockey questions; Goldipucks and the Three Skaters takes a look at three players (in the spirit of the old Cage Match, except Roos determines who is too hot, too cold…and ju-u-ust right); The Tournament is where Roos polls the readers and the forum community on a certain topic, just the way Tourneys ran in the old Cage Match, until a winning player in that topic is declared.
 
  

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Faber, Byram, Theodore, Buchnevich, Draft Strategies, Stamkos, Werenski, Batherson, Dobson & More

By |2024-04-22T10:45:46-04:00April 24th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]

Forum Buzz: Trading Bedard(?!), Svechnikov, Lafreniere, Hughes, Lundkvist, Trocheck, Bunting, Best Bad Goalie, Player Trivia & More

By |2024-04-09T22:09:38-04:00April 10th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site and are also normally [...]

Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: Seth Jarvis, Mat Barzal & Josh Morrissey

By |2024-03-30T16:05:24-04:00April 3rd, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Top-Line Eriksson Ek; Werenski; Reinhart; Lyon; Dobson; Sorokin; Newhook; Kadri; Montour & More

By |2024-03-24T09:53:47-04:00March 27th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]

Forum Buzz: Hintz; Benson; Tavares; L. Hughes; Fantilli; B. Thachuk; Sharangovich; Stankoven; Necas & More

By |2024-03-11T22:00:59-04:00March 13th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to Forum Buzz, where I peruse the DobberHockey Forums and weigh in on active, heavily debated, or otherwise relevant recent threads, reminding folks just how great a resource the Forums are. Nearly anything might be covered here, other than trades and signings, which usually get their own separate write-ups on the main site and are also normally [...]

Goldipucks and the Three Skaters: Evan Bouchard, Nazem Kadri & Dylan Larkin

By |2024-03-06T13:33:03-05:00March 6th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Barzal; Norris; Zegras; Montour; Addressing Rules Circumvention; Seider; Kaprizov; Trouba; Kochetkov & More

By |2024-02-27T23:29:36-05:00February 28th, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]

Fantasy Hockey Poll: Players Benefitting Most From Prime Deployment

By |2024-02-21T16:43:44-05:00February 21st, 2024|Roos Lets Loose|

Let’s suppose you have two teachers, identical in every way, except one’s class is full of hard working, diligent students while the other is saddled with goof-offs and kids that don’t study. Who comes across as being better at their job? To a non-informed observer, probably the first teacher. What I’m getting at is, in [...]

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