Roos Lets Loose

 
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.
 
  

Forum Buzz: Kucherov vs. Svechnikov; Cap League 101; Barzal; Thomas; Stutzle; Malkin; Yamamoto & More

By |2022-04-11T11:53:16-04:00April 13th, 2022|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: Adam Fox, Nikolaj Ehlers & Mika Zibanejad

By |2022-04-02T23:02:07-04:00April 6th, 2022|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 Mailbag: Hamilton; Panarin; Huberdeau: Eichel vs. Pasta; Pettersson; Hartman; Seider & More

By |2022-03-27T21:45:12-04:00March 30th, 2022|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: Future Draft Fallers

By |2022-03-19T15:46:00-04:00March 23rd, 2022|Roos Lets Loose|

I’m not actually in any Yahoo leagues, and none of my other leagues have categories perfectly aligned with those scored in standard Yahoo leagues, namely G, A, +/-, PPPts, HIT, SOG, W, SO, SV%, and GAA. Those things having been said, I find Yahoo draft averages to be a very good way to assess a [...]

Forum Buzz: Dahlin vs. DeAngelo; Rankings; Makar; Shesterkin; Keller; Kempe; Mercer & More

By |2022-03-12T10:52:34-05:00March 16th, 2022|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: Kirill Kaprizov, Kris Letang & Roope Hintz

By |2022-03-05T14:05:05-05:00March 9th, 2022|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 Mailbag: Ranking Young D-Men, D. Strome, DeBrincat, Tuch, Husso, Secondary Assists, Auction Leagues, Caufield & More

By |2022-02-27T21:39:45-05:00March 2nd, 2022|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: Rankings Galore; Trading Kucherov; Hischier vs. Norris; Samsonov; Perron; Mrazek; Bunting & More

By |2022-02-14T12:57:12-05:00February 16th, 2022|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 [...]

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