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.
 
  

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Top Rookies in a Dynasty, Difficult Keeper Choices, & The Condensed Schedule

By |2020-12-02T00:18:47-05:00December 2nd, 2020|Roos Lets Loose|

It still feels strange that there’s cold weather yet no NHL hockey being played. But it’s business as usual here at the mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions while also giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if [...]

Fantasy Hockey Poll: Who Will Get The Crease?

By |2020-11-24T18:06:07-05:00November 25th, 2020|Roos Lets Loose|

One of many important features of the DobberHockey Fantasy Guide (available for order here) is that for every team Dobber provides a confidence level of one goalie being the starter. This season, Dobber sees ten teams (nine, not counting Dallas where there’s an injury situation going into the season) for which there is a 75% [...]

Forum Buzz: Rielly vs Hedman, Svechnikov, Zibanejad, Fiala, & Heiskanen

By |2020-11-16T21:59:16-05:00November 18th, 2020|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 [...]

Fantasy Hockey Poll: Biggest Draft Busts Of The 2010’s

By |2020-10-20T17:59:42-04:00October 21st, 2020|Roos Lets Loose|

Although most recent attention of poolies has rightfully been paid to free-agent signings and trades, and their ripple effect in fantasy, let’s not forget there was also a little thing called the NHL Entry Draft earlier this month. And while it’s safe to assume dozens of what will ultimately become fantasy worthy players were selected, [...]

Forum Buzz: Stone vs Fiala, Guentzel vs Point, Ullmark, & Backstrom

By |2020-10-12T20:15:14-04:00October 14th, 2020|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 [...]

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag: Salary Implications, Keeper Decisions, and Trading First Overall

By |2020-09-28T13:17:04-04:00September 30th, 2020|Roos Lets Loose|

Normally, we’d be on the cusp of opening day for the 2020-21 campaign. But instead, things are vastly different, and we’ve just begun the offseason! Of course, there is no offseason for the mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions while also giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they [...]

Fantasy Hockey Poll: Who can carry playoff momentum into 2020-21?

By |2020-09-23T09:38:47-04:00September 23rd, 2020|Roos Lets Loose|

Despite unprecedented circumstances amid chaos and uncertainty since March, many players shined (or still are) during this season’s playoffs. Of course that raises the magical question as to whether those players can carry their momentum into 2020-21, or instead will end up following in the footsteps of Justin Williams, Daniel Brière, and Derick Brassard as [...]

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