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: DeBrincat; Kakko vs. Laffy; Donato; Soderblom; Rossi vs. Newhook; Guentzel; Couturier vs. ROR; Schmid vs. Thompson & More

By |2023-10-23T15:59:59-04:00October 25th, 2023|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 [...]

15 Fearless Forecasts for the 2023-24 NHL Season

By |2023-10-10T07:21:00-04:00October 10th, 2023|Roos Lets Loose|

I don’t normally dwell on how my prior season’s Fearless Forecasts fared, admittedly because usually far fewer actually pan out versus those that don’t. But as can be seen from my May recap column, I had a pretty successful 2022-23, turning in perhaps my best performance since I started doing this way back in 2015. [...]

Fantasy Hockey Mailbag – Part 3: Makar, Hischier, Dahlin, Auction Drafts/Keepers, Vanecek, Raymond, Cozens, McTavish, E. Karlsson & More

By |2023-09-29T15:34:39-04:00October 4th, 2023|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 Mailbag – Part 2: DeBrincat, Dunn, Fiala, Scheifele, Goalie Tandems, Wilson vs. Atkinson, Karlsson, Bedard, Panarin & More

By |2023-09-24T11:40:28-04:00September 27th, 2023|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 Mailbag – Part 1: J.T. Miller, Heiskanen, Bouchard, Hintz, Seider, Copley, Fiala, Tavares, Point, Sorokin & More

By |2023-09-17T13:38:27-04:00September 20th, 2023|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: Timeshare Goalie Battles

By |2023-09-12T21:01:42-04:00September 13th, 2023|Roos Lets Loose|

Welcome back to the only poll I’ve run every single year since I transitioned to the Roos Lets Loose column format. It’s an important poll, because the goalie position is so key and there are always a number of teams with projected goalie shares or likely 1A/1B situations. The poll is based entirely on the [...]

Forum Buzz: Kaprizov vs. M. Tkachuk; Pettersson vs. Marner; Verhaeghe; Rossi; Slafkovsky; Kakko; Toffoli; Sergachev & More

By |2023-09-05T22:47:34-04:00September 6th, 2023|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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