Hockey Rambling

In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the third of five* installments, where [...]

Sunday night I was able to hop on the Steve Laidlaw Podcast with, you guessed it, Steve Laidlaw. More recent readers may not remember him, but he was an associate editor here at Dobber for many years, and with the recent, let’s say, downtime we’ve been experiencing, he started his own podcast. We talked about [...]

Announcement: The Fantasy Prospects Report (13th Edition) will be released on Friday June 12. I have decided to go ahead and release this on that date because I didn’t want to delay the announcement any longer. If the Draft is on June 26 then you will be able to use this with plenty of time [...]

In case you missed it, be sure to check out the fantasy impact of the NHL’s return to play plan. I’m not just promoting it because I wrote it, but also because we at Dobber Hockey would like you to look at it if you have to make a decision about your fantasy season. If [...]

Hello, hope you’re doing well. Here is Evander Kane’s interview with ESPN First Take, where he discusses his take on the recent events in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXjC3OTl5I&feature=youtu.be Good on Kane for using his voice to encourage star athletes to speak out against racism not only in the sports world, but also society at large. Akim Aliu’s [...]

In case you missed it, I wrote about the NHL’s return to play plan. This article was intended as a follow-up to Dobber’s article from March on the NHL season being paused. Developing a contingency plan to finish a season that was cut short because of a pandemic wasn’t something we expected to do when [...]

Gary Bettman had a virtual press conference on Tuesday to announce parts of the NHL’s Return to Play plan. Readers can head to NHL.com to read up on the playoff format, the draft lottery, and a few other details about the RTP. Anyone who has read my Ramblings knows where I stand on this. I [...]

The big news in the world of hockey is the Return to Play directives have been decided. And along with them, the draft lottery and time of the draft. Hallelujah!  The league officially welcomed in the 24-team ‘post-season’ plan which will feature 16 squads battling it out in a best-of-five series to earn the right [...]

We’re starting to get some details about the NHL roll-out for playoffs. We saw the 24-team format (in some manner) get approved last week while the actual protocols for returning to practice are starting to leak out. Readers can just flip through this tweet thread from Sportsnet’s Chris Johnston for more details. Limited contact, a [...]

On the new website, you may have noticed that the Dobber 2020 Playoff Draft List is now available. Go ahead and preorder yours. It will be available for download once playoff dates are announced. So if Dobber has the Playoff Draft List for sale, the playoffs must be a go. Right? We still don’t know [...]