Hockey Rambling

Training camps don’t start for a few weeks, but it’s important to look ahead to start wrapping our collective heads around what to look for. My next few Ramblings are going to cover training camp battles, going division by division, and today we start with the Atlantic.   One thing I have noticed about team [...]

Each of our editors has favourite players, favourite teams, players they end up commenting on more often, and players that end up being a little forgotten or overlooked. It feels like when writing the Ramblings we try our best to cover as much as we can as evenly as possible, but there is certainly a [...]

In two of my Ramblings last week, players that I’m avoiding and players I’m targeting were both discussed. A lot of the data used from that Ramblings came from the Underdog Fantasy website and their mock drafts. Today’s Ramblings will discuss the differences between that site, ESPN, and Yahoo!, and in particular when it comes [...]

In this week’s Ramblings, I’ll share a ‘value pick’ for each team. While such a term might paint visions of McDoubles and Junior Chickens, this isn’t like the McDonald’s value menu – with cheap items at cheap prices. It’s more like your grocery store flyer, highlighting value in products of various price points. I’ve included [...]

Although it’s too early for single-season drafts (at least in my opinion), many keeper leagues have started their entry drafts for 2024-drafted players. I had one league complete one recently, so I’ll share the results. It’s only a 12-player draft because it is a 12-team league with a one-round draft, so it may be smaller [...]

Summer is usually a dead time in the hockey world after early July. However, we’ve had a mini-bump in player news over the past week or so. Included have been offer sheets for two players, teams granting multiple player trade requests, an injury affecting a Vezina Trophy finalist, and more. Perhaps more news will trickle [...]

The Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins swapped prospects Rutger McGroarty and Brayden Yager yesterday. I wrote up my thoughts on the trade here. In yesterday’s Ramblings, I went over some players whose ADPs I think are good value as we round into fantasy draft season. Today, it’s only right to go in the other direction [...]

On Tuesday night, the Seattle Kraken extended forward Matty Beniers for seven years with a cap hit just over $7.1M per season. Beniers was the Rookie of the Year in 2023 thanks to posting 57 points in 80 games, but took a huge step back, production-wise, with 37 points in 77 games in 2023-24. He [...]

The news came down Tuesday morning that the Edmonton Oilers would not be matching the offer sheets of defenceman Philip Broberg and winger Dylan Holloway. Both will now be members of the St. Louis Blues. As compensation, the Blues will send the Oilers a third-round pick for Holloway and a second-round pick for Broberg. For [...]

I don’t like to discuss NHL rumours very much in these Ramblings because most of them turn out to be false and it’s usually a waste of time. However, there was important news from Kevin Weekes that Nashville’s top prospect goaltender Yaroslav Askarov would not be reporting to the AHL this season and was looking [...]