Hockey Rambling

My favourite bit of news to kick off yesterday was the record that Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, and Evgeni Malkin were breaking: https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1711604049848541426 Bryan Rust opened the scoring for the Penguins for the third season in a row, and looks primed for a bounce-back campaign after dipping to only a 47-point-pace last season. He was [...]

The NHL regular season starts today and thank you to everyone who has been reading through the offseason/training camp. Some days can turn into slogs but we’ve had a lot of positive feedback from both the Ramblings portions and the specific columns that are written daily/weekly, and that makes this writer/editor happy. We are here [...]

The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Lots and lots of camp cuts, claims and news this weekend, and all of it is in the Guide. Stay on top of things! Pick it up here. Between Friday, Saturday and Sunday I made 21 updates. Not a typo. A couple [...]

The Minnesota Wild have signed Ryan Hartman to a three-year extension with a $4 million AAV. After scoring an outlier 34 goals and 65 points in 2021-22, Hartman fell to just 15 goals and 37 points in 59 games last season. Over a full season, he still would have reached 50 points, so there’s still [...]

At this time of year there’s a ton of injury and roster cut news to sift through, so I’ll try to pull out the most fantasy-relevant stories. Jared Spurgeon is currently listed as week-to-week with an upper-body injury (possibly a shoulder injury) suffered in Thursday’s preseason game. Spurgeon has been an underrated fantasy defenseman for [...]

Just days after agreeing to a new contract with Trevor Zegras, the Ducks have signed Jamie Drysdale to a three-year contract worth $6.9 million. Drysdale missed all but eight games last season because of a torn labrum in his left shoulder. He’s a potential deep sleeper in fantasy drafts because of his offensive upside and [...]

This is the last week before the regular season starts, so it’s our last opportunity to talk about preseason fantasy drafts. So, let’s talk about rankings. Speaking of rankings, we have those in the 2023-24 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide! Along with rankings, there are projections, line combinations, prospect upsides, and a whole lot more. It [...]

New Jersey’s top line of Jesper Bratt, Jack Hughes, and Tyler Toffoli is going to go absolutely bananas this year. It does seem like the power play units have been keeping each of the two top lines together to form each unit at the moment, with Jack getting his brother Luke Hughes at the point, [...]

Another day, another slew of training camp notes: Anaheim has signed RFA forward Trevor Zegras for three years with an AAV of $5.75M.The Leafs announced defenceman Conor Timmins has some sort of significant lower-body injury and is considered week-to-week for now. Timmins was playing very well in the preseason and showed well last year as [...]

The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Lots and lots of camp cuts, claims and news this weekend, and all of it is in the Guide. Stay on top of things! Pick it up here. It’s finally here – Dobbernomics has a free APP! iOS - https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6451386086?pt=125113043&ct=twitter&mt=8 Android - [...]