Hockey Rambling

Training camps are about to get underway and that means plenty of information will leak out over the next few weeks. As mentioned in the Ramblings on Tuesday, a lot of it is not helpful for fantasy owners but there are always things to watch for; which prospects are playing with NHL roster players, and [...]

A few weeks ago I promised breakout candidates from each NHL team as part of a write-in question that I didn’t get to. Well, after a few distractions, I’m bringing the 32 breakout candidates this week. I have the players loosely sorted by how deep of a league you will have to be in to [...]

As training camps get underway later this week, there will be a lot of quotes from players, coaches, staff, and media covering a variety of topics. Most of them will be completely useless from a fantasy hockey perspective so knowing what to filter out and what to internalize becomes a useful skill. For example, a [...]

The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Last week I updated this Guide for Tomas Tatar in Colorado, four or five injury notes and adjustments, as well as the latest tryouts. Business is about to pick up in the NHL – and those updates will come flying at you [...]

Since I tend to study players that I add to my team fairly closely, I’m going to discuss three players that I’ve added to my dynasty team this offseason. One of these players is Connor Bedard, who I was able to add because I won my league’s draft lottery tournament. There are already a ton [...]

In case you missed it, we’ve made some major changes to the Top 100 Roto Rankings for September. If you’re participating in any multicategory league drafts soon, I encourage you to have a look. https://twitter.com/Ian_Gooding/status/1702685723667935734 As I’ve always said, feel free to leave feedback. In making these changes, I’m hoping that we are being more [...]

Look for the Roto Rankings to be released today with some major changes. I will have full details then. As a spoiler, I’m going to be receiving some assistance and insight that I think will make the rankings even better. Another spoiler: There will be changes to some of the categories used to rank players. [...]

In Tuesday’s Ramblings, we started looking at my point projections for defencemen. The focus was on groups of players, such as those leading our projections, blue liners with serious competition for top offensive time, younger stars, and others. Go read that for a review of a dozen-or-so blue liners that are comparable in some way. [...]

We’ve had enough discussion about Yahoo and their positions over the last few weeks, and it looks to have settled into their usual spot before the majority of drafts, so we’ll leave it there for now. One thing I wanted to touch on, is that throughout the season I would like to try and put [...]

Last week, these Ramblings started digging into my personal point projections. We started with groups of forwards all in the same tier of production, moved on to some players with surprising (to me) projections, and finished with attackers that had notable increases/decreases in projected production when compared to 2022-23. For thoughts on a few dozen [...]