Hockey Rambling

The Prospects Report was released June 1. Updated last Friday. You can order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). * And ground has now been broken on the 18th annual Fantasy Guide. * In case you missed it, I covered Ian for the Ramblings yesterday and had lots of [...]

The Prospects Report was released June 1. Updated Friday with links and notes on where each draftee was drafted (for easy navigation and reference). You can order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). * And ground has now been broken on the 18th annual Fantasy Guide. I've written the [...]

Happy Canada Day, and happy free agent frenzy day! The day leading up to free agency had plenty of news items to discuss, including buyouts, signings, and qualifying offers. The large-scale changes continue in Winnipeg. Following the trade of Pierre-Luc Dubois to Los Angeles, the Jets have placed Blake Wheeler on waivers with the intent [...]

Friday was Day 2 of the draft, and it was also salary dump day, so to speak.    The Islanders traded Josh Bailey and a 2026 second-round pick to Chicago for good ol’ future considerations. The rationale for this trade is pretty simple: The Islanders, like many other teams, are trying to shed salary. The [...]

The first round of the 2023 NHL Draft was Wednesday night in Nashville. Dobber Prospects’s Peter Harling was down there and seemed a bigger fan of the Arizona picks than some others. Peter is a sharp guy that I like to read so there may be more to what the Coyotes were doing here. There [...]

The NHL Draft is one of my favourite nights on the hockey calendar. It represents hope across the whole league, it’s a special night for 32 new draftees, and there are always rumours and trades to go with the festivities. We’re in the lull now where deals aren’t usually announced at this point until we [...]

The trades that a lot of us were anticipating have been slow to materialize, though we did get a couple important moves on the weekend. Ryan Johansen is now in Colorado, and that was covered by Ian, while Sean Durzi is now in Arizona, a trade that Ian also wrote about. Picking up Johansen at [...]

The Prospects Report was released June 1. Updated Friday with the 17th annual Mock Draft. You can order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). The draft is in just two days – follow along with our experts, while at the same time get the fantasy hockey angle on every [...]

In the NHL, all it seems to take is one trade to get the ball rolling. Once a deal is made, other teams realize that they may have to act quickly so that their potential trade partner does not decide to go in another direction. With the draft starting on Wednesday and free agency starting [...]

The Devils have extended Erik Haula, signing him to a three-year contract worth $3.15 million per season. In his only season with New Jersey, Haula scored 42 points in 80 games, good for a 0.53 PTS/GP pace. That is within the range of the 0.4 to 0.6 PTS/GP that he has averaged over the past [...]