Hockey Rambling

One housekeeping note about fantasy drafts. Over the last couple years, I’ve talked in my Ramblings about Best Ball leagues. They are very, very popular in NFL fantasy circles and I hope they start cropping up more for NHL. In short, a best ball league has no transactions. You draft a team at the start [...]

My fantasy sports passion is largely focused on fantasy hockey, but I do partake in the occasional league for other sports. I play in one league each year for fantasy football, and it’s one that I have found a fair degree of success in having finished no lower than fourth in the last four years, [...]

We have been going team by team here at Dobber, rounding up the offseason changes from each team and what they mean. They are all available here and we’re getting towards the end of the list. It did give me an idea for a Ramblings, though: one player from each team that I am targeting [...]

The Fantasy Guide was updated Sunday (Ryan Donato – more on him below). Not a lot has been happening, but when things do then I make my tweaks. Training camps open around September 22 (depending on the team), with rookie camps opening about a week earlier. When the main camp is several days in, the [...]

Continuing (or is it putting a wrap on) Bubble Keeper Week, I need to make a decision on several players on my roster last season. Yesterday it was forwards (you can check them out here), while today it’s defensemen and goalies. Although the players below probably won't be high on the typical keeper leaguer’s list, [...]

Zach Parise has officially agreed to terms with the Islanders. This was one of the league’s worst-kept secrets thanks to a GM who is normally unrivaled at keeping secrets. Parise, whose lucrative contract with the Wild was bought out this summer, finished last season with just 18 points (7G-11A) in 45 games. He was even [...]

Yesterday in my Ramblings, for Bubble Keeper Week, I wrote about several pairs of forwards that have relatively the same ADP and draft rate on Yahoo. The purpose is that there aren’t many uniform ways to rank players, and in a space where everyone has the same access to the same information. Yahoo ADP seems [...]

Bubble Keeper Week rolls along here at Dobber. The purpose of this exercise, which stretches across the entire site and bevy of writers, is to dig deeper into fantasy drafts. We all know how to navigate the top of the draft, for the most part. It is in the later rounds where leagues are won [...]

Pierre Dorion was extended for another four seasons, plus given a club option which would take him to 2026. That's certainly enough time for him to see through the rebuild they have been working on in Ottawa. Hopefully by then he doesn't have to trade away everyone who is making more in salary than their [...]

Last month we talked about two players that are of great interest this fantasy season in Josh Norris and Drake Batherson. At the time, the reasoning was that they could be part of a great line in Ottawa with Brady Tkachuk and their ADP could be depressed. At the time, though, we didn’t have ADP [...]