Hockey Rambling

Dobber, Ian Gooding, Mike Clifford, Alex MacLean and Brennan DeSouza take turns providing daily ramblings. They cover a wide range of topics including the latest hockey developments as well as some deeper thoughts to help you with your fantasy hockey teams. You can be assured that when you wake up in the morning there will be a new rambling on the main page ready for you to indulge.

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Ramblings: Dumba Traded; Thoughts on Schafer’s Fantasy Value; Goal-Scoring for Carlson, Gustafsson, Walker, Faulk, and More – July 11

By Michael Clifford|2025-07-10T17:52:34-04:00July 11th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Work has begun on the 2025-26 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide, which will be available later this month. For fantasy managers looking to really bolster their preparation for the upcoming hockey season, the Dobber Keeper Pack is available in the Dobber Shop! It will include the guide and projections themselves, as well as the Prospects Report. [...]

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Ramblings: Howard Traded to Edmonton; Potential Improvements for Pospisil, Gourde, Hayton, Benson, and Couturier – July 10

By Michael Clifford|2025-07-10T05:29:25-04:00July 10th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

It had been rumoured that Isaac Howard was going to be traded from Tampa Bay and that happened late on Tuesday night as the prospect forward was sent to Edmonton in exchange for prospect forward Sam O’Reilly. Howard then signed a three-year entry-level contract. This is a good bet for Edmonton. Maybe Howard turns into [...]

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Ramblings: McKenna to the NCAA; Top and Bottom FA Signings Including Shabanov, Jeannot, Nyquist & More (Jul 9)

By Alexander MacLean|2025-07-08T14:40:13-04:00July 9th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

It’s not fantasy relevant news at this point, but Gavin McKenna choosing to go the NCAA route, and signing to play with Penn State is certainly intriguing and has a lot of ripple effects. He’s going to a program that wasn’t one of the leaders last year, but he now has the opportunity to elevate [...]

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Ramblings: York Extends With Flyers; Offseason Summary for Carolina; Anaheim’s Future; Rebounds for Dach and Maccelli, and More – July 8

By Michael Clifford|2025-07-07T13:00:58-04:00July 8th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

As Dobber has mentioned on social media, the work has begun in earnest on the 2025-26 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide. He is taking care of projections and a lot of other work, while the writers and editors are contributing to areas like multi-category targets, rising stars, falling values, team-by-team analysis, and a whole lot more. [...]

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Ramblings: Indirect Winners of Summer Trades and Signings (July 7)

By Brennan Des|2025-07-06T22:38:26-04:00July 7th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

In today’s Ramblings, we’ll discuss players that could indirectly benefit from recent trades and signings. You’ll notice I said indirectly, so the players below aren’t the ones that signed new contracts or got traded, but the ones staying put that will feel the effects of this summer’s arrivals and departures. Cole Perfetti – Winnipeg [...]

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Ramblings: Voronkov Signs Extension; High and Low Primary Assist Percentages (Jul 6)

By Ian Gooding|2025-07-05T23:30:18-04:00July 6th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Blue Jackets have signed Dmitri Voronkov to a two-year extension worth $8.35 million ($4.175 million AAV). Voronkov, who was an RFA, has signed a bridge deal instead of a long-term extension. However, Voronkov will still be an RFA when the contract expires, as his UFA year isn’t until 2028. In his second NHL season, [...]

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Ramblings: Remaining Free Agents – Roslovic, Grzelcyk, Olofsson, Skinner, and more…

By Ian Gooding|2025-07-05T00:03:48-04:00July 5th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

With the salary cap rising this offseason, this season’s free agency period seemed more understated and even anticlimactic. With more cap room, more teams were able to re-sign their pending unrestricted free agents (nice bit of work, Florida) or they were able to take care of their business before the starting bell (Vegas and Mitch [...]

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Ramblings: Ehlers in Carolina; Stankoven’s Fantasy Value; Burns Signs in Colorado; Nyquist to Winnipeg – July 4

By Michael Clifford|2025-07-03T16:24:07-04:00July 4th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

One signing I missed during free agent frenzy was Logan Stankoven being extended by Carolina for eight years with an average annual value of $6M. Stankoven has 136 career NHL games including playoffs and has 28 goals and 40 assists in those games. He is going into his age-22 season and this contract doesn’t kick [...]

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Ramblings: Mantha Signs in Pittsburgh; Mangiapane to Edmonton; Soderblom Stays in Detroit; Marner’s Fantasy Value in Vegas – July 3

By Michael Clifford|2025-07-02T13:29:06-04:00July 3rd, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

While this may not have been the most impactful offseason of the last 10 years, there was one of the most impactful trades of the last decade with Mitch Marner heading to Vegas in a sign-and-trade from Toronto. At the time of the trade, Brennan had his thoughts on the deal here. Today, I want [...]

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Ramblings: Sharks Rebuild Plan; Demko Re-Ups in Vancouver & Some Fantasy Notes from Draft Weekend (July 1)

By Alexander MacLean|2025-07-01T21:26:47-04:00July 2nd, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

It’s a little strange doing Ramblings for the day after free agency opens, as all of the news is pretty well covered in other fantasy take articles (which you can find here). Cliffy did an awesome job basically covering the whole day himself, so stick taps to him. It's also a little too early to [...]