Hockey Rambling

Boston coach Bruce Cassidy did an interview at NHL.com yesterday and Amalie Benjamin had the salient points of his presser. The most important part was probably the update on Marchand and Pastrnak. Both are still on schedule for their returns - mid-January and mid-February, respectively. That there have been no setbacks (yet) is a good [...]

Welcome back to the much anticipated Bubble Week here at DobberHockey. The McDavids, Makars, and MacKinnons of the world see enough inked spilled in their names to impressive an octopus. This week is all about isolating players who are on the cusp of your keeper list. They’re the old dogs looking for one more productive [...]

The Jets signed their first-round pick, Cole Perfetti, to a three-year ELC with an AAV of about $1.6M. Perfetti is hopefully the 2C of the future they’ll need to play behind Mark Scheifele. Despite a lot of talk around Quinton Byfield, Marco Rossi, and Tim Stuetzle, let’s remember that if any of them step into [...]

The 15th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide is out and ready for download! Also – the Draft List too! To my knowledge, this is the only fantasy hockey guide available right now. So if you’re hankerin’ for a fantasy guide and haven’t tried mine yet, I guess now is as good a time as any. * [...]

With free agent signings coming to a standstill and the dead of winter about to hit, now seems like the right time for Bubble Keeper Week. As we have the past two seasons, each of our featured articles this week will feature a few of these players that you might not be sure what to [...]

On Friday the Rangers signed Brendan Lemieux, their final RFA, to a two-year contract with a cap hit of $1.55 million. Lemieux had been asking for $2 million and the Rangers had countered with just over $1 million, so the two sides agreed to meet in the middle. Lemieux scored six goals and 18 points [...]

The Rangers avoided arbitration with Ryan Strome, signing him to a two-year contract with a cap hit of $4.5 million. After failing to meet expectations in Long Island and Edmonton, Strome has found a home in Manhattan, scoring a career-high 59 points while slotting in as Artemi Panarin’s most frequent center and playing over 19 [...]

Ryan Pulock was re-signed by the Islanders to a two-year deal, carrying an average annual value of $5M. As mentioned in that linked tweet by Arthur Staple, this opens a second buyout window for the Islanders. Whether they use it or not is another matter, but they have about $4M in cap space with which [...]

The Red Wings locked down a cornerstone on Tuesday, inking Anthony Mantha to a four-year deal worth 5.7M per.  https://twitter.com/DetroitRedWings/status/1323663778886668290?s=20 This is a tremendous deal for Detroit in the now. First, it does not contain an NTC or NMC. It also comes nearly a million per year below the expected four-year cap hit as projected [...]

The 2020-21 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is now available in the Dobber Shop! Grab your copy now to start perusing projections, depth charts, player profiles, content for cap leagues, and a whole lot more. It will be updated through to the start of the regular season, whenever that will be, so don’t worry about getting [...]