Hockey Rambling

Even though Phase 2 of the return to play plan begins on Monday, it doesn’t sound like every team will be full steam ahead as far as full practices go. Not every team will open its practice facility on Monday, and many players still won’t be in their home cities by then (not to mention [...]

You can now preorder your 2020 Fantasy Prospects Report, which will be available on June 12. Once the final NHL draft order is set, you’ll be able to download an updated copy. It’s a very valuable resource if you would like to keep track of prospects for your keeper team – one that I frequently [...]

In a normal year, the Dobber Prospects Report would already be released, as it’s typically set for distribution every June 1st, allowing fantasy freaks to read up on the prospects they need to know for their dynasty drafts in the summer or fall. It provides the opportunity to do a bit of homework when there’s [...]

Before we get going, I'll just take a moment to discuss what's happening in the United States. The protests happening throughout that country and the similar showings of support in other places around the globe are a long time in the making. I am a privileged, white male who has never known such fear or [...]

In this week’s Eastern Edge, I’ll continue highlighting important fantasy hockey takeaways for each team in the Eastern Conference. I tried to include information from the 2019-2020 campaign that may be forgotten during this extended offseason. Hopefully, these reminders will be useful when NHL action eventually resumes. This is the third of five* installments, where [...]

Sunday night I was able to hop on the Steve Laidlaw Podcast with, you guessed it, Steve Laidlaw. More recent readers may not remember him, but he was an associate editor here at Dobber for many years, and with the recent, let’s say, downtime we’ve been experiencing, he started his own podcast. We talked about [...]

Announcement: The Fantasy Prospects Report (13th Edition) will be released on Friday June 12. I have decided to go ahead and release this on that date because I didn’t want to delay the announcement any longer. If the Draft is on June 26 then you will be able to use this with plenty of time [...]

In case you missed it, be sure to check out the fantasy impact of the NHL’s return to play plan. I’m not just promoting it because I wrote it, but also because we at Dobber Hockey would like you to look at it if you have to make a decision about your fantasy season. If [...]

Hello, hope you’re doing well. Here is Evander Kane’s interview with ESPN First Take, where he discusses his take on the recent events in Minneapolis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXjC3OTl5I&feature=youtu.be Good on Kane for using his voice to encourage star athletes to speak out against racism not only in the sports world, but also society at large. Akim Aliu’s [...]

In case you missed it, I wrote about the NHL’s return to play plan. This article was intended as a follow-up to Dobber’s article from March on the NHL season being paused. Developing a contingency plan to finish a season that was cut short because of a pandemic wasn’t something we expected to do when [...]