Hockey Rambling

Fantasy Hockey Ramblings: Daily Strategic Briefings & Expert Analysis
Welcome to the DobberHockey Ramblings, the industry’s most trusted daily source for fantasy hockey intelligence. For over 20 years—365 days a year—our elite team of analysts has provided the essential “morning read” for competitive managers. This is where the previous 24 hours of NHL action are decoded into actionable strategy.

Led by the Industry’s Premier Experts
The Ramblings are powered by the collective insight of the most respected names in fantasy hockey. Our daily coverage is curated by:

Dobber (Founder): The pioneer of fantasy hockey rankings and long-term dynasty strategy.

Ian Gooding: Lead editor and master of daily news synthesis and roster impact.

Mike Clifford: Specialist in player deployment, shot metrics, and micro-trend analysis.

Alex MacLean: Expert in salary cap navigation and deep-league value optimization.

Puneet Sharma: Prospects expert and long-time fantasy hockey enthusiast adept at capturing player trends.

Your Daily Competitive Edge
We transform raw box scores into a strategic roadmap, ensuring you never miss a shift in the NHL landscape:

The 24-Hour Review: Expert reactions to last night’s games, distinguishing sustainable breakthroughs from one-off flukes.

Deployment Alerts: Real-time analysis of coaching changes, power-play experiments, and line-shuffling.

Market Intelligence: Identifying “Buy-Low” and “Sell-High” opportunities before your league-mates catch on.

The Data Connection: Every Rambling is backed by Frozen Tools metrics, providing the “why” behind every player’s performance.

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Ramblings: NHL’s Return to Play; injured players; Kaprizov; Bjugstad surgery – May 28

By Michael Clifford|2020-05-27T23:37:30-04:00May 28th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

Gary Bettman had a virtual press conference on Tuesday to announce parts of the NHL’s Return to Play plan. Readers can head to NHL.com to read up on the playoff format, the draft lottery, and a few other details about the RTP. Anyone who has read my Ramblings knows where I stand on this. I [...]

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Ramblings: Young Defenders On The Rise, The Playoffs Are Coming! And So Is Alexander Holtz (May 27)

By Cam Robinson|2020-05-26T22:13:32-04:00May 26th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

The big news in the world of hockey is the Return to Play directives have been decided. And along with them, the draft lottery and time of the draft. Hallelujah! The league officially welcomed in the 24-team ‘post-season’ plan which will feature 16 squads battling it out in a best-of-five series to earn the right [...]

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Ramblings: New phase for NHL return; playoff format; future Wild Card games – May 26

By Michael Clifford|2020-05-25T12:57:59-04:00May 26th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

We’re starting to get some details about the NHL roll-out for playoffs. We saw the 24-team format (in some manner) get approved last week while the actual protocols for returning to practice are starting to leak out. Readers can just flip through this tweet thread from Sportsnet’s Chris Johnston for more details. Limited contact, a [...]

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Ramblings – I’ve Identified 16 Disappointing Key Fantasy Players I’m Confident Will NOT Bounce Back (May 25)

By Dobber|2020-06-07T15:32:24-04:00May 25th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

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 [...]

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Ramblings: Crawford a Play-in Threat? Larkin Still Top 100? (May 24)

By Ian Gooding|2020-05-24T01:12:30-04:00May 24th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

On the new website, you may have noticed that the Dobber 2020 Playoff Draft List is now available. Go ahead and preorder yours. It will be available for download once playoff dates are announced. So if Dobber has the Playoff Draft List for sale, the playoffs must be a go. Right? We still don’t know [...]

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Ramblings: Frozen Tools Top Searches – Malkin, Reinhart, D. Strome (May 23)

By Ian Gooding|2020-05-23T00:20:52-04:00May 23rd, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

Hopefully you like the new modern design of the Dobber Hockey website. As I was telling Dobber, I like how you can now see hot players and a sampling of line combinations on the home page. Once play resumes, you’ll also be able to see upcoming games and starting goalie information, which will give you [...]

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Ramblings: Searching for a 2C; Ty Smith; reviewing incorrect predictions – May 22

By Michael Clifford|2020-05-21T12:40:52-04:00May 22nd, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

We hope everyone is enjoying the new site. Most of it will be familiar as the general layout was released a few months ago, but now we have new tools and features to help fantasy hockey owners on every decision they need to make. Please take the time to look around the site and familiarize [...]

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Ramblings: Playoff format and reviewing predictions

By Michael Clifford|2020-05-20T11:50:24-04:00May 21st, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

The new Dobber Hockey has launched! Our development team has been working at this for months and the day finally came yesterday as we were able to launch in full. We had a re-design months ago, but now this battle station is fully operation. Again, kudos to our dev team as they’re the ones that [...]

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Ramblings: Bounce Back Candidates (May 20)

By Cam Robinson|2020-05-20T17:15:49-04:00May 20th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

Regular update that gives absolutely no indication of when the draft will occur or what the NHL playoffs may look like this summer: NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says he's hopeful today's Canada-U.S. border announcement "will not materially affect the resumption of play timelines we are currently contemplating." — Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) May 19, 2020 I'm [...]

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Ramblings: What I would like to see in 2020-21

By Michael Clifford|2020-05-16T12:26:40-04:00May 19th, 2020|Hockey Rambling|

We’re all greedy fantasy owners. We all want the players on our fantasy rosters to be the ones that get increased ice time, increased power-play exposure, overtime opportunities, and so on. And when they don’t, we often try to justify to ourselves why it might happen in the future. I’m a fan of the Star [...]