Hockey Rambling

I will have an announcement officially announcing a release date for the 13th annual Fantasy Prospects Report next Monday (for realsies this time) in the Ramblings, on Twitter and on Facebook. I am (still) awaiting the NHL’s decision about when their draft will take place, and I believe that decision will finally come this week. [...]

If you’re an Athletic subscriber, you may want to check out Scott Burnside’s article on the NHL’s potential return to play format. The league is discussing whether 24 teams or 20 teams should be included, although the chances of a few extra playoff teams being added appears likely should the season resume. https://twitter.com/OvertimeScottB/status/1261673339489333249 Just so [...]

The Top 100 Roto Rankings for May are now here! Have a look, and use it as a reference if you play in a multicategory league. Don’t be shy about leaving feedback as well. You may notice something about player valuation that I don’t, so I do take any comments into consideration as I rank [...]

Which players would hold some kind of advantage should the regular season resume? I’ve seen this question asked a number of different ways on Twitter, so I’ll try to tackle it here. The best way I can probably answer it is to provide general categories of players as opposed to a list of specific players [...]

The world continues to turn even as we continue to effectively sit in one spot. There are talks about proposals from both the league and the players but we haven’t seen anything formal yet, and everything until then is just speculation. Speaking of speculation, I feel like doing some “what ifs” from the past however [...]

Pardon the brevity of this Ramble. The internet has been down for most of the day so I’ve been linking LTE off of my phone (likely at the cost of my children’s university savings). However, even though we continue in the holding pattern of no real hockey news, it doesn’t mean we can’t get into [...]

Last week, I wrote a Ramblings dedicated to guys that are currently active whom we might see in the Hall of Fame someday. They were guys that were not among the mortal locks to get there currently – guys like Crosby, Ovechkin, Karlsson, and the like. I also wanted to avoid the younger guys who’ll [...]

So Gary Bettman was unable to convince the GMs to hold the draft in early June. Yet. This is unexpected. Bettman is the man who kept the entire group in lockstep during lockout after lockout. He stubbornly kept a hockey team in Arizona, even after a rich person offered an overpayment for the team, and [...]

In case you missed it, Dobber Prospects head of European scouting Jokke Nevalainen found this nugget on a Finnish website: https://twitter.com/JokkeNevalainen/status/1259152548319186945 Of course, you can view Henrik Borgstrom’s Dobber Prospects profile here. Borgstrom has played in 58 career NHL games, posting just 19 points (9g-10a) while averaging about 12 minutes per game. He has spent [...]

In case you missed it, the Capitals have terminated the contract of Brendan Leipsic, who made numerous inappropriate and disgusting remarks on Instagram. Leipsic was scheduled to be an RFA at season’s end, but considering that some of his comments were made toward NHL players, I would think that he’s burned a lot of bridges [...]