Hockey Rambling

The big news from Monday is that the four major North American sports currently playing their regular season or ramping up to their regular season, including the NHL, are temporarily barring reporters from entering the dressing rooms post-practice or game over fears of COVID-19 transmission. It's probably not the last we've heard from the major [...]

Jayce Hawryluk, after a pair of games to get settled in, is finding his groove with his new team the Senators. I’ve always liked Hawryluk as a prospect, not for his tremendous upside but because I felt he had underrated upside. He has also been one of those guys who really picks up his game [...]

A handful of early games allows me to get a head start, so let’s start there for our Saturday recap. Since the Ilya Kovalchuk trade, Richard Panik has been moved down to the fourth line with Garnet Hathaway and Nic Dowd. The funny thing is that move has actually helped Panik, as he is on [...]

In a game with massive playoff implications for the Jets, Connor Hellebuyck stopped all 29 shots he faced in a 4-0 win over the Golden Knights. Hellebuyck has now earned shutouts in two of his last four games. He’s also put together an impressive run of quality starts, with 11 quality starts over his last [...]

If you are a Mika Zibanejad owner and you’re in an important time of your season, you sure hit the jackpot on Thursday. Zibanejad scored five goals, including the overtime winner, while firing eight shots on goal in the 6-5 win for the Rangers over the Capitals.  To give you an idea of how rarely [...]

Both Andre Burakovsky and Cale Makar were out of the lineup for Colorado on Wednesday night. The team seems to think Makar is closer to returning than Burakovsky is. On the bright side (I think?), Gabriel Landeskog was able to play with a broken nose. I know a lot of teams are going through injuries, [...]

The Penguins seemingly forgot how to score last week. It was especially dreadful for the owners of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. The two combined for just a single assist in three contests. Fortunately, a date with the gutted Senators was just what the doctor ordered. Three points apiece for Sid, Jason Zucker and Bryan Rust. [...]

Well, we’ve reached that time of year: head-to-head playoffs. Some may have already started, some may have yet to start, but March, in the fantasy hockey world is H2H month. Just wanted to see one thing: I thoroughly enjoy H2H leagues. I know sometimes they get downplayed outside of fantasy football due to the randomness, [...]

We plan to implement the new DobberHockey website after the changes, based on your suggestions and the notes from myself and some of my other colleagues here, in about a week. New logo and everything. Again, what you see presently is a bare bones website – but it’s a clean and modern one, so the [...]

Another day, another injury. This time it’s Steven Stamkos, who is expected to be out for six to eight weeks in order to undergo core muscle surgery. Assuming that timeline holds true, Stamkos would not return before the end of the regular season, effectively making him droppable in single-season leagues. Obviously, IR is more desirable, [...]