Hockey Rambling

More on Green, Heatley, Gonchar and the Devils' draft struggles...   *   Japer’s Rink takes a deep dive on the Capitals’ options with Mike Green.   There was no question of Green's expendability two months ago. (That is, he was a core piece.) The Caps had just four clear-cut, reliable NHL defensemen: Green, Dmitry [...]

More on the Timonen situation, thoughts on Letang, Radulov on Trotz…

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Hey, Kris Letang cut his hair. My theory is, all that hair was throwing off his weight, causing an imbalance to his skating stride, which in turn caused knee and groin problems. With the hair gone, look for an 82-game season from Letang. Alright, fine, I'm reaching for fantasy-worthy news.

But since we're on the topic of Letang, here is what I have for him in the Fantasy Guide: 59-11-36-47, 47 PIM

  Thoughts on the Oilers' Dellow hiring, Niemi or Mason - and more   *** Fantasy Hockey Guide - buy it here! Available for immediate download.   *** Well, that was a bit of a mix-up. Stupid summer. All the vacationing going on and each of us thought the other had the ramblings coverage. Now [...]

Ruff on advanced stats, musings about the Swiss League, my thoughts on Subban, Bishop, Maroon and more…

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I put the Guide out Friday around 2pm and pretty much just shut down. Elvis has left the building. Needed a re-charge, spend time with the kids who I had been neglecting. But I'm back now and should have a small, unimportant update later today fixing some typos, plus a couple of minor oversights. I'll dig into adding a column or two later in the week.

You can now download Dobber’s 2014-15 Fantasy Hockey Guide, so what are you waiting for? Go do it now!   *   It was a surprisingly busy Saturday of hockey news, particularly considering that it was the August long weekend.    Obviously we'll start with P.K. Subban's $72-million, eight-year settlement with the Montreal Canadiens - a [...]

The moment you all have been waiting for has arrived. Dobber’s 2014-15 Fantasy Hockey Guide is now available. Grab it now!   *   Montreal reached a long-term agreement with P.K. Subban before the arbitration ruling on an eight-year, $72-million deal.    *   So the Montreal Canadiens and defenseman P.K. Subban couldn’t come to [...]

  Dobber’s 2014-15 Fantasy Hockey Guide is... NOW... AVAILABLE! Happy Friday   ****   I remember when I first came across this site a number of years ago. At the time I was regularly buying three or four of the print fantasy magazines that come out every fall. I can honestly say that no guide [...]

*** Just one more day - Dobber's 9th Annual Fantasy Hockey Guide. Friday.   ***   I’m scared.   Not in a ‘watch the Blair Witch Project at home by yourself at age 13’ type of scared, but close to it. Poolies are getting a WEE bit too excited about one Joe Pavelski. He of [...]

The third annual Fantasy Football Guide is now out. Pick it up and enjoy - or buy it here if you haven't yet. Just $5.99 for another week or so. * I'm pretty confident in saying that the nightmare is over. The site is up, the database changes that were needed are in, and I [...]

Dobber here - I apologize for the site lag over the past 24 hours. I'm doing everything I can to get things back online. Please note that the main page has new articles on it - you just have to scroll down to find them, as I am unable to rearrange the order right now. [...]