Hockey Rambling

Make sure you pick up the 2014 Dobber Prospects Report. It's exactly the tool you need for your keeper league.   *   With draft time swiftly approaching I think it’s worth taking a look at “NHLe”, a metric for which Byron Bader at NHL Numbers makes a case for: NHLe is an equivalency formula [...]

Buy my eighth annual Prospects Report here. The Draft is just two days away, you absolutely want this handy guidebook in front of you as you watch the first round. *** More updates: Wow, um - the Kings have signed Marian Gaborik for seven years. They'll regret that by January. He'll give them two very [...]

Greetings again! I’m back for a third straight Tuesday Ramblings. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed reading these as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.

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Some interesting developments in Philly yesterday, where new GM Ron Hextall is wasting no time getting his feet wet.

 Buy the Fantasy Hockey Prospects Report here - 500 profiles of the 2014 draftees and prospects already drafted!   ***   Greetings again! I’m back for a third straight Tuesday Ramblings. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed reading these as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.   *   Some interesting developments in Philly yesterday, where new GM [...]

Buy my eighth annual Prospects Report here. Includes Mock Draft and nearly 500 prospect profiles. Yep, 500. About 200 more than you'll ever consider for your league - but part of the information is telling you which guys 'not' to go after, right? *** Hall of Fame announces that Rob Blake, Dominik Hasek, Peter Forsberg, [...]

It's rumour and transaction season, really the most wonderful time of the year!   Though I'd probably trade the giddy din of hockey's silly season for another 3 hours of a Los Angeles Kings v. Chicago Blackhawks playoff game, short of that, the buyout period, draft, and free agency is just the best.   * [...]

  Brad Richards has come to symbolize what is, at least to me, a pretty significant issue with NHL unrestricted free agency. He’s not the first, nor likely the last, player to receive a hugely lucrative contract at a time in his career when he had little or no chance of performing at a level [...]

A few signings to report on from yesterday – let’s dive right in…   It looks like the Red Wings have hammered out a one-year deal with Jonas Gustavsson. This doesn’t have a whole lot of impact on Gustavsson himself. He’s a backup without much upside beyond that. What it does do is push Petr [...]

As many of the DobberHockey faithful know, I fight forest fires during the summer months. Fire, the cruel mistress that she is, had me called away for two weeks just after Game One of the Stanley Cup Final.   It wasn’t the first Cup Final I’ve missed because of fire and it surely won’t be [...]

Buy my eighth annual Prospects Report here. Includes Mock Draft and nearly 500 prospect profiles. Yep, 500. About 200 more than you'll ever consider for your league - but part of the information is telling you which guys 'not' to go after, right? *** Garth Snow has now made it known that he is shopping [...]