Hockey Rambling

Team Canada has just two goals from their forward group from players not named Jeff Carter. I understand that skaters like John Tavares and Sidney Crosby are perhaps still adjusting to playing less minutes than they normally would with their NHL clubs, but if Drew Doughty still has to provide the majority of the goal [...]

The big news of the day, that's rocked the fantasy hockey world to its very core, is that the DobberHockey Forum has finally completed the upgrade and re-launched. A process started in mid-November and began with a failed VBulletin 5 upgrade, is now complete as a successful VBulletin 4 upgrade. The forum looks as it [...]

  Presuming you're just waking up, Team Canada is playing their final game of the preliminary round at noon (EST, 9 am PST). They'll face their stiffest test of the tournament in Team Suomi; but, we should probably mention that Finland is so bruised and battered that Jarkko Immonen is going to center their top-line. [...]

There has been a lot of talk about how the Olympics could slow down teams and players that were on hot streaks leading up to Sochi. However, we also must consider that the opposite could turn out to be true as well. Players that were struggling during the first four months of the NHL season [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day! I’d suggest you spend the day with your one true love but with the NHL (and thus fantasy hockey) on hiatus you’ll have to settle for your domestic partner. As I indicated in yesterday’s ramblings, I spent yesterday on the road coaching basketball. We left at 6:30 am and returned at 12:30 [...]

  Attention - the old, familiar forum is back now. You can login and post without fear of losing the post with the final upgrade. Your posts from the last two months will be added piecewise over the course of the next few days. The forum will be official re-launched within the next few days, [...]

Attention: if you are, or have ever been, a regular user of the Forum, there is an important announcement here. But the long and the short of it is, I will be bringing back the old forum for a day, and then upgrading it to version 4 (old version was version 3 and new version [...]

  Attention: if you are, or have ever been, a regular user of the Forum, there is an important announcement here.   *   Time is running out to join the DobberHockey Olympic fantasy hockey pool. Sign up now!   *   It appears far from certain that Russian forward Pavel Datsyuk will be participating [...]

Morning updates -  Aleksander Barkov, in my opinion, will be an 80-point player in this league. Perhaps more. But that's where I have him pegged. Whereas I think a lot of pundits figure him for 70 at some point down the road and an excellent two-way player. But I also think he reaches that big [...]

Yeah it's winter and it's miserable outside (in most parts of North America), but who cares: get in the pool!   I'm talking about Dobber’s Olympic Hockey Pool, of course! It’s free and fun to play, so sign up now!   *   Following Saturday's slate of games, the National Hockey League is now officially on [...]