Hockey Rambling

  Goldie: Here are my thoughts on the Anderson deal and how it might impact Robin Lehner. Also, Atte Engren has been assigned to Milwaukee. He's #39 on my Top-100 Prospects list and has been one of the best SM-liiga goalies over the past two seasons.   Jiri Hudler is missing his third straight with an injury tonight.   Daniel [...]

  GM Gates is running a little contest in the forum in which you can name the DobberHockey farm team - that's the area where myself or Angus choose a column written by YOU for publication on front page. Details here.   The rookie adrenalin rush has finally worn off of Matt Calvert, as he [...]

The 2011 DobberBaseball fantasy guide is out!   I'll do my best to open up the fantasy mailbag tomorrow evening./   Try your hand at naming the "farm team" section on the DobberHockey forums. We have had some great talent step up with their contributions since putting this idea into place a few months ago! [...]

  I know Jonathan Quick is having a spectacular season, but games like last night must plant a tiny seed of doubt in the eyes of LA fans and management. Quick was horrible last year during the playoffs (to be fair, he had played over 70 regular season games and was completely spent).   If [...]

  Oldie Goldie says: Here's my scouting report on Ray Emery's win last night. Hope you all heeded my advice from Monday's School of Block. A bit risky, but he makes a great buy-low, sell-high option.       Jacob Markstrom is out for the season after undergoing knee surgery. He will be healthy well before training camp in [...]

  Rick Nash has gone 10 games without a goal. That's the third longest of his career, according to the Dispatch.   Dany Heatley could be suspended for this elbow on Steve Ott - I added the clip below.   With Jason ARnott out for a week or two, along with Backstrom, Marcus Johansson is [...]

  GM Gates and Praba have posted their March edition of the Top 100 Roto Players.   Need help with your fantasy squad? Well, letters to my mailbag typically dwindle at this time of year, so here I am about to do tomorrow's mailbag (for The Hockey News) and I only have a handful of [...]

  Breaking: Sidney Crosby was back on skates this morning and shooting pucks   FrozenPool Update: Jason Arbuthnot here. The Fantasy manager is back online. Sorry for the delay. I hope it's all back and functional. First test runs look successful. require_once( 'includes/sql_layer.php' ); require_once( 'includes/frozenpool_inc.php' ); unset($dbi); $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbuname = 'dobber_frozen'; $dbpass [...]

  Boston is 2-2-2 since the deadline and have managed just 11 goals in those six games. Lucic was in on six of them, Krejci on seven of them, and Horton on five of them. The rest of this team is ice cold.   Colorado prospect Mark Olver leads all AHL rookies with 23 goals. [...]

  Braden Holtby has allowed four goals on the last 178 shots he has faced. Washington is going to have one of those "good" problems this summer with three fantastic young goalies.   Toronto prospect Matt Frattin (Univeristy of North Dakota) was recently named WCHA Player of the Year. He had three goals and an [...]