Hockey Rambling

Filling content during the offseason is difficult. Perhaps the easiest way for me to break the writer’s block is to participate in a mock draft. I decided to join a 14-team mock draft at Yahoo, since once of my leagues has 14 teams. Even if Anthony Stolarz’s rank is way too high, mock drafts are [...]

The Offseason Fantasy Grades articles have now been completed for all 32 teams. You can view them all at The Dobotomy page. Remember, these articles won’t predict where each team will finish in the standings, but instead they provide a quick rundown of each team’s offseason changes, prospects that might be ready for a full-time [...]

Some professional tryouts were added to the list on Thursday. Calen Addison and Nikolay Kulemin have both agreed to PTOs with Ottawa, while Michael Hutchinson and Jakub Zboril will be headed to New Jersey’s camp on PTOs. Addison is an interesting one that a few fantasy leaguers will be watching. Just two short seasons ago, [...]

My last couple of Ramblings have gone over a training camp question looming over each team in the NHL. We started with the Atlantic Division and then moved to the Metro. Today, we’ll be making our way all the way to the left coast and looking at the Pacific Division. The reigning Cup Finalists are [...]

In my last Ramblings, we discussed training camp battles from the Atlantic Division. Even though camps don’t open for a couple weeks yet, it’s important to keep an eye on certain camp battles and we’ll be continuing our way around the league today with the Metro Division. One thing I have noticed about team training [...]

It’s hard to focus on fantasy hockey so soon after Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew were senselessly taken from us by a suspected drunk driver. Although we don’t know players personally, there’s a closeness that develops as we watch them play and become invested in their performance. I was caught off guard by the [...]

Seth Jarvis is the latest restricted free agent to sign on the dotted line, agreeing to an eight-year, $63.2 million contract with the Hurricanes. PuckPedia shows a cap hit of $7.5 million per season, which is the fourth-highest on the Canes after Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov, and Dmitry Orlov. Their core of Aho, Svechnikov, Jarvis, [...]

The hockey world was in mourning on Friday with the sudden and tragic passing of Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew Gaudreau. The two were cycling in New Jersey on Thursday evening when they were struck by an impaired driver. This is devastating news on so many levels. https://twitter.com/BlueJacketsNHL/status/1829481858968535120 Johnny Gaudreau was 31 years old, [...]

When I returned on Wednesday afternoon from my trip to Oregon, I hadn’t started at all on three consecutive days’ worth of Ramblings, with the first one due in just over 24 hours. A mock draft seems like something that could get the ball rolling after pushing aside fantasy hockey for a few days of [...]