In Tuesday’s Ramblings, we started looking at my point projections for defencemen. The focus was on groups of players, such as those leading our projections, blue liners with serious competition for top offensive time, younger stars, and others. Go read that for a review of a dozen-or-so blue liners that are comparable in some way. [...]
Welcome back to the only poll I’ve run every single year since I transitioned to the Roos Lets Loose column format. It’s an important poll, because the goalie position is so key and there are always a number of teams with projected goalie shares or likely 1A/1B situations. The poll is based entirely on the [...]
We’ve had enough discussion about Yahoo and their positions over the last few weeks, and it looks to have settled into their usual spot before the majority of drafts, so we’ll leave it there for now. One thing I wanted to touch on, is that throughout the season I would like to try and put [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss why Jake Guentzel and Joonas Korpisalo are players you want on your fantasy team this year. Jake Guentzel Guentzel has hovered around a 40-goal, point-per-game pace in each of the last five years but based on where he’s going in fantasy drafts right now, I don’t think that [...]
Free hockey pool player boxes, for those who would like to run simple pools at the office... Every year in April (for the NHL playoffs) and to kick off September (for the regular season) I group players into comparable boxes and post them online for people to enjoy for free. Whether it's for the office [...]
With Gabriel Landeskog set to miss the entire 2023-24 season, Colorado has spent their offseason filling out their middle-6 forward spots. They signed Miles Wood, they traded for Ross Colton and Ryan Johansen, and they signed Nathan MacKinnon’s junior hockey running mate, Jonathan Drouin. Even still, there was room for more depth, and they did [...]
Last week, these Ramblings started digging into my personal point projections. We started with groups of forwards all in the same tier of production, moved on to some players with surprising (to me) projections, and finished with attackers that had notable increases/decreases in projected production when compared to 2022-23. For thoughts on a few dozen [...]
I thought I would look at each team in the West and see what the ceiling was for fantasy for points, goals, shots on goal and hits. There are some teams who top out at 30 goals, 60 points, 200 SOG and 150 hits, while others 60 goals, 150 points, 350 SOG and 325 hits. [...]
As the popular expression goes, fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. All too often, fantasy general managers can be found to be the fools, trusting players to bounce back to heights that are normally too high to begin with. We have seen this with Mathew Barzal for the past [...]
The 18th annual Fantasy Guide is available for immediate download in the shop. Last week I updated Tampa’s roster for the Tyler Motte signing, put in my Top 50 Calder favorites, and the projected NHL standings, as well as the latest tryouts. Business is about to pick up in the NHL – and those updates [...]
