Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
We’re seeing the Covid protocol list grow again after it dipped following the Christmas break. A few high-profile names have been moved to the list of late, including Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, Claude Giroux, Alex Tuch, Ivan Provorov, Sam Reinhart, Trevor Zegras, and many others. My best advice is to make sure your streamers are [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll discuss power-play situations for the Islanders, Capitals and Canadiens. This will be the first of two articles about power plays in the East and we’ll cover a few more teams next week. Anyone looking for some power-play data can head over to Frozen Tools. There are combinations, shots, percentages, [...]
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up and a Happy New Year to everyone. This week we’re going to take a look at some more recent hot lines throughout the league. In particular, we’ll discuss the hottest even strength lines from the last week. Games and player status have still been in a state [...]
With just one game in the NHL last night, there really isn’t a whole lot to talk about, other than a bit of news. This is my first Ramblings of 2022 so I thought it would be a good chance to essentially build off my final Ramblings of 2021. That article covered some stats that [...]
Happy New Year to everyone! With this column, I will piggyback from Brennan Des’s Eastern Edge column from last week and focus on some players from each team for the regular season calendar year of 2021 and see if there are some interesting takeaways. Anaheim Ducks For the 2021 calendar year, Troy Terry led the [...]
Scoring is up in the first few games since Christmas, but that shouldn't have been much of a surprise. With numerous games postponed, many teams had at least a week off, which gave players the chance to rest up. It is almost like a new start to the season as players seem refreshed and full [...]
Midseason Guide will be out January 14. Eleven days! This Guide comes with your Ultimate Fantasy Pack or Gold/Platinum subscriptions. It does not come with the Keeper League Fantasy Pack nor the Silver subs. You can pre-order it here. Those who bought the Midseason Guide last year would have had a heads-up about Arvid Soderblom. [...]
Every Sunday, we share 21 Fantasy Rambles from our writers at DobberHockey. These thoughts are curated from the past week's ‘Daily Ramblings’. Writers/Editors: Ian Gooding, Michael Clifford, Alexander MacLean, and Dobber ___ 1. Happy New Year, and all the best to you in the coming year! I know we were hoping that 2021 would turn [...]
With the exception of the irregular schedule of last season, January 1 on the NHL calendar means Winter Classic. This year’s battle was in frozen Minnesota, where the temperature was about minus-22 Celsius (minus-8 Fahrenheit). In front of the Minnesota faithful, Jordan Kyrou stole the show. The Blues forward scored two goals and two assists [...]
