Ramblings: Bedard’s Debut; Notes on Korchinski, Paul, Parssinen, and Other Opening-Day Tidbits (Oct 11)
My favourite bit of news to kick off yesterday was the record that Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang, and Evgeni Malkin were breaking: https://twitter.com/TaylorHaasePGH/status/1711604049848541426 Bryan Rust opened the scoring for the Penguins for the third season [...]
Lining Up: Important Lineup Notes for the First Week Including DeAngelo, Chabot, Howden, and Donato
Welcome back to another edition of Lining Up and Happy-Start-Of-Hockey Day! With the NHL kicking the season off tonight, today will focus on teams updating the notes from last two Lining Up articles for teams [...]
15 Fearless Forecasts for the 2023-24 NHL Season
I don’t normally dwell on how my prior season’s Fearless Forecasts fared, admittedly because usually far fewer actually pan out versus those that don’t. But as can be seen from my May recap column, I [...]
Ramblings: Extensions for Dahlin, Scheifele, and Hellebuyck; Roster Cuts; 10 Reasonable Fantasy Takes for the 2023-24 Season – October 10
The NHL regular season starts today and thank you to everyone who has been reading through the offseason/training camp. Some days can turn into slogs but we’ve had a lot of positive feedback from both [...]
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Fantasy Take: Oliver Bjorkstrand Traded To Seattle
There was news on Friday afternoon that Columbus had extended Patrik Laine for four years with an average annual value of $8.7M. That put the Blue Jackets in excess of $6M over the cap and [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Riding the Goalie Carousel Part 1
We had a fun few days of free agency, and while there are certainly still some names out there, not much has happened recently. There has been a lot of analysis here at Dobber Hockey, [...]
Ramblings: Fantasy Rookie Drafts; Free Agency Thoughts; Matthew Tkachuk, David Quinn & More (Jul 22)
Between Dobber covering for me on free-agency opening day, and swapping days with Cliffy this week, it has been a while since I got to share some thoughts here. I’ll start with the draft, and [...]
Fantasy Take: Niederreiter Moves On To Nashville
One of the more notable free agents left on the board signed on with a new team on Thursday morning. Nino Niederreiter, the recent Carolina Hurricane winger, latched onto Nashville for a two-year deal carrying [...]
Capped: Discussing Free Agent Signings Like Gaudreau, Copp, and Palat – Part 2
Much like last week, I plan on discussing some of the free agent/trade targets and the contracts that they have recently signed. Since the free agent commenced, there has been sizable movement across the league, [...]
Ramblings: Looking At Slavin, Matheson, Perunovich, and Bouchard; Rodrigues – July 21
In Wednesday’s Ramblings, we talked about defencemen that had recently changed teams via trades. It really was a neat little four-pack of important players, for different reasons, that were all on the move. The through [...]