This week's Capped updates the salary projections for all of the relevant 2020 UFA and RFAs. **** After last week’s article where I covered some thoughts on how to manage your cap team this offseason with the stagnant salary cap, this week we’re going to stick with that same concept and look over salary projections [...]
Editor's note: This week we have two pinch-hitters for the Ramblings. Rick Roos subbed in with a beauty on Monday (read it here). Today, Tom Collins steps up to the plate... The last time I wrote a rambling, Alexander Ovechkin scored his 700th goal and emergency backup netminder David Ayres defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, [...]
By this time next month, the NHL should be well into its return-to-play plan with games in hub cities Toronto and Edmonton. This is provided that the COVID-19 situations in those cities don’t get out of control, though. Although play-in round and playoff stats aren’t counted in most regular-season fantasy leagues, we will keep an [...]
In a time when hockey news and stories were virtually non-existent, last month’s inductions into the Hockey Hall of Fame (HHOF) received even more attention than they normally would. That made me ponder: how many future HHOFers might be playing in today’s NHL? And when I start thinking about something, you get to vote on [...]
After a five-week summer vacation, I’m back in the Ramblings saddle and ready to gear up for some fantasy hockey talk. The timing couldn’t be better either. With training camps firing up this week, the storylines are once again plentiful. Let’s dive in. ** A couple of signings happened on Tuesday. The first was [...]
In fantasy hockey, there are certain players we consider to be dominant in certain categories. For example, it’s a common belief that Alex Ovechkin reigns supreme in goal-scoring, that Patrice Bergeron is a face-off king and that Pittsburgh’s elite power-play results in a lot of power-play points for the likes of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin [...]
Greetings Dobberites! I tried to figure out the last time I pinch-hit to do a Ramblings, and couldn’t remember, which means it’s been quite a while. Hopefully I live up to the lofty standards of the normal ramblers….. Although during these trying times it’s even worse than usual to be aging, part of the benefits [...]
In part twelve of our look at the GMs of the Western Conference, we will look at Jim Benning in Vancouver who before being named GM with the Canucks, was Director of Amateur Scouting in Buffalo for almost eight years and Assistant GM/Director of Player Personnel in Boston for over seven years as well. Category [...]
There are some fantasy leagues out there that count almost every conceivable statistic. I was once in a league that not only counted shootout goals, but also game-winning shootout goals. Yes, the latter is an actual NHL category that some leagues use. (For the curious, the career leader is Frans Nielsen, who has 23 shootout [...]
If you haven’t already, pick up the Fantasy Prospects Report (14th Edition)! This is now fully updated, other than the Mock Draft which we will put in once the final draft order is set. A great summer read, to replace your usual summer reading of, uh, actual fantasy hockey guides. And thank you for supporting [...]
