21 Fantasy Hockey Rambles
Every Sunday, we’ll 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, Cam Robinson, and Dobber […]
Top 100 Roto Rankings – August 2020
The NHL’s return to play has begun. Not only has the league completed the play-in round, but the 16-team (actual?) playoffs are now well underway. So far, so good. Because of the small sample size of games, and the fact that not all players have returned to play, the number of changes for August has [...]
Ramblings: Rask Opts Out, Halak Leads Bruins To Win (Aug 16)
Saturday started with a bombshell with the announcement of Tuukka Rask’s decision to opt out of the NHL’s postseason. This announcement came just hours before the Bruins were set to face Carolina in Game 3. From a human standpoint, I completely understand this decision. Rask has a newborn at home as well as two other [...]
The Journey: Projecting Picks 9-15 Based on Organizational Needs
It was a big week in the prospect world. Just two months removed from the initial draft date itself, the league finally put the ping pong balls to action and finalized the order for the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery, or as some refer to it, the Alexis Lafreniere sweepstakes. After a few shocking upsets in [...]
Ramblings: Bo Scorevat, Cam and Carey Post Shutouts for Canadian Teams (Aug 15)
Let’s jump right into the five games that were played on Friday. Colorado 3, Arizona 2 (Colorado leads series 2-0) The Coyotes played a better game in Game 2 than they did in Game 1. In fact, the shots were actually in Arizona’s favor 32-28 after they were outshot 40-14 in Game 1. However, a [...]
Frozen Tool Forensics: Winners of the Losers
We have successfully made it to the end of another week. We have had our first casualties of Bubble Hockey, and thankfully it was all the teams losing kind. We saw eight teams bow out, or rather play themselves out of the playoffs. This week I wanted to take a quick look at how players [...]
Ramblings: Blue Jackets Bounce Back, Pastrnak Out, Tkachuk Leaves Game (Aug 14)
Before diving into game action, we’ll start with a few news items. Claude Julien was hospitalized with chest pains on Wednesday night. Kirk Muller is expected to serve as the Canadiens head coach for the remainder of the series against Philly. Let’s hope for a speedy recovery. Nicklas Backstrom is expected to miss Game 2 [...]
Top 50 Fantasy Prospect Defensemen – August 2020
Here are the top 50 prospect defensemen to own in your points-only fantasy hockey keeper leagues - August edition! Not a whole lot of changes this month, just some tweaks. As always, players within +/- 5.0 rating points of each other should be considered equal value and at that point are based on personal bias [...]
Capped: Observations and notes on recent Draft and free agent news
We’re back with the “first round” of the playoffs in August, and we have the 23rd and 24th overall regular season teams playing games. We saw the fourth-longest game in NHL history on Tuesday night, prompting morning hockey on Wednesday. And, most shockingly, the Edmonton Oilers didn’t win a draft lottery. There’s a lot that [...]
Ramblings: Post-play-in interviews; Kase, Krejci, and DeBrusk; Backstrom injured – August 13
It was clean out day for teams that have been eliminated. There were lots of quotes to come out of the Toronto dressing room – Auston Matthews used “embarrassing”; Zach Hyman used some variation of “sucks” a lot – but I’ll leave those alone for now. They need to back up words with actions. What [...]