Time to empty the mailbag one last time before the puck drops on the 2019-20 campaign. As usual, I’ll maintain the goal of giving thorough enough responses while at the same time providing useful fantasy advice and food for thought to other readers, even if they don’t own the player(s) which happen to be [...]
The Salary Cap League Rankings are here! All of the top 200 skaters. **** Welcome to the initial set of the top 200 skaters to own in your salary cap league. Well, for a salary league that hopefully closely resembles yours. This isn’t meant to be a be-all and end-all rating system for you [...]
Steve Laidlaw checking in here for a pinch-hit appearance for Cam Robinson. I am happy to see the site is still running smoothly, though I am not surprised. It’s in great hands! For those of you unaware, I put the “ambling” in Ramblings so strap yourself in for a long one today. * [...]
The rumours of Justin Faulk being traded have been around for a couple years now. Lately, there was a report that Anaheim had a trade in the works that included Ondrej Kase, but that never materialized for one reason or another. On Tuesday morning, there were some breadcrumbs to follow – “Faulk is healthy [...]
The FREE Dobbernomics 2019-20 game has opened for registration. Take on the world - show us your fantasy hockey skills and win one of a dozen prizes! Dobbernomics - where the stock market meets fantasy hockey - is completely free to play. Set up a league, get your friends into it, kick their [...]
This week we’ll talk about a few defensemen that you should be targeting in your fantasy hockey drafts. Follow me on Twitter @BrennanDeSouza and let me know your thoughts! P.K. Subban The Nashville Predators had the worst power-play success rate in the league last year; they scored on just 12.9% of their opportunities. [...]
I guess I should start sending out my I’m Sorry I Was Wrong holiday cards right now. More than once over the course of the summer, I stated in these Ramblings I thought both Quinn Hughes and Cale Makar would be eased into the top power-play role, with their respective coaches not opting for [...]
So we have finally concluded our summer series and now our focus turns to the draft table in earnest. Our summer series highlighted players who were excellent value, or extreme disappointments on draft day in 2018-19, but as we turn to 2019-20 our goal is to grab the draft steals and avoid the busts. [...]
Last week in the forum, someone had asked about the L.A. Kings. Specifically, about whether we are going to get the real Drew Doughty and Jonathan Quick this season. That got me thinking quite a bit. Doughty’s season last year was the real Doughty. So why do so many people keep expecting more out [...]
The Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast features 31 flavours this week, as Elan and Brian visit every NHL city to breathlessly offer at least one fantasy take based on pre-season permutations, and decide whether or not to accordingly alter their Almanac projections. Our 2019-20 NHL Audio Almanac + Projections, by the way, is [...]
