Give a warm round of applause to everyone’s favourite team, your 2025 Stanley Cup Champions, the Florida Panthers! In convincing fashion, they beat Edmonton 5-1, to take the series in six. The Panthers are going to be looking to run things back next year, and not in the way that the Maple Leafs do. This [...]
The Stanley Cup Final may still be raging, but for 15 teams in the Eastern Conference, the offseason has already begun. This won’t be your typical summer of tweaks, fine-tuning and depth signings. What we are already witnessing across the East is a series of philosophical shifts - eras ending, long-held team-building models shattering and [...]
As teams did for the Four Nations Face-Off, individual countries participating in the men’s ice hockey portion of the 2026 Olympic Games in Italy named their first six roster spots. We won’t dig into every team’s decisions, but there were some notable changes made worth highlighting. One country that didn’t change anything was Finland, naming [...]
Finding value in restricted free agency can be the difference between building a good roster and constructing a great one, especially in today’s NHL cap world. While the spotlight often shines on blockbuster RFAs poised for big paydays, there’s a secondary tier of players flying under the radar (or not) who could deliver strong on-ice [...]
In today’s Ramblings, we’ll discuss players who had disappointing regular seasons, and then we’ll evaluate their bounce-back potential for the upcoming campaign. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen - Buffalo Sabres - G The 2023-24 campaign was UPL’s first crack at carrying a heavy workload and he excelled, posting a 2.57 GAA and .910 SV% through 54 games. Unfortunately, [...]
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, Brennan Des, and Dobber — The 19th annual Fantasy Prospects Report is now available! Pick up yours at Dobber Sports so that you can get ahead [...]
Florida 5, Edmonton 2 (Panthers lead Stanley Cup Final 3-2) Brad Marchand continues to add to his legend. With two goals in the Panthers’ Game 5 victory, Marchand has scored six of his 10 playoff goals in the Stanley Cup Final. He now has 10 two-goal playoff games in his career, and he has joined [...]
Welcome back to The Journey, where we track the development of prospects as they excel in junior, make the NHL, and push towards stardom. **** This week, we are covering the week that was the 2025 NHL Draft Combine, held in Buffalo, where the buzz extended beyond on-ice drills to the crucial off-ice evaluations that shape draft [...]
Because one of the teams has a local connection to me, I'll give you Calder Cup updates as long as I can provide them on my Ramblings days. Game 1 in the Calder Cup Final went to double overtime, with Danila Klimovich breaking the deadlock to give the Abbotsford Canucks (Vancouver’s AHL affiliate) a 4-3 [...]
This week we are returning with part three of our playoff series review. In the last two articles we covered the teams that were eliminated in the first round (East here and West here). This week we are going to take a look at teams who were eliminated in the second round. This means Toronto, [...]
