The 2025–26 season is shaping up as a test case for how different kinds of young talent translate in fantasy hockey. Connor Bedard has already proven he can drive play on a weak Chicago roster, piling up elite per-60 production despite a below-average shooting percentage and limited support. Matvei Michkov enters Philadelphia with a chance [...]
Anthony Stolarz and the Toronto Maple Leafs finalized a four year, $15 million-dollar extension that carries a $3.75 million-dollar cap hit through the 2029-30 season. The agreement provides cost certainty at a position that has often been an issue for the club. At the age of 31, Stolarz is coming off the best season of [...]
Welcome back to another edition of the Roos Lets Loose monthly mailbag, where I answer your fantasy hockey questions by giving advice that should be useful to all poolies even if they don’t own the specific players being discussed. As a reminder, if you want your fantasy hockey question(s) answered in the next mailbag, check [...]
Checking the news Thursday morning, I saw that the Carolina Hurricanes signed defenceman Oliver Kylington to a professional tryout (as well as forward Givani Smith). Kylington played just 19 games between Colorado and Anaheim last season, totaling five points. He sustained an upper-body injury at the end of November and did not return until early [...]
A reminder that the 2025-26 Dobber Hockey Fantasy Guide is all finished and ready for purchase in the Dobber Shop! Whether fantasy hockey fans are looking for projections, team-by-team breakdowns, sleepers or busts, category-specific options, or a whole lot more, it is all here in this Guide, and it’s updated through the offseason and training [...]
It’s time for a staple poll where you decide which players will hit the all-important point-per-game mark for the first time in the upcoming season. If past seasons are any indication, it is fewer than you might expect, as in 2023-24 only five of the 38 players who scored at a point-per-game rate while appearing [...]
Welcome to the 2025-26 season, we’re already trying to get ahead of the game here by getting rankings out for the fall, as most cap leagues have a keeper component and you can make trades through the summer. Getting on top of planning for next season now can have a big impact on staying ahead [...]
Today we will continue our series addressing some of the biggest questions facing each Eastern Conference team this offseason. This column will mark the halfway point of the conference, completing eight of the sixteen teams in alphabetical order – and funnily enough, it will also be the eight teams who missed the playoffs. We’ll dive [...]
Welcome back in! Welp. I don’t know about you guys, but my fantasy season came to an end last week. The guys took it pretty hard, but I didn’t address the group in the room after Sunday’s slate came to an end. These guys are professionals, after all.Kidding aside, I’m in the third-place matchup now [...]
The big news from Thursday was that the Philadelphia Flyers fired Head Coach John Tortorella. Whether he was fired or whether he stepped down, sources vary, but the end result is the same in that his tenure with Philadelphia has come to an end. I wrote a bit about the change behind the bench yesterday. [...]
