Welcome to the Thursday ramblings. Yay With teams beginning to finalize their roster let me look at the more notable (for sleeper potential) names remaining: Anaheim Troy Terry – Without Corey Perry for five months, and Patrick Eaves still hurt, Terry has taken the top spot with Getzlaf and Rakell for [...]
*** Storytime: In 2016, the (then) DobberProspects writers team held a prospects draft in a dynasty league. The league continues to evolve but it remains a cap league where every penny counts, making prospects on ELCs incredibly valuable. For this reason, there was lots of variation on draft day. Some of us wanted [...]
Welcome to Thursday’s ramblings; let us see what players have been cut of note for poolies! If a team is not mentioned it is because they did not list the cuts when I was making this. Arizona Tyler Steenbergen Chalk me up as a person who was surprised Steenbergen did [...]
This is the second straight Rookie Tournament that Anaheim has gone 3-0. They outscored their opponents 21-9 and out of the 24 players on the roster, 19 of them had at least one point. Max Comtois led the charge with four goals and seven point while Sam Steel and Hunter Drew co-led the team [...]
With the world akimbo after the Erik Karlsson news dropped on Thursday afternoon, most were focused on the implication to the NHL rosters. However, there were a handful of prospects that exchanged organizations and we’ll take a look at those players here now. The Senators somehow decided it was a good idea to [...]
Note: WOW this graphic is WAAAAY better than Jokke's graphics! Welcome to the new new and improved Thursday prospect ramblings, or the same ones as always but now I am back gearing up for the fantasy hockey year! I am going to go over the last 16 teams (alphabetically) and pick a prospect [...]
Hockey is back! I know hockey fans in North America are always saying “Is it October yet?” but in Europe, the hockey season is ongoing already. The Champions Hockey League started on August 30th (my recap of the first week can be found from here), and the first major national league to start their [...]
*** September 9th 2018. There were two separate games this afternoon between the Canadiens and the Maple Leafs’ rookies in Laval, Québec. The first one lasted 15 minutes and showed a dominant, confident, skilled and also intimidating Toronto team. The power play was producing, thanks in good part to players like Timothy Liljegren, Rasmus Sandin, [...]
September 8th 2018 – It was an interesting rookies showdown between the Sens and Leafs this afternoon in Laval, Québec. The first half of the game was punctuated by middle zone turnovers and tight defence when all a sudden this matchup turned into an offensive blast with great passing plays and high pace transitions. [...]
image courtesy of The Buffalo News *** Last week I took a scroll through the long Fantrax player list of rookies, and hand-picked some under-owned players that weren't being drafted nearly high enough for their current status. This was a fun exercise and got fun feedback from readers, so this week I'm going out [...]
