Easily the biggest story on Saturday night was the Boston batterings. I was in theScore newsroom all evening covering the NHL and the barbarism in Boston completely dominated my night. Here's how I covered Shawn Thornton's mugging of Brooks Orpik, Loui Eriksson's latest concussion (ugh), and James Neal's knee to the head of Brad [...]
It looks like the Columbus Blue Jackets are going to run with Curtis McElhinney while Sergei Bobrovsky is out of action and he got off to a decent start on Friday night. McElhinney pitched a 20-save shutout and has a respectable .932 save percentage in nine games this season. That’s all well and good, but [...]
After a year off due to the epic millionaire vs. billionaire battle, Dobber's Midseason Guide is back!
Montreal is on a roll and look for that to continue against Buffalo
Henrik Lundqvist has signed a seven-year extension worth $59.5 million * Andrej Sekera was back in the lineup for the Hurricanes and has truly emerged as their go-to PP guy. He played 24:21 with 4:41 on the PP and scored his career-high sixth goal. Other than his fragility, there is no reason why he shouldn't [...]
This week, the Eastern Edge takes a look at a couple of Canadiens who are heating up and two Blue Jackets who are getting increased responsibilities.
The Winnipeg Jets beat the New York Rangers 5-2 on Monday likely putting an end to the Cam Talbot experiment by Alain Vigneault. Talbot started his second straight game for New York, but never really was a realistic threat of vulturing starts away from Henrik Lundqvist in the long-term. Expect Lundqvist to regain his regular [...]
Toronto might be struggling but the top line is still producing
Steve Downie is third on the Philadelphia Flyers in scoring. Say what? * The guy who is third in scoring on the Buffalo Sabres has nine points. Huh? * Brad Richards is having a weak season, as I had projected. But he's still leading the Rangers in scoring. Wha? * And just like that, Evgeni [...]
The Contrarian looks at buy low options, and some false buy low options.
