Excuse us while we go through some site upgrades over the next three weeks. Funky things like that annoying, weird 'A' between lines, the RSS feed, sporadic (but thankfully short) downtimes will happen. I'm hoping all sites upgraded before November. * Jacob Markstrom keeps getting starts for Florida, but he keeps piling up losses. He's [...]
This week, the Eastern Edge looks at a pair of Red Wings in Stephen Weiss and Justin Abdelkader, as well as Buffalo's Cody Hodgson.
* In a slightly surprising move, James Reimer gets the start tonight for Toronto. Jonathan Bernier had been on a nice run, but he did give up five goals on Saturday. James van Riemsdyk is questionable with an unspecified injury. * Not all that shocking, but it appears Chris Pronger's playing days [...]
The following ramblings are in high-Dobbernition. If you click on a player name, you are taken to his profile for the full lowdown on recent line combos, stats and news (with links). * I've always felt that Mathieu Perreault had scoring-line potential, but some Washington fans and insiders insisted that he was a hustling checker [...]
The Contararian begs you to ask yourself honestly: are you a pigeon?
The Philadelphia Flyers can’t score. They have six goals in five games and Friday’s 2-1 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes showed no signs that their lack of production would improve anytime soon. Both Scott Hartnell and Vincent Lecavalier left the game with injuries and according to Paul Holmgren they will each miss at least a [...]
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Let's start in Boston, where the Colorado Avalanche and netminder J.S. Giguere shutout the Boston Bruins to improve to 4-0-0. The Avalanche are easily the biggest surprise of the 2013-14 regular season so far, racking up points against pretty good teams (the Ducks, Bruins, Maple Leafs in particular). Colorado's early season success [...]
Gates here - "Holding Court" made its series debut at Fantrax today. The revised title features DobberHockey senior writers Rick Roos and Eric Daoust as they present opposing arguments on whether to keep, trade or drop the two players in question. With everything on the table, I give a final verdict on each case. Give [...]
Eastern Edge looks at some gems available on the waiver wire early in the season.
