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Rambling about Versteeg, Desharnais, Condon, Ullmark, a couple of hot AHL prospects and more... *** Another reason to love Tampa Bay – if their key guys start blowing it, they have such amazing depth that they can just create other key guys. Triplets aren’t scoring? Well, how about Vladislav Namestnikov. Ben Bishop not inspiring? Well [...]

Rambling about Jimmy Hayes, Ward, Larkin, Trocheck, Zucker, Toffoli, Getzlaf, Jagr and more... *** The Boston – Arizona game was a tale of two market corrections. Giving up all six goals, Mike Smith’s numbers are now in line with where we’d expect them at season’s end. A .500 record (4-3-1 is .500 in my books) [...]

Rambling about Dubnyk, Perreault, Gaudreau, Pouliot, Weise, Chris Stewart and a whole lot more... *** Devan Dubnyk isn’t off to the greatest start. The fact that he’s getting a lot of wins is a statement on the team and not his play. However, he did get the shutout Saturday. But apparently he felt something “pop” [...]

Rambling about a rumored Atkinson trade, plus Galchenyuk, Crosby, Kuznetsov, Lee, Ramo and tons more... *** Montreal has won seven games in a row to open the season. And they play Buffalo and Toronto next. Um… Columbus has lost seven games in a row to open the season. * The Habs are getting the goals [...]

Rambling about the stickability of some of the current top scorers, as well as some goalies and a secret PIM sleeper... *** There is a list of players who are making fantasy owners very worried. As of early Saturday, that list included Sidney Crosby, Ryan Getzlaf, Connor McDavid, Patrick Sharp, Sergei Bobrovsky and Tuukka Rask. [...]

  Rambling about Gagner, Larkin, Stralman, Stamkos, Crosby, Parayko and tons more... *** Sam Gagner finally got into the lineup and picked up an assist and was the third star. His PP time was secondary, but I’m still optimistic on his having a career year. Even without Claude Giroux on his line, I think a [...]