The biggest beneficiary of the Brock Nelson trade has been Jean-Gabriel Pageau who is playing second line minutes and has five points in his first five games there. The linemate quality hasn’t really improved, as Anders Lee has been and still is his most frequent partner, while one of Simon Holmstrom or Anthony Duclair have [...]
It’s now time to dump your excess Penguins. To elaborate on that, Pittsburgh has the fewest games remaining on the schedule with only 15. They also have the eighth-heaviest workload in terms of opponent goals scored per game (3.04), meaning their goalies (who already only held a tenuous spot on fantasy rosters) are now likely [...]
The Predators and Penguins swung a deal that likely has both teams trying to shake things up for next year rather than any eyes on the playoffs this year, as both will likely miss. The Penguins are shipping out Michael Bunting and a 4th round pick for Nashville’s Tommy Novak and Luke Schenn. With Pittsburgh [...]
Keeping pace in the state of Florida, the Lighting have made a big move to acquire both Yanni Gourde, Oliver Bjorkstrand, and a 2026 5th round pick from the Seattle Kraken in exchange for firsts in 2026 and 2027, along with Toronto’s 2025 2nd round pick, and Michael Eyssimont. Seattle and Detroit both retained half [...]
The Florida Panthers have swung another goalie deal, acquiring Vitek Vanecek from the San Jose Sharks for minor league forward Patrick Giles. No other pieces were part of the deal and no salary was retained. The Panthers receive: Vanecek is an NHL goalie who hasn’t put up good numbers for two straight seasons, but looked [...]
Brad Marchand's week-to-week diagnosis looks like the final nail in the coffin for the Bruins, and it also means a trade for him is highly unlikely. There's some uncertainty to whether he will be back this season, and the Bruins would be foolish to rush him back for meaningless games. Georgii Merkulov has taken Marchand's [...]
Pavel Buchnevich has finally turned things around a little, with six points in his last four games, and eight in seven games since the calendar flipped to February. This comes right after I cut bait with him because I just couldn't wait for the possible turnaround this year. He has been very disappointing offensively, pacing [...]
Charlie McAvoy’s injury and subsequent health questions, in addition to Matthew Tkachuk getting banged up, Brady Tkachuk being unable to finish the game against Sweden, Shea Theodore being week-to-week, and other injuries piling up through the tournament makes me glad that the NHL already announced a plan to the return to the Olympics. Otherwise, we [...]
I must say, it's a lot less fun writing the Ramblings and checking your fantasy teams when there are no games on. Looking at the fantasy schedule that we have to deal with from the Four Nations break, games restart on the Saturday Feb 22nd, which means most leagues will have that weekend attached to [...]
Kirill Kaprizov is now scheduled to miss the next four weeks after undergoing surgery for a lower-body injury. Two of those weeks are covered by the break for the Four-Nations tournament, which is good news, meaning Kaprizov may only miss about two weeks, and less than 10 games. * Your top scorer of the night [...]
