Now that the Tampa Bay Lightning have won the Stanley Cup and completed not-so-socially-distanced celebrations back home, we’ve learned more about what ailed Steven Stamkos throughout the playoffs. According to GM Julien BriseBois, Stamkos underwent sports hernia surgery before the season pause. BriseBois stated that Stamkos’ rehab resulted in a “compensation” injury while he was [...]
We get to watch at least one more hockey game… until who knows when. Dallas 3, Tampa Bay 2 – 2OT (Tampa Bay leads series 3-2) Corey Perry might be your least favorite player on the Stars. Yet he’s the guy you can thank for ensuring that bubble hockey will continue with a Game 6 [...]
Nearly a calendar year after the 2019-20 season started, and nearly two months after bubble hockey began, the Stanley Cup may be awarded in less than 24 hours. Tampa Bay 5, Dallas 4 OT (Tampa Bay leads series 3-1) Kevin Shattenkirk played overtime hero in Game 4, scoring a power-play goal at 6:34 of overtime. [...]
It’s time to take the Dallas Stars seriously as a team that could legitimately win the Stanley Cup, led by their red-hot backup goalie. Dallas 4, Tampa Bay 1 (Dallas leads series 1-0) Anton Khudobin was the big story again. The Stars goalie stopped 35 of 36 shots he faced, including all 22 shots the [...]
According to Darren Dreger, contract talks between the St. Louis Blues and Alex Pietrangelo have broken off to the point that the Blues have told their star defenseman to pursue free agency. https://twitter.com/DarrenDreger/status/1307108220935245825 I had assumed that the Blues had viewed Pietrangelo as a true foundational piece, so I’m surprised that it’s gotten to this [...]
After some doubt about whether it was ever going to happen, the 2019-20 Stanley Cup playoffs are almost complete. For either the Tampa Bay Lightning or the Dallas Stars, life in the bubble for two months will all be worth it. Tampa’s win over the Islanders was expected, as 12 of 15 DobberHockey writers picked [...]
We now have a Stanley Cup Final, which gets going on Saturday. Lightning 2, Islanders 1 OT (Lightning win series 4-2) If you picked Anthony Cirelli in your overtime challenge, congratulations. Cirelli scored 13:18 into overtime to send Tampa Bay to the Stanley Cup Final. Here’s the goal, which didn’t look like it went in [...]
With the Stanley Cup Final now very close, we’ve had a chance to learn more about many players. Some of which deserve a bump in value, some of which need to be bumped down the rankings. Here are the Roto Rankings adjusted for September. Normally this is the month in which many drafts are taking [...]
After the first round of the playoffs (and maybe even before), the general consensus was that Colorado and Vegas were on a collision course to meet in the Western Conference Final. Now the Dallas Stars are only one win away from shoving both of those teams to the side and earning a ticket to the [...]
On Friday, the NHL formally announced the following schedule of offseason events: Tue Oct 6, 7 p.m. ET: 2020 NHL Draft, Round 1 Wed Oct 7, 11:30 a.m. ET: 2020 NHL Draft, Rounds 2-7 Fri Oct 9, 12 p.m. ET: NHL free agency begins The draft will be held virtually, of course. These aren’t the [...]
