Mathew Barzal returned to the lineup after missing six weeks with an upper-body injury. There was certainly rust to shake off as some of his passes lacked the quality we’ve come to expect from him. Through roughly 21 minutes of action, Barzal posted two shots, two hits, four faceoff wins and was a minus-2. He [...]
Colorado finally made a big move to address their goaltending woes. On Monday afternoon, the Avalanche sent Alexandar Georgiev and Nikolai Kovalenko to San Jose in exchange for Mackenzie Blackwood and Givani Smith. The Avalanche also gave up a second-round pick in next year’s draft, as shown below. https://twitter.com/Avalanche/status/1866215561056710678 Givani Smith is a physical player [...]
Sincerest sympathies to anyone who trusted the usually reliable Jonathan Quick for a spot start on Sunday. After allowing just four goals across his first five outings, Quick has allowed 15 in his last three. Igor Shesterkin didn’t dress for the game because his wife was in labour, but I imagine he’ll be available for [...]
Jake DeBrusk had a sensational Sunday, scoring the overtime winner against Detroit to complete the second hat trick of his career. The 28-year-old winger started heating up after J.T. Miller took a leave of absence on November 19th, racking up nine points in six games since then. Notably, four of those points came with the [...]
On Sunday, the Blues fired head coach Drew Bannister and replaced him with Jim Montgomery – who the Bruins had fired five days ago. Read Ian’s take on the fantasy implications of this move here. ~ Fortunately, the lower-body injury which kept Kirill Kaprizov out of Saturday’s clash with Calgary doesn’t seem serious. He’s [...]
Carolina, who averages the most shots for and the fewest against, experienced a rarity on Sunday as they were outshout by the Blues. Still, they pulled out a 4-1 victory over St. Louis. Pyotr Kochetkov had a strong showing, stopping 29 of the 30 shots he faced. Kochetkov has been better when busy this season. [...]
With today being Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, we have an early game scheduled for 12:30 PM EST between the Habs and Sabres, so make sure to set your lineups in advance! ~ Valeri Nichushkin will be back in the lineup this week, set to make his season debut on [...]
Battle of New York. Battle of top-tier Russian netminders. Ilya Sorokin didn’t come away with the best numbers, but he made a bunch of big saves and fell victim to a bit of bad luck. This was the first time this season – a seven-game span – that he allowed more than three goals. Igor [...]
Hi friends, it’s Brennan filling in for the handsome and talented Alex MacLean today, but fear not, he should be back next week. Let’s get right into Tuesday’s action! The Bruins-Flyers game featured two goaltenders with hideous numbers to start the year. Joonas Korpisalo and his .850 SV% + 4.57 GAA went up against Samuel [...]
Celebrating a birthday that equates his age with his jersey number, Leon Draisaitl had a hand in all of Edmonton’s goals en route to a 3-2 overtime victory over the Red Wings. #29 had a slow start to the season, posting just one point in his first three outings, but has since rebounded with nine [...]
