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Ramblings: Tkachuk Returning; Matthews and Stone Also Return; Heaters for Chychrun, Hagel, Vasilevskiy, and Samuelsson Continue – November 27

By |2025-11-27T07:24:52-05:00November 27th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Brady Tkachuk announced that he will be ready to return to game action on Friday, skating his first game in over six weeks following surgery on his thumb. The Ottawa Senators managed to stay right in the thick of the playoff race without him, but look poised to take off with their captain back in [...]

Ramblings: Another Big Night for Tampa’s Top Line; Chychrun Continues Point Streak; Hot/Cold Starters by IPP – November 25

By |2025-11-25T06:09:30-05:00November 25th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Kirill Marchenko was not in the lineup for Columbus on Monday night, having pulled a muscle during morning skate, according to Brian Hedger. The team doesn’t seem to think it’ll be a long-term absence so consider him day-to-day for now, but we should get a clearer update in the next day or two. Columbus ended [...]

Ramblings: Four Points for Frank; Fantilli Lights Lamp Twice; Bobrovsky and Sorokin Post Shutouts; Paul Returns for Tampa Bay – November 21

By |2025-11-21T07:32:57-05:00November 21st, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Tampa Bay Lightning got some good injury news as forward Nick Paul was in the lineup on Thursday night with the team home to New Jersey. Paul had been recovering from a surgery on his wrist and had yet to play this season. He started the game on the second line with Brayden Point [...]

Ramblings: Updates on Josi and Luostarainen; Assist Rates for Dahlin, Hedman, and Harley – November 20

By |2025-11-20T06:53:10-05:00November 20th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Nashville Predators reporter Alex Daugherty had video of defenceman Roman Josi participating in team practice on Wednesday following their return from Europe. Josi has missed four weeks with an upper-body injury but indications are that he may be ready to go in the next few days, if not next week. A great sign for a [...]

Ramblings: Big Nights for Seth Jones and Sam Reinhart; Goals and Expected Goals So Far; Utah’s Upcoming Schedule – November 18

By |2025-11-18T05:54:00-05:00November 18th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

A bit of good news/bad news on the injury front for the Buffalo Sabres. While there is still no official diagnosis or timeline for defenceman Michael Kesselring, reporter Paul Hamilton tweeted that both Jason Zucker and Josh Norris are considered day-to-day now. Norris played the season opener and then suffered an upper-body injury while Zucker [...]

Ramblings: Robertson’s Star Shines in Montreal; Reinhart Keeps Filling the Net; Stützle Plays Hero – November 14

By |2025-11-14T05:49:00-05:00November 14th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Early on Thursday, Bruce Garrioch reported that Ottawa Senators forward Shane Pinto had signed a four-year contract extension. The new deal has a $7.5-million average annual value and will carry Pinto until his age-30 season when he’ll be able to sign another contract, supposing that this one goes well. As long as Pinto keeps doing [...]

Ramblings: Demko Injured; Four-Point Panarin; Shot Distance Faced and Binnington, Lyon, and Wolf – November 13

By |2025-11-13T07:53:25-05:00November 13th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Going into the season, one of the biggest stories for the Vancouver Canucks revolved around the health of goaltender Thatcher Demko. He missed a large chunk of the 2024-25 season and looked to be ready to go in 2025-26, but after missing games over the weekend, and leaving Tuesday night’s game after the first period, [...]

Ramblings: Nugent-Hopkins and Kulich Injured; Shot Volume Problems for Nelson, Stankoven, and Forsberg – November 11

By |2025-11-11T04:25:31-05:00November 11th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The New York Rangers got some good news on Monday night as Vincent Trocheck was back in the lineup for the first time since the third day of the season, having missed four weeks with an upper-body injury. He was back on the second line with Artemi Panarin but is not yet back on the [...]

Ramblings: Updates on Kane and Zuccarello; Geekie Up To 10 Goals; Boldy Tallies Twice – November 7

By |2025-11-07T07:30:22-05:00November 7th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Patrick Kane was at Detroit’s practice on Thursday, according to Helene St. James. Kane has missed the last three weeks with an upper-body injury but may be ready to go soon as he was also skating in his usual second-line spot next to Marco Kasper and Alex DeBrincat. * Mats Zuccarello was not in the [...]

Ramblings: Nylander Hits 20 Points; Buy, Sell, or Hold Artemi Panarin, Quinn Hughes, and Andrei Vasilevskiy – November 6

By |2025-11-06T04:42:19-05:00November 6th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Pittsburgh Penguins announced that forward Justin Brazeau and goaltender Tristan Jarry will be out for four weeks and three weeks, respectively, with upper- and lower-body injuries, respectively. Both are a big part of the great start that the Penguins have had and are a loss for the team. My suspicion is there will be [...]

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