On top of a bunch of college signings making their debuts this week, Oliver Kapanen is joining the Montreal Canadiens as the team enters the final couple weeks of the regular season. Kapanen started the season with the Habs but was sent back to the Swedish Hockey League after a dozen games. He posted 35 [...]
Ahead of their game on Monday night in Philadelphia, the Nashville Predators announced forwards Jonathan Marchessault and Colton Sissons are day-to-day and week-to-week, respectively, according to the team. While it certainly looks as if Marchessault shouldn’t be out too long, we are at the point of the season where a ‘week-to-week’ designation could mean the [...]
The big news from Thursday was that the Philadelphia Flyers fired Head Coach John Tortorella. Whether he was fired or whether he stepped down, sources vary, but the end result is the same in that his tenure with Philadelphia has come to an end. I wrote a bit about the change behind the bench yesterday. [...]
The Philadelphia Flyers had been on a steady slide in the second half of the season. Up until New Year’s Day, the team had a .500 points percentage and sat just two points out of a playoff spot. Since that point, their .386 points percentage was fourth-worst in the league and they went into Thursday [...]
It was never ideal that the Edmonton Oilers announced that both Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid would miss a week (or more) with injuries. While it does appear that McDavid is a little ways off from returning to action, there was some good news to come down on Wednesday as the Oilers announced that Draisaitl [...]
Both Elias Pettersson (the forward) and Nils Hoglander were not in the lineup for the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night, and the team said that both will be out of the lineup for the rest of the road trip, so the next three games at least. It is a tough blow for a team fighting [...]
In a bit of non-fantasy news, CBA discussions are set to start soon between the NHL and the Players’ Association. Given the sharply-rising cap, the pending Olympics, the likelihood of fiscal issues in both America and Canada over the coming years, and a lot more, these negotiations will have a lot to cover. There shouldn’t [...]
One of the more intriguing storylines all season was the health of Colorado Avalanche winer Gabriel Landeskog. He has slowly been making his way back from a knee cartilage transplant surgery, and at times it seemed as if his career may be over. There was some very good news from him and the team on [...]
Injury issues for the New Jersey Devils had really been piling up and there is always hope things aren’t as bad as they seem. There had been some rumblings (not Ramblings!) that Devils defenceman Dougie Hamilton would be out for at least the rest of the regular season with his lower-body injury, though, and that [...]
When The New York Rangers brought in goalie Jonathan Quick, it was very much an open question as to the success he would find with his third team. After posting 27 wins in 43 starts across 1.75 seasons, boasting a .904 save percentage along the way, the team has re-signed Quick to a one-year extension [...]
