All told, it wasn’t a bad start to Jonas Johansson’s Tampa Bay tenure with a .925 save percentage (including two shutouts) in his first seven games. That has gone very south very quickly, though, as he’s posted an .861 save percentage in his last five outings, allowing at least four goals in all of them. [...]
Something that had been a bit confounding – maybe a lot confounding – about the Calgary Flames is their utter refusal to even bother giving minor league goalie Dustin Wolf a shot at the NHL level. Wolf, the back-to-back goalie of the year in the AHL, had a .924 save percentage in the AHL so [...]
The Minnesota Wild made some adjustments to their blueline on Wednesday by trading Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks, then turning around and getting Zach Bogosian from Tampa Bay. I wrote up a bit on the Addison trade already so go check that out if you haven’t already. I will say that it’s one [...]
In a surprising move, the Minnesota Wild have traded defenseman Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks in exchange for a sixth-round pick in 2026 and minor leaguer Adam Raska. Addison has zero goals and five assists in 12 games for the Wild this season, had seen his ice time decline over his recent outings, [...]
Even with a fantastic start to the season, there is cause for concern in New Jersey as Nico Hischier appeared to suffer a concussion in a game against Buffalo, and he’s not played in over a week. To make matters worse, Jack Hughes suffered an upper-body injury and missed time over the weekend. On the [...]
Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. I am covering for Ian today as he had a couple of prior commitments, but he’ll be back in his usual spot next weekend. The big news out of Minnesota over the last couple days was the move of Marco Rossi to the top line, with Matt Boldy coming along with him, [...]
Two big pieces of news came down on Wednesday though neither are directly related to this fantasy season. Kind of. First off, Nicklas Backstrom announced he’s stepping away from the team for injury reasons, which seems pretty clearly to be that his hip hasn’t responded as he had hoped post-surgery. He did not look like [...]
An interesting wrinkle with Winnipeg’s lineup on Monday night was that Cole Perfetti was moved to the top power play unit with Nikolaj Ehlers being bumped down. The top PP unit had three goals in eight games, which isn’t awful, but they had gone three straight contests without tallying. This was the change they decided [...]
The big news from Thursday was that Ottawa forward Shane Pinto will be suspended for half the regular season – 41 games – for a violation related to gambling but unrelated to gambling on the NHL. We will have to see what happens over the next few days (he said he’s not appealing but I’ll [...]
It was a successful first effort for the NHL with its Frozen Frenzy on Tuesday night. Despite some hiccups in Columbus, or with a couple production issues, it seemed to have gone off without a hitch. It would have been nice if they hadn’t scheduled it for the first day of the NBA season but [...]
