After missing a couple games due to illness, Jordan Kyrou was back in the lineup for St. Louis on Monday night. This is a big deal for the Blues because while they have good forward depth, the third line has been struggling at times over the last month. He helps stabilize that line a bit, [...]
The readers who’ve read my Ramblings for at least a few years now, or followed me on social media, know that one thing I constantly harp on is cross-checking. The simple explanation is like this: there are hundreds of cross-checks every night in the NHL of varying levels of force, and only a handful will [...]
The Ottawa Senators are an interesting team here down the stretch. They just got Drake Batherson back over the weekend, but Thomas Chabot looks to be out for the balance of the season. They may be getting some rookie reinforcements – more on that in a minute – but still have a bevy of depth [...]
It has been a very rough season in net for Joonas Korpisalo, posting just an .877 save percentage in 22 games (17 starts) on the year. That kind of play would be acceptable on the penalty kill, not as an overall average. There seems to be a reason for that, as the Columbus Blue Jackets [...]
The trade of Artturi Lehkonen to Colorado serves a few purposes for them. In the short-term, it gives them someone to slot on the second line in the absence of Gabriel Landeskog. Not that they’re in a fight for a playoff spot or anything, but it gives a bit of security in case Calgary makes [...]
It has been quite the week in the NHL as far as trades are concerned, even if the NHL’s trade deadline day itself wasn’t as busy as in some recent seasons. There were a handful of trades over the weekend, a couple of them significant like Claude Giroux heading to Florida, Hampus Lindholm off to [...]
There has been some heating of the trading hot stove of late, particularly over in Colorado. It wouldn’t be long before the rest of the playoff teams started getting things going of their own, and the New York Rangers did exactly that. They had gutted their right-wing depth over the years by trading Pavel Buchnevich [...]
One of the big trade chips that the Montreal Canadiens had to offer – other than Tyler Toffoli, apparently – was defenceman Ben Chiarot. Notice that we said “was” and that’s because the Florida Panthers bolstered their blue line for the upcoming playoff run by trading for the pending free agent, just hours after trading [...]
The Colorado Avalanche have started to get the trade deadline in motion of late. They traded for Josh Manson on Monday, and on Tuesday followed that up by trading Tyson Jost. The 24-year-old has appeared in over 300 regular season games for the Avalanche but seemed to have plateaued as a bottom-6 piece, and so [...]
We had just one game in the NHL on Monday night and it was the Arizona Coyotes heading into Ottawa to face the Senators. That is about as uninteresting as it can get at this point of the season, though there aren’t many games that are uninteresting from a fantasy perspective. Lawson Crouse tallied his [...]
