It was a huge 13-game slate in the NHL last night. After the last month or so where we had a lot of make-up games, and thus had a lot of reasonable nights of five, six, or seven games, it was a reminder of how the NHL usually works up their schedule: a couple games [...]
We had just two games in the NHL on Wednesday night so it’s a good time to go through some trade targets for the upcoming trade deadline. Rather than just list guys that may be on the move, though, it’s worth looking at what gets left behind if those players get moved. It is nice [...]
The New York Islanders were in action on Monday night, hosting Colorado. The team has gone through some brutal stretches this year, starting with that circus road trip to open the season. They didn’t play a home game until November 20th, and then went through an extensive COVID outbreak. Since Christmas, the team has gone [...]
There wasn’t a lot of significant NHL news yesterday so it may be a good time to take a look back on things. This time, let’s look at some preseason predictions, how they’ve gone so far, and whether the ones that haven’t panned out have any hope of doing so over the next couple of [...]
We have rounded into March and that means the push towards the end of the regular season has begun in earnest. We have something like 60 days left in the regular season and teams have anywhere from 27-33 games left to play. There will be some teams – Islanders, Wild, Lightning Flames – that are [...]
Just in yesterday’s Ramblings I discussed how Elvis Merzilikins had re-joined the Columbus Blue Jackets and could be ready to make a return. Well, that didn’t really happen as he was put on the injured reserve on Thursday morning. It has been seven days since his last game and this was about clearing some room [...]
There was some awful news that came from the Toronto Maple Leafs and General Manager Kyle Dubas early on Wednesday morning. It was concerning one of their top prospects in Rodion Amirov. The news was shared by Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff, though there would be more reports throughout the day discussing this: https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1496485551293280263 Honestly, [...]
Vladimir Tarasenko missed a game over the weekend and with his recent, lengthy injury that saw him miss most of last year and much of the year before, there are always concerns. Those concerns were alleviated on Monday as he was at practice and coach Berube said they expect him to play on Tuesday night [...]
The big news from Wednesday was that Claude Giroux announced he is going to discuss his future with Philadelphia Flyers GM Chuck Fletcher. The 34-year-old center is a free agent after the season and the Flyers are not making the playoffs. This is going to be a talk about trade vs. finish the season vs. [...]
There was a very significant trade on Monday as Tyler Toffoli was traded to the Calgary Flames. Going the other way is Tyler Pitlick, a first-round pick, a fifth-round pick, and prospect Emil Heineman. His Dobber Prospects profile can be viewed here. Dobber wrote about the trade yesterday and readers can check out his column [...]
