Okay there was a lot of significant injury/player news to come down on Wednesday so let’s get right to it. The first big note was the return of Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty to the team’s lineup as they went into Florida to face the Panthers. It was Doughty’s first regular season game of [...]
There was a very interesting trade on Monday afternoon, if one nowhere near the size of the Mikko Rantanen trade from a few days ago. Injuries on the blue line have forced the New York Islanders to look outside the organization for some help, and they did that by acquiring Scott Perunovich from St. Louis [...]
With the news that defenceman Noah Dobson is week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the New York Islanders were short their best puck-moving defenceman and a power-play quarterback. The team is a ways out of the playoff race, but a sustained hot streak could get them within striking distance, so they decided to bolster their blue [...]
While the extent of the injury to New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom hasn’t been made official yet by the team, Kevin Weekes reported that it is not as serious as it looked, but that it is putting Markstrom’s participation in the Four Nations Cup in peril. That would indicate that it will likely be [...]
It was a definite good news/bad news situation for New Jersey as they hosted Boston on Wednesday night. The Devils managed a convincing 5-1 win over the Bruins, thanks in large part to a power play that came alive for three power play goals. The bad news was that goaltender Jacob Markstrom was injured early [...]
The NHL Department Player of Safety rendered their judgments on Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and Vancouver’s Tyler Myers after the incidents over the weekend at the end of the game that saw both players give cross-checks to the head of an opponent: Both players have been suspended for three games. Edmonton starts a six-game homestand on [...]
It has been over 14 months since defenceman John Klingberg last played in the NHL. The 32-year-old blue liner has been out for over a year due to a hip resurfacing surgery, which is no small matter for hockey players his age. There had been rumblings that he was looking to make a return sometime [...]
The 2024 Dobber Hockey Midseason Guide has been released! There is rest-of-year outlooks, prospect updates (including those that may appear before the end of the regular season), which players to keep an eye on for the Trade Deadline, advanced statistics, and a whole lot more. A lot of work from the entire Dobber team went [...]
Injured Colorado Avalanche winger Valeri Nichushkin was skating in a non-contact jersey earlier this week and there was some hope that maybe he would return to game action in relatively short order. That does not appear to be the case as the team provided and update on his status and we shouldn’t expect him back [...]
Toronto had Steven Lorentz skating on the top line with Auston Matthews in practice yesterday. We would normally shrug that aside as a filler-type thing, but Matthew Knies and Bobby McMann were both practicing while Max Pacioretty seems to be headed for a healthy scratch. This won’t last, but it’s notable that Craig Berube is [...]
