We had our first real barn-burner of the Stanley Cup Final as the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens traded goals to get us a 2-2 game and our first overtime. Josh Anderson started the scoring, finishing a beautiful feed from Nick Suzuki, while Pat Maroon tied the game with just over six minutes left [...]
It has been a couple of down years in a row now for Viktor Arvidsson and the Nashville Predators are further away from the Stanley Cup now than they have been since their Cup run a few years ago. This team was going to have to make some moves this offseason, and it started on [...]
One of the big stories of the 2021 season was the fact that Jonathan Toews had to take the entire season off for an undisclosed health issue. When something like that happens, it’s clearly something more than just a broken leg or torn rotator cuff. On Wednesday, he provided some clarity on this: https://twitter.com/JonathanToews/status/1410244274986303488 I [...]
A little bit down these Ramblings, we’ll talk about Clayton Keller, his 2021 season, and what he could bring next year. In that discussion is the fact that Arizona has not been a great scoring team for years now, and don’t look like they’ll be a high-scoring team anytime soon. Compounding that problem is they [...]
Montreal and Vegas played a game that looked like most of the games this series: tight-checking, low-scoring, and on a knife’s edge of mistakes. The Habs were able to hold on to a 2-1 lead for a large chunk of the night, but a third-period goal sent it to overtime again. Alec Martinez was able [...]
The Seattle Kraken have named their first head coach. For months now, it was expected to be Rick Tocchet, but those rumours seemed to have fallen apart over the last few days. New names emerged this week, and today the team announced that Dave Hakstol will be the franchise’s first bench boss. What does this [...]
Carl Gunnarsson has retired from the NHL after 12 seasons. He always seemed kind of underrated, but he generally brought really good defence to the middle of any blue line. He was a reliable part of many successful Blues teams, including the Cup winner in 2019. He retires at the age of 34 with over [...]
As the expansion draft approaches, there are a handful of questions I keep coming back to. I keep asking myself what lessons the GMs have learned from Vegas, what the flat cap might do to prices, how quickly Seattle could possibly contend, and more. As far as individual teams go, there are few more interesting [...]
I think there’s a lesson being taught to fantasy owners these playoffs that we need to keep in mind each and every fantasy season: we are at the mercy of individual coaches, the minutes they give players, and the combinations they use them in. I am reminded of this as I sit here and contemplate [...]
This is a big offseason for the Carolina Hurricanes for a number of reasons. First up is just the magnitude of their UFAs/RFAs. They have all three goalies up for contracts – Mrazek and Reimer as UFA and Nedeljkovic as RFA – Jake Bean as an RFA, Andrei Svechnikov as an RFA, as well as [...]
