Hockey Rambling

Dobber, Ian Gooding, Mike Clifford, Alex MacLean and Brennan DeSouza take turns providing daily ramblings. They cover a wide range of topics including the latest hockey developments as well as some deeper thoughts to help you with your fantasy hockey teams. You can be assured that when you wake up in the morning there will be a new rambling on the main page ready for you to indulge.

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Ramblings: Do You Be-Leaf? Toronto Forces Game 7! Matthews and Marner and More…

By Ian Gooding|2025-05-17T00:45:19-04:00May 17th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Finding obituary articles about the Leafs – particularly the Core 4 – was not particularly difficult to do following their Game 5 no-show. Yet for everyone who was ready to stick a fork into the Leafs, they still had one more game to play. And in that game, they were able to receive a stay [...]

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Ramblings: Hurricanes Move On, Jets Avoid Elimination, New Coaches in Vancouver and Philly (May 16)

By Ian Gooding|2025-05-16T01:36:12-04:00May 16th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

On Thursday, the top-seeded team in one conference was eliminated, while the top-seeded team in the other conference staved off elimination. Carolina 3, Washington 1 (Hurricanes win series 4-1) Andrei Svechnikov scored the game-winning goal with just 1:59 left in regulation to secure a spot for the Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final. https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1923191946534625330 Svechnikov’s [...]

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Ramblings: Kings Hire Holland; Canucks Hire Foote; Flyers Hire Tocchet; Changes in Shot Totals, Goal Scoring Distribution, and Peripheral Stats Like Hits and Blocks – May 15

By Michael Clifford|2025-05-15T07:44:32-04:00May 15th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Los Angeles Kings’ general manager search did not last long as they hired former Oilers boss Ken Holland to take over the direction of the team. Given Los Angeles’ struggles against Edmonton in the playoffs in recent memory, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I guess? The forward group is largely fine, so [...]

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Ramblings: Granlund Grounds the Jets; RFA Offersheets; Targeting Kasper, Buchnevich, and Others for Next Year (May 14)

By Alexander MacLean|2025-05-13T23:39:50-04:00May 14th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Miro Heiskanen was finally available for Dallas, and he played a lot less than his usual workload, generally taking short shifts, and showing the occasional uncharacteristic mishap. He’s not 100%, but he did provide some solid play on the whole, added an assist, and Dallas came out with the win in the end. That means [...]

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Ramblings: Hurricanes Push Capitals to Brink of Elimination; Preseason Projections for Jones, Clarke, Gostisbehere, Edvinsson, and More – May 13

By Michael Clifford|2025-05-13T03:20:13-04:00May 13th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Max Domi was fined $5 000 for his hit on Aleksander Barkov in the waning seconds of Game 4 on Sunday night. If nothing else, Game 5 should be a lot of fun because that fourth game saw Toronto start pushing back physically, so it’ll be interesting to see how Florida reacts to that. If [...]

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Ramblings: Rantanen’s Remarkable Run; Bobrovsky’s Second Shutout; Value from Sorokin & Zibanejad Next Year (May 12)

By Brennan Des|2025-05-12T00:56:57-04:00May 12th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Dallas 5, Winnipeg 2 (Stars lead series 2-1) Another heroic performance from Mikko Rantanen spurred the Stars to a Game 3 victory on Sunday. With three points, Rantanen took back top spot in the league’s postseason scoring race, leapfrogging Connor McDavid. It’s hard to articulate the outlandish run Rantanen is on right now. He has [...]

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Ramblings: Vegas Wins a Stunner, Andersen Blanks Capitals, Players that Didn’t Meet Expectations (May 11)

By Ian Gooding|2025-05-11T01:30:08-04:00May 11th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Let’s start with what was easily the more entertaining of the two games on Saturday. Just when you thought an ending to regulation couldn’t be as dramatic as Cole Perfetti in Game 7 of the first round, Reilly Smith came along in Game 3 and said “hold my beer.” Vegas 4, Edmonton 3 (Oilers lead [...]

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Ramblings: Panthers, Jets Bounce Back; Knies on the Rise, Players that Exceeded Expectations (May 10)

By Ian Gooding|2025-05-10T01:43:03-04:00May 10th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Florida 5, Toronto 4 (Leafs lead series 2-1) Brad Marchand scored the game-winning goal at 15:27 of the first overtime to give the Panthers a 5-4 win over Toronto in Game 3. The puck appeared to float off Morgan Rielly past Joseph Woll. https://twitter.com/HockeyDaily365/status/1921031965353885826 Marchand has now scored goals in back-to-back games, and he is [...]

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Ramblings: Caps Even Series With ‘Canes; Preseason Point Projections for LaCombe, Hutson, Kesselring, Vlasic, and More – May 9

By Michael Clifford|2025-05-09T07:38:56-04:00May 9th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Anaheim Ducks hired Joel Quenneville to be their next coach after firing Greg Cronin last month at the end of the regular season. I wrote about that hiring here. * Connor McMichael intercepted a puck in the neutral zone, sped past the Carolina defenders, and scored on Frederik Andersen to give the Washington Capitals [...]

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Ramblings: Leafs Double Series Lead; Preseason Projections for Matheson, Faber, York, Heiskanen, McAvoy, and Hamilton – May 8

By Michael Clifford|2025-05-08T07:21:33-04:00May 8th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

We can stop calling the Utah franchise whatever we were calling them before (it was never Hockey Club in my book), as the team announced on Wednesday that the franchise is officially named the Mammoth. Overall, not a bad choice. The name is kind of fun and the logo looks good. That logo does kind [...]