Hockey Rambling

After Friday’s six-pack of must-watch elimination games (with five resulting in the elimination of a team), Saturday’s pair of round-robin games may have seemed like a letdown for hockey fans looking to get their fix. Yet these games had playoff matchup implications, which made them worth checking out if you had the chance. In the [...]

It was a hockey fan’s dream on Friday, as games started early and went well into the evening. These games saw multiple teams enter the 16-team playoffs (playoffs for sure now), while some surprise teams will be entering Monday’s lottery for the first overall pick. Teams that won their series on Friday: NY Islanders, Arizona, [...]

Jesse Puljujarvi is heading back to Finland for next year. He has signed a one-year deal with Karpat of the Finnish Elite League. According to the press release, there is an out clause for the NHL, but who knows when the next NHL regular season will be. They’re hoping for December. Pulju had 53 points [...]

Another sunny summer day, another 13 hours of playoff hockey on the docket. My goodness, this is a strange yet beautiful time to be a hockey fan.  First up were the Panthers and the Islanders and things continued to be a tire fire in net for the Kitty Cats. Two-time Vezina winner, Sergei Bobrovsky has [...]

These are my first Ramblings since the NHL officially returned, meaning post-exhibition games. I just want to pass along some thoughts on the weekend games before reviewing what happened in Monday’s contests. First, it sure seems to me there’s a difference in intensity between the round robin games and the play-in games. That should have [...]

The Interactive Playoff Draft List is up, updated and ready for download. It’s not too late to start a playoff pool! LIMITED TIME OFFER: Keeper League Pack (Prospects Report is already out!) and this Playoff List for under 20 bucks. That’s right – the FPR, the Fantasy Guide (out in October), and the Playoff Draft [...]

It was hockey hockey hockey all day long on Saturday. You may have found it impossible to watch the entire quintupleheader, as other commitments and the nice weather of August might have gotten in the way. But at least when you were ready to watch hockey, there was probably a game on. Let’s dive into [...]

It all starts today! Or tomorrow, if you’re a night owl reading this not long after I’ve posted it. Either way, the 2019-20 postseason that we’ve been waiting so long for is about to begin! Think back to when this whole pandemic hit and the league shut down. The pause went from days to weeks [...]

Thursday was the last day of exhibition games before the real fun gets started on Saturday. Like Mike Clifford last night, I’ll mainly recap games here, since we now have those to talk about. I’ll start with the late Wednesday game, as it might have been on past Mike’s bedtime in the Maritimes. The Canucks/Jets [...]