Hockey Rambling

Before we get into Sunday’s news, a quick reminder that due to the All-Star Break, this is a double week in most fantasy formats – running from January 29th to February 11th. As a result of the break, there are a lot of teams that only play twice over the next 14 days. Fortunately, there [...]

Hope you enjoyed this busy day/night of action. The next time at least 20 teams play will be (flips calendar) February 10, which is two weeks away. - With Carter Hart’s very indefinite leave of absence, Samuel Ersson is now the starter in Philly. He has earned it with some solid play during the first [...]

The Avalanche have signed Zach Parise to a one-year contract worth $825,000. Parise should provide Colorado with scoring depth, which should help a team that seems to deal with more than its share of injuries (currently without Gabriel Landeskog and Valeri Nichushkin). A point-per-game scorer early in his career with the Devils and a fairly [...]

The injuries have piled up for New Jersey and despite getting back Timo Meier recently, and Ondrej Palat last night, they remain without Jack Hughes, Dougie Hamilton, Jonas Siegenthaler, and now Michael McLeod. All the injuries have forced a lot of line shuffling and their game last night saw Dawson Mercer start as the second-line [...]

Key players missing from any lineup is something that can really derail the season of any team (look at New Jersey, goaltending aside). That had been happening to Colorado as Gabriel Landeskog is out for the season, Sam Girard went into the Player Assistance Program, as did Valeri Nichushkin, Artturi Lehkonen has been out for [...]

Between the cap league skater and goalie rankings, as well as the free agency salary projections, this is the first of four days in a row where I’m publishing something on the site. Lots to look forward to as we roll towards the weekend. * Victor Soderstrom was recalled after the Coyotes lost Troy Stetcher [...]

Injuries up front have been a problem for Buffalo all season long. It started with Jack Quinn’s Achilles issue, then Dylan Cozens’s facial injury, then Alex Tuch missed time, and so on. The latest was Jeff Skinner, who missed Buffalo’s last five games. The good news is that he was back on the ice for [...]

Before we get into Sunday’s games and streaming options for the week ahead, let’s run through some noteworthy injury updates from around the league. https://twitter.com/MitchellClinton/status/1749122854262636941 Winnipeg’s top center won’t be available against the Bruins on Monday. Considering he just started skating by himself, I wouldn’t expect him to play against Toronto on Wednesday either. Adam [...]

The Islanders made a splash on Saturday, firing Lane Lambert and hiring Patrick Roy to be their new head coach. I took care of the Fantasy Take here. We will get to see Coach Roy in action very quickly, as the Isles have a match with the Stars today (Sunday) at 7:30 pm ET. - [...]

As expected, the Senators have signed Shane Pinto to a one-year, $775,000 contract. Pinto is expected to return from his half-season suspension on Sunday, so it will be interesting to see how the Senators draw their lines up the middle with Josh Norris projected to return at around that time as well. In the Midseason [...]