Hockey Rambling

There was lots of Buffalo Sabres news so let’s tackle that first. The Sabres have recalled Brandon Biro from the AHL in response to sending down goaltender Devon Levi. Biro has already appeared in the NHL this season and with the team’s injuries, this bouncing back and forth is likely to persist for him for [...]

Some fun news yesterday with the return of Patrick Kane, signing a one-year deal in Detroit with a full no-movement-clause, and a cap hit of $2.75 million. He could line up with Alex DeBrincat and Dylan Larkin and be plugged into fantasy lineups immediately, though there is lots of reason for caution as well: https://twitter.com/Hockey_Robinson/status/1729520790297862349 [...]

Going into Monday night’s game against Buffalo, the New York Rangers had been surviving the injury to defenceman Adam Fox. They had gone 8-1-1 without him in the lineup, their lone loss coming in Dallas. He wasn’t expected to miss a significant amount of time, and they got good news about Fox at Monday’s morning [...]

Shea Theodore was recently placed on Injured Reserve, a move which requires him to miss at least a week of action. Given that he last played on November 22nd, Theodore won’t be eligible to face the Flames on Monday or the Oilers on Tuesday. The earliest he can return is Thursday against the Canucks. However, [...]

In allowing seven goals to the Rangers, Linus Ullmark was tagged with his first really bad start of the season. That being said, he had to face 40 shots, which tied for the highest number of shots faced in a single game for him this season. I was more confident than most on Ullmark this [...]

I did not shop on Black Friday at all. Not just because I had to write the Ramblings, but because I have nothing to buy for myself and I’m not ready to start Christmas shopping yet. Plus I don’t care for mall crowds. If you don’t like shopping, fortunately there were a LOT of hockey [...]

Nico Hischier was once again at practice for New Jersey on Thursday. As mentioned by Amanda Stein, this makes several practices/morning skates now that Hischier has been on the ice. It certainly doesn’t seem as if there’s been any sort of setback as he returns from his ‘upper-body’ injury, though there is still no definitive [...]

First off, Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends, family, and readers in America. We hope that everyone enjoying this holiday does so with lots of food, football, family, and friends.  Secondly, this will be a brief Ramblings. I lost power where I am and it's been 12 hours and counting. This is being written in [...]

With no games last night, and also none on the docket for Thursday (wouldn’t want to compete with American Thanksgiving football), this seems like a good time to take a look at the state of the league, upcoming schedules, and how to set yourself up the rest of the way. Ottawa’s only game of the [...]

One of the players I was personally high on heading into the 2023-24 was Montreal’s Rafael Harvey-Pinard. He seemed to mesh very well with Nick Suzuki after the injury to Cole Caufield last season. That, and an ability to land a lot of hits, made me think there was some sneaky banger value here. Things [...]