Hockey Rambling

Something that had been a bit confounding – maybe a lot confounding – about the Calgary Flames is their utter refusal to even bother giving minor league goalie Dustin Wolf a shot at the NHL level. Wolf, the back-to-back goalie of the year in the AHL, had a .924 save percentage in the AHL so [...]

The Minnesota Wild made some adjustments to their blueline on Wednesday by trading Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks, then turning around and getting Zach Bogosian from Tampa Bay. I wrote up a bit on the Addison trade already so go check that out if you haven’t already. I will say that it’s one [...]

Jack Campbell being waved was a first step in Oilers management pushing the panic button. It sounds as though the plan is to look internally first, but I would imagine if that doesn’t work, then a trade for Cal Petersen, Jake Allen, Dan Vladar, Anton Forsberg, or Chris Dreidger could come to fruition very quickly. [...]

Even with a fantastic start to the season, there is cause for concern in New Jersey as Nico Hischier appeared to suffer a concussion in a game against Buffalo, and he’s not played in over a week. To make matters worse, Jack Hughes suffered an upper-body injury and missed time over the weekend. On the [...]

I’m standing in for the Ramblings for the second week in a row and as there were just two games on Sunday, I thought I’d breakdown both of them. Anaheim has been playing well in 2023-2024 and hit their peak to this point with a 4-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights after scoring four [...]

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. I am covering for Ian today as he had a couple of prior commitments, but he’ll be back in his usual spot next weekend. The big news out of Minnesota over the last couple days was the move of Marco Rossi to the top line, with Matt Boldy coming along with him, [...]

Jack Hughes has raced out to the NHL scoring lead, but his season might have hit a detour. Hughes left Friday’s game in the first period with an upper-body injury after crashing into the boards following a scoring chance. https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1720602395070062693 According to Elliotte Friedman, it might take a day or two to figure out the [...]

Adam Fox left Thursday’s game with a lower-body injury after colliding leg on leg with Sebastian Aho. At the time of the injury, Fox was tied with Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes for the most points among defensemen (11 points). That was before Hughes and the Canucks teed off on the Sharks later Thursday evening. [...]

Two big pieces of news came down on Wednesday though neither are directly related to this fantasy season. Kind of. First off, Nicklas Backstrom announced he’s stepping away from the team for injury reasons, which seems pretty clearly to be that his hip hasn’t responded as he had hoped post-surgery. He did not look like [...]

Hoping everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. There were only two games on the light NHL schedule, which is uncommon for a Tuesday. The rest of the week still sees your usually stacked Thursday and Saturday slates, though with only one game left from the Penguins and three from more than a handful of [...]