Hockey Rambling

In a fourth straight one-goal game, and one-goal win, over Carolina, the Florida Panthers are off the to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in franchise history. Matthew Tkachuk put home a power-play feed from Aleksander Barkov with five seconds left in the game to lift Florida to a 4-3 win and a [...]

Every year it feels like the Conference Finals are the round that I watch the least of. For some reason they just don’t tend to hold the same interest that the other three rounds do. I think it has something to do with the wear and exhaustion from the regular season and then the first [...]

A 32-save shutout from Sergei Bobrovsky held Carolina off the scoreboard and helped Florida to a 1-0 win in Game 3 of the Eastern Final. It gives the Panthers a 3-0 series lead with four cracks at a trip to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since the late 1990s. Sam Reinhart scored [...]

The Prospects Report will be released June 1. Ten days away!! You can now pre-order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). * Jonathan Marchessault continues his torrid playoff run. He scored the tying goal and added an assist to give him eight points in four games. He’s been an [...]

Hockey games – especially playoff games – are notorious for not playing out the way we think they will. After the marathon four overtime (nearly five overtime) game, the thinking was that the goalies would be tired and that you’d need to load up on scoring for Game 2 daily fantasy and game props. Not [...]

Game 1 of the Western Conference Final also needed overtime to be decided, although it didn’t take nearly as long as Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Final. Golden Knights 4, Stars 3 OT (Golden Knights lead series 1-0) Brett Howden scored just 1:35 into the first overtime period to secure a Game 1 victory [...]

Only one game was officially on the schedule on Thursday, but if you stayed up late enough you got to watch the equivalent of over two games. Yes, it was the longest game of the season and the sixth-longest game in NHL history. https://twitter.com/StatsCentre/status/1659442425360945153 https://twitter.com/JayGold85/status/1659435773702152192 Panthers 3, Hurricanes 2, 4 OT (Panthers lead series 1-0) [...]

With the Eastern Conference Final starting tonight, it is a time to offer some thoughts on the two series that lay ahead in the NHL playoffs. Florida-Carolina is not a Conference Final matchup many (any?) of us had, but with the benefit of hindsight, it certainly does make sense: over the final 45 games of [...]

We’re now halfway through the playoffs if you’re counting by round, but if you’re counting by games played the playoffs are about 80% complete. With no games on the docket Tuesday night, this seems like a good time to look at some stats. Roope Hintz has gone a bit bananas in the playoffs this year, [...]

The 2023 NHL Conference Finals are set thanks to a 2-1 Dallas win in Game 7 of their second-round matchup against Seattle. Roope Hintz chased down a loose lob pass to score what would stand as the game-winner for nearly 24 minutes, and Wyatt Johnston roofed a backhand in tight late in the third period [...]