Hockey Rambling

The Prospects Report will be released June 1. You can now pre-order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). * Apologies to those subscribers who received one-cent charges. Back when COVID delayed the NHL season, I was forced to push the date of the new subscription back a couple of [...]

The surprise Seattle Kraken will play another Game 7 on the road – this one on Monday in Dallas.   Kraken 6, Stars 3 (series tied 3-3) Want to know how balanced the Seattle scoring is? Eeli Tolvanen and Jordan Eberle are the first players in Kraken history to record three points in a playoff [...]

A no-goal call will be discussed in Toronto all summer, while Vegas’s Game 5 win places the Oilers on the brink of elimination. Panthers 3, Maple Leafs 2 OT (Panthers win series 4-1) Nick Cousins scored the overtime winner at 15:32 to send the Florida Panthers to the Eastern Conference Final for the first time [...]

One of the developing storylines for Toronto this postseason has been the goaltending. Not necessarily the play, but rather the health and status of their three netminders. Matt Murray is the third goalie right now, and maybe healthy, while Joseph Woll has been solid since entering for Ilya Samsonov. Speaking of which, the Leafs provided [...]

Now that they have the privilege of drafting Connor Bedard first overall, the Chicago Blackhawks have to go about actually building the rest of the team. It might seem a bit obvious, but we don’t need to look very far in history, or just at the present, for the teams of generational talents to not [...]

The 38-year-old Brent Burns was rejuvenated this year getting away from Erik Karlsson (though Karlsson seems to have benefitted a little more from the breakup). He paced for over 60-points for the first time in four years, in spite of playing the lowest number of minutes he has seen in nearly a decade. Being able [...]

The most hyped NHL Draft in years, headlined by one of the most hyped players in years, had its Draft Lottery on Monday night. The winner would get the right to draft Connor Bedard first overall next month and potentially change the direction of their franchise for years. General managers were all-out tanking for this [...]

The Prospects Report will be released June 1. You can now pre-order all of the 2023-24 fantasy products in the shop here (or subscribe!). * The Devils came out and immediately hammered the Hurricanes. That’s impressive, considering this is a Rod Brind’Amour-coached team. But Jack Hughes took his game to another level with four points. [...]

After a playoff performance that fell short of expectations, the New York Rangers have decided to move on from Gerard Gallant and search for a new head coach. The Rangers had signaled they were all in by trading for Vladimir Tarasenko and Patrick Kane at the deadline, but instead ended up losing to the rival [...]

Just one game on Friday, and another game coming up today (Saturday). We’re going to have to get used to nights without much hockey for the next little while. Hurricanes 6, Devils 1 (Hurricanes lead series 2-0) Without Andrei Svechnikov, Teuvo Teravainen, and what was supposed to be Max Pacioretty, the Hurricanes just keep on [...]