Hockey Rambling

The NHL’s regular season came to a close on Friday with two games that had been postponed earlier in the season. These two games provided the few fantasy teams still competing for something with one last opportunity to pull out a win. If you fall into this category, you were probably breaking these games down [...]

With the health issues that Jonathan Toews had suffered over the last few years, it is clear his play was declining faster than a normal aging curve would otherwise dictate. Chicago is in Year 1 of a full rebuild and it will be a while before they’re competitive again. All that in mind, we got [...]

With the playoffs just a few days away, the injury status for a number of key players is going to be updated on a near-daily basis. Such is the magnification of postseason hockey where one missed game could turn the tides of an entire series.   Enter Mathew Barzal, who hasn’t played in nearly two [...]

My last Ramblings of the year comes in with three days worth of games left on the schedule. Playoff drafts are just around the corner, and I want to go over a few thoughts and strategies entering those. How to win is pretty simple. Whether it’s a bracket or a player pool, you need your [...]

With Washington sliding out of the playoff race over the last two months, attention turned to Alex Ovechkin and his pursuit of the all-time goals record. He won’t reach it this year, and almost certainly not next year, either, but the chase is part of the fun. That chase may have come to an end [...]

Hey everyone. It isn't my usual day but I'm filling in for Dobber on this last Monday of the regular season. We should be back to regularly scheduled Ramblings programming next week. * One of the reasons the Minnesota Wild bought out the contracts of Ryan Suter and Zach Parise, taking a huge cap-hit penalty [...]

Happy Easter everyone! For the first time in history, 16 NHL games were played on a single day. That meant with all 32 teams playing, you had zero empty slots (aside from injuries or healthy scratches) on Saturday, forcing you to start your best lineup and make some tough start/sit decisions. Hopefully it all worked [...]

With no games on Friday, the focus of today’s Ramblings will be on Thursday’s later games, so expect the bulk of the coverage to be on Western Conference teams. For Thursday’s earlier games, see yesterday’s Ramblings. - In just their second NHL season, the Seattle Kraken will be one of 16 teams competing for the [...]

With Thursday featuring 14 games in total and Friday showing none, I’ll split coverage of Thursday’s games over both today’s and tomorrow’s Ramblings. The focus of today’s Ramblings will be on the early games (those with 7 pm ET/4 pm PT starts), so consider today’s article to be mainly about Eastern Conference teams, if you [...]

The final Infinity Stone the Boston Bruins need to complete their gauntlet is having a healthy Taylor Hall in the lineup. He hasn’t played since late February with a lower-body injury and time was running out to get up to speed for the postseason. Boston provided a positive update on Hall Wednesday at practice, where [...]