Hockey Rambling

Although not an official government holiday, Black Friday resulted in a bunch of early games and an unusually high number of games overall for a Friday. Hopefully you remembered to set your lineup in time (I usually set it the night before just in case I lose internet or I have to deal with some [...]

There is a lot of data to sift through in the fantasy hockey realm. Just perusing our Frozen Tools alone can have someone lost for hours, creating their own reports and parameters to see who is performing well, who isn’t, signs of regression, changes in usage, or a whole slew of other reasons. One data [...]

One thing that had plagued the Carolina Hurricanes for years was a lack of steady goaltending. That has changed in recent seasons with the additions of Antti Raanta and Frederik Andersen. Both of those guys are free agents after the 2022-23 season, though, so the team needs to look to the future. They did that [...]

I’ll be posting the updated salary cap keeper rankings on the 25th (skaters) and 26th (goalies), so keep an eye out for those. Even with Moritz Seider’s slow start, he’s still holding off Trevor Zegras for the top spot in the rankings this month. The value you’re getting for an offensive Dman with his upside [...]

It has been a much better start to the season than many hockey fans were anticipating for the Philadelphia Flyers as they are on pace for over 80 points (as of Monday afternoon, more on their Monday night game later) and that was without Ryan Ellis and Sean Couturier all year. The injuries have just [...]

The only No.1 goalie to start on Sunday – out of four – lost the game. And that’s been much of the story this season when it comes to goaltending. It often seems that whenever you pick who to activate for the week or for the day, the opposite of expectations will happen. Another case [...]

The New Jersey Devils won their 12th consecutive game in a Saturday matinee, and they were able to do so without much offense from their three main scoring threats in Jesper Bratt, Jack Hughes, and Nico Hischier (just one combined point). The Devils are firing on all cylinders right now and are a team that [...]

The NHL schedule makers don’t care that you might have had no one to roster on Friday, but on Saturday you’ll have a surplus of players that you’ll need to make start/sit decisions on. If you were looking to get your hockey fix on Friday, only one game was on the schedule, and it was [...]

It was a bad night for the two starting goalies in the Dallas/Florida game. Scott Wedgewood was stretchered off the ice during the second period, although the injury simply turned out to be a massive back spasm. It’s good that the injury is not as serious as it first appeared, but I’m not sure what [...]

Heading into Wednesday night’s game against Buffalo, Ottawa had been on a 1-6-1 skid, allowing 35 goals in those eight games. Something had to give with the lineup and the first solution seems to be Drake Batherson being dropped to the third line: https://twitter.com/TSN1200/status/1592903674132471809 We should note that in this downturn, no regular Ottawa forward [...]