Hockey Rambling

The last updates for the Fantasy Guide were finished on Thursday. If you didn’t pick up the Guide yet and you have a late draft (it happens!), visit here. * Have you checked out the new Goalie Post yet? Set up your email update notifications now (you’ll have to do it again, with the new [...]

We’re barely (not even?) a week into the season, and some goaltending situations are shaping up. Apologies if you’re in one of those scoring-only pools, but the bulk of this version of the Ramblings will be focused on goalies. Of course, we’ll start with the news that shook Leafs Nation early Saturday. It’s Ilya Samsonov [...]

Although Friday featured just four games, it featured a few debuts and returns of note. Ville Husso’s first game as a Red Wing couldn’t have gone any better. Husso stopped all 29 shots he faced in the Wings’ 3-0 win over Montreal. Here’s one of those saves. https://twitter.com/BallySportsDET/status/1581094686407593984 The Wings play again today (Saturday), so [...]

Plenty of storylines are emerging very early in the season, including injuries, debuts with new teams, and even a signing. I’ll cover the ones that seem to stand out, at least from a fantasy perspective. One game was all that it took for Patrik Laine to hit injured reserve. The Blue Jackets winger is expected [...]

Kent Johnson is one of the players that a lot of people feel can be a rookie of the year contender this season for Columbus. He certainly has the skills, it’s just a matter of lineup slotting. There was a bit of a setback for him but should be back soon: https://twitter.com/Aportzline/status/1580221400417083392 This was done [...]

Regular season games in North America are underway, and the full-fledged fantasy season is upon us! Last night started with two games, seeing the Rangers take on the Lightning in the battle of the fantasy first-round goalies. The late game saw the Kings and Golden Knights square-off in what was probably a slightly less anticipated [...]

Though the regular season started on the weekend with a pair of Sharks/Predators games in Czechia, the campaign starts in earnest today. We have two confrontations today (Tuesday) with a fuller slate coming on Wednesday. That makes this Ramblings my last of the unofficial offseason. For anyone that is waiting to draft, our 2022-23 Dobber [...]

The last update for the Fantasy Guide was Sunday. Seven times. And I’ll keep updating until Wednesday morning. Then I’ll call it. After that, refer to our Frozen Tools player profiles for game logs, ‘on pace’ stats, links to articles they are mentioned in, rankings (all of our rankings) advanced stats and more. * Have [...]

The Nashville Predators have taken both games from the San Jose Sharks in Prague, winning Saturday’s game by a score of 3-2. Both teams will fly back to North America, where they will resume their seasons later next week while readjusting to the time change. Your way-too-early goal scoring leader is Nino Niederreiter, who scored [...]

Amid all the playoff baseball and preseason NHL games still taking place, the NHL regular season officially started on Friday in Prague. The Predators, led by a goal and an assist from Kiefer Sherwood, skated to a 4-1 win over the Sharks. I had wondered why up-and-comer Philip Tomasino wasn’t in the lineup while fringe [...]