Hockey Rambling

We had just one game in the NHL on Monday night and it was the Arizona Coyotes heading into Ottawa to face the Senators. That is about as uninteresting as it can get at this point of the season, though there aren’t many games that are uninteresting from a fantasy perspective. Lawson Crouse tallied his [...]

Since the return of Evgeni Malkin, Evan Rodrigues has seven points in 26 games. This surprises no one. But for the last couple of games he has been playing with Malkin and getting reasonable ice time in that 15–16-minute range, and he has points and at least four shots in each of his last two [...]

Robert Thomas scored a pair of goals along with a pair of assists in the Blues’ 7-4 win over Nashville in the early game of the day. Thomas now has multiple goals in back-to-back games along with a plus-5. In what appears to be a true breakout fourth season, Thomas is flirting with the point-per-game [...]

Since Viktor Arvidsson was moved to IR with a lower-body injury, Andreas Athanasiou was moved to Arvidsson’s line alongside Trevor Moore and Phillip Danault. Athanasiou has made the most of this opportunity, scoring goals in three consecutive games to go with five points in his last three games. Prior to Arvidsson’s injury, Athanasiou had been [...]

It was a huge 13-game slate in the NHL last night. After the last month or so where we had a lot of make-up games, and thus had a lot of reasonable nights of five, six, or seven games, it was a reminder of how the NHL usually works up their schedule: a couple games [...]

We had just two games in the NHL on Wednesday night so it’s a good time to go through some trade targets for the upcoming trade deadline. Rather than just list guys that may be on the move, though, it’s worth looking at what gets left behind if those players get moved. It is nice [...]

It feels to me like Jack Eichel made his Golden Knights debut just three days ago, but maybe that’s because I unfortunately don’t own him in any of my leagues. The 25-year-old is up to seven points in 10 games thus far, and that’s just while he gets his legs back under him. If you’re [...]

The New York Islanders were in action on Monday night, hosting Colorado. The team has gone through some brutal stretches this year, starting with that circus road trip to open the season. They didn’t play a home game until November 20th, and then went through an extensive COVID outbreak. Since Christmas, the team has gone [...]

I’m still reeling from the Nick Schmaltz game on Saturday. Ian had plenty to say about that game here, but it’s just too impactful to slip right by me without mention. That’s quite the list of names there, and only one of whom turned into a bust. And while I like Schmaltz’s consistency better than [...]

Congratulations if you were bold enough to stack your lineup with Arizona Coyotes on Saturday. Although it doesn’t take a hockey expert or even a mathematician to predict that the Coyotes will finish at or near the bottom of the league, we can’t predict with anything close to certainty when they will go off like [...]