Hockey Rambling

Heyyyyy… Kaapo Kakko’s alarm finally went off! Yep, the 2019 second overall draft pick finally rolled out of bed and started the 2021-22 NHL season on Sunday, picking up his first assist of the campaign in the middle of the second period…and then adding his first goal of the season early in the third. Arguably [...]

A few years ago, Dobber was closely tracking Andreas Athanasiou in his quest for the most abysmal season ever, at least in terms of plus-minus. Through his first 12 games, Athanasiou was minus-16, and if it weren’t for a mid-season injury, he may have given the minus-100 mark a good run. As it was, he [...]

I can’t remember a season with so many teams having schedules this thin to start the year. The Colorado Avalanche are in the midst of their second of three weeks where they play just two games and the New York Islanders have only one game this week for the second time this year. There are [...]

The hits just keep coming for Ottawa as the team added Alex Formenton, Nikita Zaitsev, and Matt Murray to the COVID list. That now gives them nine players and a coach on that list for the time being, which began Thursday night against Los Angeles. The game went on as scheduled, despite the talk that [...]

It has been a remarkable start to the season for Anaheim’s Troy Terry, perhaps one of their forgotten prospects. While not a true prospect anymore, really, he has fewer than two seasons of games played and just turned 24 in September. If he could find his trajectory as a prospect again, there could be something [...]

The NHL continues to completely ruin the response to the Brad Aldrich situation. It’s extremely disheartening to see that they really just don’t care about the players, and won’t make any move to care for anything but the bottom-line of the business. At least we have players like Carey Price that are starting to take [...]

We are about a month into the NHL season and it does seem like the games are flying by, right? It doesn’t feel like a month has passed since the season opener, but here we are. While it’s still too early to make some determinations, there are definitely some players and situations I’ve moved on [...]

What to say about Tyler Bertuzzi? He has points in just six of his 10 games and yet he has 15 points. Four of them were multi-point games. He’s starting to get a reputation for those. The multi-point games are about as common as the single-point games. But that means that there are a lot [...]

As has been rumored for the past couple weeks, the Blackhawks have pulled the plug on Jeremy Colliton. For more on what it means, you can check out the Fantasy Take that I wrote earlier today. One other stat that I found out after I posted the article: The Blackhawks actually have the fifth-best penalty [...]

The Patrik Laine comeback season has been delayed. The Blue Jackets winger is expected to miss the next 4 to 6 weeks with an oblique strain. Laine had been delivering on that hope, scoring 10 points (3 G, 7 A) in nine games. Cole Sillinger, who is one of the players profiled in this week’s [...]