Hockey Rambling

Dobber, Ian Gooding, Mike Clifford, Alex MacLean and Brennan DeSouza take turns providing daily ramblings. They cover a wide range of topics including the latest hockey developments as well as some deeper thoughts to help you with your fantasy hockey teams. You can be assured that when you wake up in the morning there will be a new rambling on the main page ready for you to indulge.

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Ramblings: Midseason Guide Released; Updates on Tavares, Hintz, and Girard; Thompson Blanks Ottawa; Larkin and Kane Rolling – January 17

By Michael Clifford|2025-01-17T14:28:37-05:00January 17th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The 2024 Dobber Hockey Midseason Guide has been released! There is rest-of-year outlooks, prospect updates (including those that may appear before the end of the regular season), which players to keep an eye on for the Trade Deadline, advanced statistics, and a whole lot more. A lot of work from the entire Dobber team went [...]

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Ramblings: Updates on Tavares, Jarry, and Nichushkin; McLeod Hatty; Offensive Changes for Jarvis, Marchment, MacKinnon, and Caufield – January 16

By Michael Clifford|2025-01-16T08:04:00-05:00January 16th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Injured Colorado Avalanche winger Valeri Nichushkin was skating in a non-contact jersey earlier this week and there was some hope that maybe he would return to game action in relatively short order. That does not appear to be the case as the team provided and update on his status and we shouldn’t expect him back [...]

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Ramblings: Canucks Get Healthy… Dose of Reality; Klingberg Eyeing Return; Dobes; Merilainen; Kerins; Carlsson & More (Jan 15)

By Alexander MacLean|2025-01-16T10:03:07-05:00January 15th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

For the first time all season, the Canucks had a healthy core, with Elias Pettersson, J.T. Miller, Brock Boeser, Quinn Hughes, Filip Hronek, and Thatcher Demko all in the lineup together. The Canucks proceeded to start Kevin Lankinen, so we still have yet to see a game with everyone. However, they came out flat, and [...]

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Ramblings: Updates on Sorokin, Hronek, Marino, Kreider, and Nichushkin; Decline in Offence for Robertson, Improvement for Strome – January 14

By Michael Clifford|2025-01-14T07:29:21-05:00January 14th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Toronto had Steven Lorentz skating on the top line with Auston Matthews in practice yesterday. We would normally shrug that aside as a filler-type thing, but Matthew Knies and Bobby McMann were both practicing while Max Pacioretty seems to be headed for a healthy scratch. This won’t last, but it’s notable that Craig Berube is [...]

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Ramblings: Red Wings Rolling; Kaprizov Update; Underrated Offense from Dadonov & LaCombe (Jan 13)

By Brennan Des|2025-01-13T00:41:15-05:00January 13th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

With a win against Seattle on Sunday, Detroit’s record under Todd McLellan improves to 7-1. They’ve scored a power-play goal in all eight of those games, converting on 14 of 28 opportunities during this stretch. With a goal against the Kraken, Alex DeBrincat’s point streak grows to seven games. He has six goals and 11 [...]

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Ramblings: Day of Shutouts – Hellebuyck, Lankinen, Ersson, Merilainen; Ovechkin Reaches 20 For 20th Time (Jan 12)

By Ian Gooding|2025-01-12T01:27:17-05:00January 12th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

With two goals in Saturday’s game, David Pastrnak now has multiple goals in three of his past five games. He continues to shoot the puck with regularity, as he has at least four shots in nine of his past 10 games. Even though Pasta is on pace to finish with less than 40 goals, this [...]

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Ramblings: Pettersson/Demko Return, Marchand/Pastrnak, Guenther To Miss Time (Jan 11)

By Ian Gooding|2025-01-11T00:40:38-05:00January 11th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The Canucks were hoping for better than a 2-0 loss in Carolina on Friday, as both Elias Pettersson and Thatcher Demko returned from injury. Pettersson was held without a shot in 20 minutes of icetime while skating on a line with Jake DeBrusk and Conor Garland, while Demko allowed two goals on 20 shots. Interrupted [...]

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Ramblings: Staal’s Hat Trickery; Luukkonen Lights Out; Johnston Hot Streak Continues; Updates on Walman, Evangelista, and More – January 10

By Michael Clifford|2025-01-10T07:52:13-05:00January 10th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

It had been a good start to the season for San Jose Sharks defenceman Jake Walman, posting 5 goals and 20 assists in 31 games, totaling 80 shots, 47 blocks, and 30 hits. However, injuries have started to limit his appearances as he’s now missed 12 games in total, with San Jose playing Game 44 [...]

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Ramblings: Bedard Heater Continues; Dubois Doubles Down; Updates on Andersen, Malkin, Kulich, Hronek, and More – January 9

By Michael Clifford|2025-01-09T07:18:06-05:00January 9th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

The big news from Wednesday was the postponement of the game between the Calgary Flames and the Los Angeles Kings due to the ongoing, severe wildfire in California. There has not been a date announced for the makeup game, but that is not the important thing right now. For anyone looking to help out with [...]

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Ramblings: Matthews ; Detroit’s New Coaching Results; Capitals Scouting; End of Season Back-to-Backs & More (Jan 8)

By Alexander MacLean|2025-01-07T23:24:14-05:00January 8th, 2025|Hockey Rambling|

Auston Matthews is up to seven points in three games since he returned from a nagging injury. In the days leading up to his return he said he really turned a corner in how he was feeling, and it sure looks like it. Now this mystery ailment may still be an issue, but it's a [...]