Hockey Rambling

I find this NHL realignment for COVID topic very interesting. For starters, it’s brought up the idea of a permanent Canadian division. I’ve gone on record as saying that I’m against it permanently for travel reasons, but I’d love to see it play out this season only. It’ll be like Hockey Day in Canada – [...]

As we barrel towards a (hopeful) mid-January NHL start, the previews are rolling in. While I would recommend buying the 2020 Dobber Hockey Guide because that is everything we talk about across the site and a whole lot more all in on place, we’re here to help the people that don’t buy it as well. [...]

Well, I figured it was time to start projections, seeing as there is a lot of chatter the NHL season will begin in about five weeks’ time. It was a wild, wild trip just briefly going back over stats from 2019-20. Remember that it’ll be at least 10 months between the end of last season [...]

We will have NHL hockey in 2021!* *probably.  Reports from all over the insider’s web indicate that the NHL and the Union have agreed not to fiddle with the financial aspect of the return to play. This was always going to be the major potential roadblock. Players, unsurprisingly, want what they negotiated in the CBA. [...]

The 15th annual Fantasy Hockey Guide is out and ready for download! Draft List too! Updated up to the Johnny Boychuk news. To my knowledge, this is the only fantasy hockey guide available right now. So if you’re hankerin’ for a fantasy guide and haven’t tried mine yet, I guess now is as good a [...]

When I posted the tweet below, I didn’t realize it would get as much attention as it did. I guess so many of my Twitter followers can relate to this. https://twitter.com/Ian_Gooding/status/1334992241027235841 A few people have reached out to me, curious to find out why I said this and what exactly happened. Since the issue has [...]

A positive anything is always better than a negative nothing. That’s why hockey fans should welcome the news that the NHL and NHLPA have discussed a mid-January start with either a 52-game or 56-game schedule. Training camps would start in early January, although the teams that didn’t play in the postseason would be able to [...]

With the NHL highly unlikely to be restarting on January 1 (in spite of Gary Bettman’s recent comments suggesting otherwise), the recent report from Elliotte Friedman suggesting that four teams are exploring the possibility of outdoor games seems at least somewhat interesting. I mean, if a baseball stadium like Fenway Park doesn’t work, then there [...]

It was 25 years ago yesterday that Patrick Roy was traded to the Colorado Avalanche, a trade that altered the next two decades of their respective franchises, for better (Colorado) or worse (Montreal). I don’t remember a lot about pro sports from my childhood, but I do remember my dad telling me my favourite player [...]