Hockey Rambling

In yesterday’s Ramblings, I wrote about goalies and their current valuations. Today I’m going to write about… … goalies again! The anticipated goaltending musical chairs began on Saturday morning, with several signings to break down. Robin Lehner, 5 years, $25 million, Vegas This turned out to be the worst-kept secret of the playoffs. Originally reported [...]

It’s going to be weird not seeing Henrik Lundqvist between the pipes for the Rangers next season. Yet in spite of his struggles last season (3.16 GAA, .905 SV%), I’d expect him to land somewhere as a backup or a 1A. Lundqvist posted a strong high-danger save percentage (10th among 61 goalies that played at [...]

Now that the Tampa Bay Lightning have won the Stanley Cup and completed not-so-socially-distanced celebrations back home, we’ve learned more about what ailed Steven Stamkos throughout the playoffs. According to GM Julien BriseBois, Stamkos underwent sports hernia surgery before the season pause. BriseBois stated that Stamkos’ rehab resulted in a “compensation” injury while he was [...]

I relaunched DobberProspects.com on Friday! Now go on and enjoy a cleaner, slicker site in time for the upcoming 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Still a few tweaks to go, and a couple of cool widgets I want to ad, but much of it is done. And please turn off your ad blocker. Any popup issues [...]

We are now in full-on offseason Rambling mode. I’m not going to lie, this hurts me. Normally, we have to slug our way through this seek and destroy situation for about four months. We already did it from March to July and now we’re looking at four more months of offseason rambling before the puck [...]

Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final had much the pace of most of the series: slow but controlled by Tampa Bay. To wit: at the mid-point of the second period, the game had seen 20 total shots on goal, with just seven from Dallas Stars sticks. That control led to a 2-0 lead for [...]

First thing’s first. I relaunched DobberProspects.com a couple of days ago! Now go on and enjoy a cleaner, slicker site in time for the upcoming 2020 NHL Entry Draft. Still a few tweaks to go, and a couple of cool widgets I want to ad, but much of it is done. And please turn off [...]

We get to watch at least one more hockey game… until who knows when. Dallas 3, Tampa Bay 2 – 2OT (Tampa Bay leads series 3-2) Corey Perry might be your least favorite player on the Stars. Yet he’s the guy you can thank for ensuring that bubble hockey will continue with a Game 6 [...]

Nearly a calendar year after the 2019-20 season started, and nearly two months after bubble hockey began, the Stanley Cup may be awarded in less than 24 hours. Tampa Bay 5, Dallas 4 OT (Tampa Bay leads series 3-1) Kevin Shattenkirk played overtime hero in Game 4, scoring a power-play goal at 6:34 of overtime. [...]

The Sens announced they won’t be bringing back goaltender Craig Anderson. He had spent the bulk of his franchise with the team but he’s had a few rough seasons in a row playing behind really bad teams and at the age of 39, it makes sense the team looks for new goaltending as their rebuild [...]