Hockey Rambling

The Dallas Stars went into Wednesday night with a 16-8 record, so it has been a great start. However, it seems as if they need another top-6 winger to round out their top-9 forwards, and now may need two such wingers. The team announced on Wednesday that forward Tyler Seguin will likely miss the rest [...]

The Flames and Blue Jackets warmed up all wearing Johnny Gaudreau #13 jerseys. It was an excellent send off gesture between his two former teams.  https://twitter.com/NHLFlames/status/1864131579414561215?t=18Mf3fnMJI_4-zx0th9fPA&s=19 * Patrik Laine made his long awaited Habs debut last night, skating on the second line and lining up with the top power play unit. He played alongside Kirby [...]

Detroit goaltender Cam Talbot was injured on Sunday, and he had been having an excellent season for the Red Wings. This may have implications for the Four Nations Cup – more on that later – but it clearly has implications for Detroit. As a result of the injury, and the one to Alex Lyon, the [...]

Jake DeBrusk had a sensational Sunday, scoring the overtime winner against Detroit to complete the second hat trick of his career.  The 28-year-old winger started heating up after J.T. Miller took a leave of absence on November 19th, racking up nine points in six games since then. Notably, four of those points came with the [...]

In the second game of back-to-backs, the Rangers ended their five-game losing streak. Kaapo Kakko scored a power-play goal with only 24 seconds remaining to secure a 4-3 win over Montreal on Saturday.   Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad each scored a goal and added an assist, both breaking mini-slumps in the process. Zibanejad finished [...]

LOTS of early Black Friday hockey, so I won’t waste your time with a lengthy intro.   The knives are out on the Rangers, who have now lost five consecutive games. (Comparing them to the NFL Giants and Jets? Nasty!) Along with being out of the lineup due to an upper-body injury, Chris Kreider is [...]

The Canucks’ injury situation might be getting worse before it gets better. According to multiple reports, Filip Hronek is expected to be out for a while after being injured late in Wednesday’s game against Pittsburgh. Hronek is valuable to the Canucks as Quinn Hughes’s partner on the top pair and a mainstay on the second [...]

Perhaps more than any other team in the league this season, the Colorado Avalanche have been really battling the injury bug. While they have been getting some key players back in the lineup over the last couple weeks, they had another one go back on the injury list as winger Jonathan Drouin is week-to-week: https://twitter.com/jessemontano_/status/1861796250062143827 [...]

It’s good to be back, if only for a one-off for now. It’s just great to dip my toes in the fantasy hockey waters again, beyond just keeping up with my three keeper leagues and Dobbernomics. * Boston’s woes continue, although on the bright side Jeremy Swayman has now posted back-to-back Quality Starts and has [...]

It was a busy day in Montreal news as winger Joshua Roy was recalled from the AHL. Despite making it to the NHL last season, he started the 2024-25 campaign in Laval with eight goals and eight assists in 16 games, averaging 3.4 shots per game. At practice on Monday, he was skating on Jake [...]