Hockey Rambling

The biggest news from Friday was that Carey Price would indeed return to action for the Habs on Saturday for a home game against Buffalo. If there was ever a game that would help ease him back into action, it’s a home game against a bad team playing the second of a back-to-back on the [...]

PSA: Black Friday hockey kicks off today at 1:00 pm EST, so get those lineups set early! * At the Thanksgiving break no team has played more games than the Arizona Coyotes with 24. Four teams have played 23 games (Washington, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Toronto). Meanwhile, a half-dozen teams have played only 20 games (San Jose, [...]

Interesting scheduling quirk this week, as the NHL is going dark for American Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to my friends south of the border! That pushed the entire league into action last night, well all but one with the Blues sitting out. Good riddance I say! I am facing a team in head-to-head with Jaden Schwartz, [...]

The Big Blue Line, Talbot Troubles, plus more… […]

My past few waiver wire grabs have ripped up the scoresheet with Jason Zucker, Micheal Ferland and Sebastian Aho all offering tremendous value over the past couple of weeks. This week my big add was Kevin Fiala, who got things going with a goal and an assist. Since I can already picture the question rolling [...]

We had five games in the NHL on Sunday night so let’s get right into the games. Carolina’s top line continued it’s tear by helping down the New York Islanders 4-2. That makes three straight wins, including a back-to-back this weekend, and a 5-2-2 record overall for the Hurricanes in November. Teuvo Teravainen had two [...]

Super Sean, Super Schenn, … and Joel Edmundson? […]

We had ourselves a good old-fashioned goaltending battle in Columbus on Friday night as Henrik Lundqvist and Sergei Bobrovsky combined to stop 76 of 78 shots they faced, but it was Constable Bobrovsky who managed a shutout en route to a 2-0 win. This pushes Bobrovsky up a .933 save percentage on the year thanks [...]

  Scoring fell to just below six goals per game after last night's action. Indeed, it sits at 5.99 goals per game, a spike of 0.46 over last season, or nearly an extra goal every second game. I expect that the average will continue to trend down but it's worth noting that the over/under betting [...]

The Eddie Lack experience got off to a horrible start as the Flames’ backup gave up five goals on 15 shots before getting yanked half-way through an 8-2 loss to the Red Wings. I was skeptical about Lack’s chances of going on a hot run for the Flames and so far the returns have not [...]