Hockey Rambling

It seemed really unfortunate that it wasn’t long after Detroit got Patrick Kane in their lineup that Dylan Larkin took the cross-check and was injured. Detroit has been one of the better stories in the NHL over the first two months and seeing this team at full strength was something fantasy owners were looking forward [...]

St. Louis fired coach Craig Berube early Wednesday morning. The team has struggled in most areas this year but what sticks out is the power play: 31st in goals per minute with the man advantage. In an era where power play production is more important than it’s been in at least a decade, if not [...]

Halfway through the Leafs/Rangers game I had one of my league-mates ask me what was wrong with Igor Shesterkin. Coincidentally I own Shesterkin in that league. Or perhaps it wasn’t and he was fishing to try and buy-low. Regardless, goalies are the epitome of small sample sizes, and we expect those to normalize faster than [...]

Isak Rosen was sent back to the AHL by Buffalo ahead of Monday night’s game against Arizona with Brett Murray coming back the other way. Rosen was held pointless in seven games with the Sabres though he played in the bottom-6 virtually the entire time and skated under nine minutes per night. It is a [...]

One of my favourites from Dobber’s Frozen Tools is the Schedule Planner, which shows you which teams are playing during any given timeframe. One thing this reveals is who’s playing on ‘light nights’, when there aren’t many games scheduled. With fewer games on tap, you should have more open slots on your fantasy roster. So, [...]

Boone Jenner is expected to miss the next six weeks with a broken jaw. The Columbus captain leads the Blue Jackets with 13 goals and 80 shots on goal while leading Jackets forwards in icetime (19:18). Expect rookies Adam Fantilli and Dmitri Voronkov to pick up more icetime and potentially increase their value while Jenner [...]

I tried to trade Sergei Bobrovsky to anyone that was paying attention during the offseason, but to no avail. That may have turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as he and the Panthers are performing better than I had expected. With a 26-save effort in a 3-1 win over Pittsburgh, Goalie Bob now [...]

With Dan Vladar being pulled in Calgary’s game on Tuesday night, it seemed likely that prospect Dustin Wolf would get the nod in net and that’s exactly what happened. Jacob Markstrom injured his hand when he got hit with an errant puck during practice and that pushed Wolf to the NHL roster. The young netminder [...]

Ottawa has won two games in a row and a big part of that has been the goaltending from Anton Forsberg. His four starts since (and including) his game in Sweden has produced a .936 save percentage, and those recent two wins have seen him stop 72 of 74 shots. This team still needs to [...]

The NHL currently has the Board of Governor meetings ongoing, and this is where often the agenda looks dry, but sometimes there are some juicy nuggets dropped. Thus far there hasn’t been anything exceptional like the out-of-nowhere announcement a few years ago that the NHL was crowdsourcing interest in ticket sales in Las Vegas, but [...]