Hockey Rambling

In allowing seven goals to the Rangers, Linus Ullmark was tagged with his first really bad start of the season. That being said, he had to face 40 shots, which tied for the highest number of shots faced in a single game for him this season. I was more confident than most on Ullmark this [...]

I did not shop on Black Friday at all. Not just because I had to write the Ramblings, but because I have nothing to buy for myself and I’m not ready to start Christmas shopping yet. Plus I don’t care for mall crowds. If you don’t like shopping, fortunately there were a LOT of hockey [...]

Nico Hischier was once again at practice for New Jersey on Thursday. As mentioned by Amanda Stein, this makes several practices/morning skates now that Hischier has been on the ice. It certainly doesn’t seem as if there’s been any sort of setback as he returns from his ‘upper-body’ injury, though there is still no definitive [...]

First off, Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends, family, and readers in America. We hope that everyone enjoying this holiday does so with lots of food, football, family, and friends.  Secondly, this will be a brief Ramblings. I lost power where I am and it's been 12 hours and counting. This is being written in [...]

With no games last night, and also none on the docket for Thursday (wouldn’t want to compete with American Thanksgiving football), this seems like a good time to take a look at the state of the league, upcoming schedules, and how to set yourself up the rest of the way. Ottawa’s only game of the [...]

One of the players I was personally high on heading into the 2023-24 was Montreal’s Rafael Harvey-Pinard. He seemed to mesh very well with Nick Suzuki after the injury to Cole Caufield last season. That, and an ability to land a lot of hits, made me think there was some sneaky banger value here. Things [...]

Aleksander Barkov wasn’t on the ice for Sunday’s practice and won’t play against the Oilers on Monday. Florida’s captain suffered a soft tissue injury after taking a knee-on-knee hit during Friday’s clash with the Ducks. Coach Paul Maurice seemed optimistic when speaking about the injury, suggesting the outcome was better than they originally thought. https://twitter.com/JamesonCoop/status/1726290056598691849 [...]

There was a full slate of games on Saturday night, so there is plenty to discuss. Let’s get right to it. - With 16 points in 17 games, Travis Sanheim is presently Philadelphia’s leading scorer. I had been totally sleeping on this breakout. So as someone posted a week ago in the forums, “is he [...]

On Friday, William Nylander put on a show for friends, family and fans on home soil, tallying three points in game two of the NHL’s Global Series in Sweden. Although he was born in Canada, Nylander’s roots are in Sweden. He’s a citizen of both countries but represents Sweden on the world stage. Fuelled by [...]

Coming into last night’s games, the Vancouver Canucks trio of Quinn Hughes, Elias Pettersson, and J.T. Miller was tied for the league lead in scoring, with 26 points each. I’m not sure if that has ever happened before with a three-way tie for the league lead in scoring (past the first couple games of a [...]