Hockey Rambling

It has not been the start to the season Buffalo wanted (7-8-1) and the injuries are starting to rack up. It started before the season with the Achilles injury to winger Jack Quinn and has included winger Alex Tuch for the last week (more on him in a bit). The latest was Tage Thompson, who [...]

I’m not sure when Charlie McAvoy is going to fully get his due as a top-five defenceman in the NHL, but he has been one for a while now. He had two assists last night to bring his season total to 11 points in 11 games. To boot, he’s dominant defensively, and is no slouch [...]

All told, it wasn’t a bad start to Jonas Johansson’s Tampa Bay tenure with a .925 save percentage (including two shutouts) in his first seven games. That has gone very south very quickly, though, as he’s posted an .861 save percentage in his last five outings, allowing at least four goals in all of them. [...]

Hello and welcome to my first Ramblings as an Associate Editor for DobberHockey. I wish it was under different circumstances, but as most of you know, Dobber is taking some time away from the website as he prepares to kick cancer’s ass for a second time. Aside from sending love and strength to one of [...]

The Oilers were able to pick up a desperately needed win on Saturday, and that was in spite of neither Connor McDavid or Leon Draisaitl hitting the scoresheet. This in spite of the twin towers being used as an even-strength unit along with Warren Foegele. McDavid is officially cold with no points in his last [...]

We’re now approaching mid-November. The team that you picked to win the Stanley Cup (and many of our experts, too) is buried at the bottom of the NHL sea, having just lost to what is widely considered the most toothless opponent in the NHL. Your fantasy team with one or more name-brand Oilers is underachieving. [...]

Something that had been a bit confounding – maybe a lot confounding – about the Calgary Flames is their utter refusal to even bother giving minor league goalie Dustin Wolf a shot at the NHL level. Wolf, the back-to-back goalie of the year in the AHL, had a .924 save percentage in the AHL so [...]

The Minnesota Wild made some adjustments to their blueline on Wednesday by trading Calen Addison to the San Jose Sharks, then turning around and getting Zach Bogosian from Tampa Bay. I wrote up a bit on the Addison trade already so go check that out if you haven’t already. I will say that it’s one [...]

Jack Campbell being waved was a first step in Oilers management pushing the panic button. It sounds as though the plan is to look internally first, but I would imagine if that doesn’t work, then a trade for Cal Petersen, Jake Allen, Dan Vladar, Anton Forsberg, or Chris Dreidger could come to fruition very quickly. [...]

Even with a fantastic start to the season, there is cause for concern in New Jersey as Nico Hischier appeared to suffer a concussion in a game against Buffalo, and he’s not played in over a week. To make matters worse, Jack Hughes suffered an upper-body injury and missed time over the weekend. On the [...]