Hockey Rambling

I’m standing in for the Ramblings for the second week in a row and as there were just two games on Sunday, I thought I’d breakdown both of them. Anaheim has been playing well in 2023-2024 and hit their peak to this point with a 4-2 win over the Vegas Golden Knights after scoring four [...]

Good morning/afternoon/evening everyone. I am covering for Ian today as he had a couple of prior commitments, but he’ll be back in his usual spot next weekend. The big news out of Minnesota over the last couple days was the move of Marco Rossi to the top line, with Matt Boldy coming along with him, [...]

Jack Hughes has raced out to the NHL scoring lead, but his season might have hit a detour. Hughes left Friday’s game in the first period with an upper-body injury after crashing into the boards following a scoring chance. https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1720602395070062693 According to Elliotte Friedman, it might take a day or two to figure out the [...]

Adam Fox left Thursday’s game with a lower-body injury after colliding leg on leg with Sebastian Aho. At the time of the injury, Fox was tied with Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes for the most points among defensemen (11 points). That was before Hughes and the Canucks teed off on the Sharks later Thursday evening. [...]

Two big pieces of news came down on Wednesday though neither are directly related to this fantasy season. Kind of. First off, Nicklas Backstrom announced he’s stepping away from the team for injury reasons, which seems pretty clearly to be that his hip hasn’t responded as he had hoped post-surgery. He did not look like [...]

Hoping everyone had a safe and fun Halloween. There were only two games on the light NHL schedule, which is uncommon for a Tuesday. The rest of the week still sees your usually stacked Thursday and Saturday slates, though with only one game left from the Penguins and three from more than a handful of [...]

An interesting wrinkle with Winnipeg’s lineup on Monday night was that Cole Perfetti was moved to the top power play unit with Nikolaj Ehlers being bumped down. The top PP unit had three goals in eight games, which isn’t awful, but they had gone three straight contests without tallying. This was the change they decided [...]

The good news for Edmonton and Calgary was that one of them was going to come out of Sunday’s Heritage Classic with a much-needed victory. In the end, the Oilers won 5-2 and more importantly for them, Connor McDavid returned to the lineup after missing two games, Evander Kane had a goal and two assists [...]

Connor McDavid’s original timeline was 1-2 weeks for his upper-body injury, but he skated on Saturday and could play in the Heritage Classic today. You shouldn’t need us to tell you to make sure he’s in your lineup, although this could be a true game-time decision. Hopefully he’s not being rushed back to play in [...]

Andrei Svechnikov made his season debut on Friday, playing his first game since injuring his ACL in March. He did not record any points, but he was credited with three hits and four shots in 13:40 on a line with Stefan Noesen and Jack Drury. Not exactly the Canes’ top line, and he didn’t play [...]