Hockey Rambling

We've reached that point in every hockey season where the schedule gets lighter, and lighter, until the NHL-game faucet is switched off entirely for the summer. It's a bittersweet time, on the one hand the hockey being played in the conference finals and the Memorial Cup should be rivetting; on the other, hockey is almost [...]

Sadly for the viewers, the third Game 7 of the second round wasn’t as exciting as the other two. This wasn’t much of a contest as the Kings jumped out to a 5-0 lead and never looked back.   After a handful of narrow escapes, my two Cup teams are still alive in New York [...]

I am honored to be making my ramblings debut today as I follow in Gates' footsteps to "John Gibson" myself into the mix. There were no games last night which sucks... but there is no shortage of fantasy-relevant information worth mentioning.   Before I begin, hats off to forum member "Axeman33" for posting a bunch [...]

  With several key DobberHockey members out of office, I had the opportunity to “John Gibson” my way into the rotating line up.  Let’s get started.   *   When I look back at the second round, I think about the article by Sean McIndoe where he showcased the idea of a repeat final four. [...]

    No Ramblings for me for several months, then I get to step up to the plate [wait - what’s the equivalent of that in hockey parlance………maybe skate up to the faceoff dot?] to do ramblings twice in a matter of three weeks! Hopefully I didn’t exhaust all of my good material the last [...]

Montreal beat Boston 4-0 to force a Game 7 on Wednesday night. The Canadiens never looked in danger of losing this one, jumping on the Bruins right away.   Max Pacioretty scored his first goal of the series and also added an assist to go along with three shots. He and David Desharnais had gone [...]

The movie Neighbors opened this weekend and I was able to see an afternoon showing on Sunday. It had some funny moments, and as you might expect, not much in the way of a plot. There was however a strong underlying theme throughout. It essentially tried to say that as you get older the activities [...]

Saturday was a good day for teams named after animals (the Bruins and Ducks) and a bad day for teams named after types of people (Kings and Canadiens). It was a pretty entertaining night of hockey, all told, even if the Anaheim Ducks completely stopped playing offense in their 2-0 shutout victory of the Los [...]

The Rangers avoided elimination with a big 5-1 win over the Penguins on Friday night.   Derick Brassard and Mats Zuccarello sparked the victory with three points each. They are going to have to pick up the slack as long as Derek Stepan and Rick Nash continue to struggle. Nash picked up an assist on [...]

What a goalie battle between the Habs and Bruins last night! It honestly felt like no one would score. Of course, as is often the case, the deadlock was eventually ended by a pretty lucky goal – the first of Matt Fraser’s career. Good timing, kid!   The Bruins probably deserved some luck having struck [...]