Hockey Rambling

Morning update: Alex Tanguay had a setback in his recovery from his knee injury and will be sidelined indefinitely. In this article, it sounds pretty bad and I wouldn't count on him before February. ** Anyone have any side bets as to what I'd kick off today's ramblings with, after watching the highlights of last [...]

Dion Phaneuf has been suspended two games for his hit on Kevan Miller Sunday.   *   The Pittsburgh Penguins edged the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Monday night in a pretty competitive matchup.   Once again goaltender Curtis McElhinney looked solid stopping 28-of-30 shots. He is coming off a shutout in his last game [...]

Some afternoon updates for you: James Neal gets five games for his knee on Brad Marchand's head. Evgeni Malkin will apparently be back in the lineup for the Pens. The Islanders have waived Pierre-Marc Bouchard and word is that they will call up Ryan Strome. I think Strome is worth a grab off the wire [...]

  Easily the biggest story on Saturday night was the Boston batterings. I was in theScore newsroom all evening covering the NHL and the barbarism in Boston completely dominated my night. Here's how I covered Shawn Thornton's mugging of Brooks Orpik, Loui Eriksson's latest concussion (ugh), and James Neal's knee to the head of Brad [...]

It looks like the Columbus Blue Jackets are going to run with Curtis McElhinney while Sergei Bobrovsky is out of action and he got off to a decent start on Friday night. McElhinney pitched a 20-save shutout and has a respectable .932 save percentage in nine games this season. That’s all well and good, but [...]

Who says the East is least? Out of the five cross-conference games last night four were won by the Eastern squad and it wasn’t like these were Eastern powers beating up on Western cupcakes. For one thing, there are no Eastern powers. For another, the only cupcakes in the West reside in Alberta and neither [...]

Only three games last night but don’t worry, I’ve got lots of material for you…   *   Make sure you vote in our latest Cage Match Tournament, my single greatest creation. Rick Roos is running this one, so make sure you direct all complaints to him!   *   You also have to read [...]

Henrik Lundqvist has signed a seven-year extension worth $59.5 million * Andrej Sekera was back in the lineup for the Hurricanes and has truly emerged as their go-to PP guy. He played 24:21 with 4:41 on the PP and scored his career-high sixth goal. Other than his fragility, there is no reason why he shouldn't [...]

The Winnipeg Jets beat the New York Rangers 5-2 on Monday likely putting an end to the Cam Talbot experiment by Alain Vigneault. Talbot started his second straight game for New York, but never really was a realistic threat of vulturing starts away from Henrik Lundqvist in the long-term. Expect Lundqvist to regain his regular [...]

Steve Downie is third on the Philadelphia Flyers in scoring. Say what? * The guy who is third in scoring on the Buffalo Sabres has nine points. Huh? * Brad Richards is having a weak season, as I had projected. But he's still leading the Rangers in scoring. Wha? * And just like that, Evgeni [...]