Hockey Rambling

Dominant performance for the Vancouver Canucks last night but they played the Buffalo Sabres so anything less would have been disappointing.   Roberto Luongo recorded a much needed shutout, as he has struggled to start the year. Luongo does this every year though, so I’d expect the improvements to keep on coming. Seriously, look at [...]

Well, well, well. That didn’t take long. Henrik Lundqvist bounced back in a big way with a shutout of the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night. In fact, the whole Rangers squad appeared rejuvenated after three days off and a return to the East coast. They outshot the Caps 36-22 for their second win of the [...]

Excuse us while we go through some site upgrades over the next three weeks. Funky things like that annoying, weird 'A' between lines, the RSS feed, sporadic (but thankfully short) downtimes will happen. I'm hoping all sites upgraded before November. * Jacob Markstrom keeps getting starts for Florida, but he keeps piling up losses. He's [...]

*   In a slightly surprising move, James Reimer gets the start tonight for Toronto. Jonathan Bernier had been on a nice run, but he did give up five goals on Saturday.   James van Riemsdyk is questionable with an unspecified injury.   * Not all that shocking, but it appears Chris Pronger's playing days [...]

The following ramblings are in high-Dobbernition. If you click on a player name, you are taken to his profile for the full lowdown on recent line combos, stats and news (with links). * I've always felt that Mathieu Perreault had scoring-line potential, but some Washington fans and insiders insisted that he was a hustling checker [...]

Thomas and I swapped nights so you’ve got me for the big Saturday recap. Strap yourselves in because last night was a doozy! * The Boston Bruins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-1 in the afternoon game. Typical Bruins performance. They outshot the Blue Jackets 35-27, failed on all of their power play attempts, spread [...]

The Philadelphia Flyers can’t score. They have six goals in five games and Friday’s 2-1 loss to the Phoenix Coyotes showed no signs that their lack of production would improve anytime soon. Both Scott Hartnell and Vincent Lecavalier left the game with injuries and according to Paul Holmgren they will each miss at least a [...]

  Let's start in Boston, where the Colorado Avalanche and netminder J.S. Giguere shutout the Boston Bruins to improve to 4-0-0.   The Avalanche are easily the biggest surprise of the 2013-14 regular season so far, racking up points against pretty good teams (the Ducks, Bruins, Maple Leafs in particular).   Colorado's early season success [...]

  Pretty slow night with only three games. The first game of the night was a battle between the Central Division juggernauts the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks. It was a tight back-and-forth affair. Each time St. Louis pulled ahead, the Blackhawks responded with minutes with a tally of their own. Ultimately the Blues [...]