Hockey Rambling

We’re barely a week into the season, and already the questions are pouring in about whether to drop a struggling goalie. In fact, it’s a usual rite of passage of every fantasy hockey season. This season, the goalies happen to be Alexandar Georgiev and Tristan Jarry. I didn’t expand on the stats too much when [...]

This game was a wildly entertaining contest from start to finish. Buffalo held a 3-1 lead through the first half of the game and chased starting goalie Tristan Jarry from the net thanks to three goals on five shots. Peterka scored one of those three goals on a beautiful snipe on a 2-on-1 to garner [...]

As Columbus played their first home game of the season, everyone's heart was focused not on the game, but on a player that meant so much more - Johnny Gaudreau. The Blue Jackets honoured him with both teams wearing Gaudreau jerseys for warmups, and then saving him a spot at the opening faceoff. https://twitter.com/BlueJacketsNHL/status/1846321096959693004?t=dWDJ1l3M4S6w_M-i5KvP7A&s=19 https://twitter.com/BlueJacketsNHL/status/1846333825497911497?t=wfigUpaHF65zp7PkH8zgNw&s=19 [...]

There has been some early-season injury turbulence that has already hit the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. Adam Boqvist took a puck to the face and had to miss a game over the weekend, Aleksander Barkov injured his ankle and looks to be out a couple weeks at least, and Matthew Tkachuk missed a [...]

Three games, three wins for Connor Hellebuyck and the Winnipeg Jets. Hellebuyck has conceded just two goals over these three games, stopping 81 of 83 shots, and handsomely rewarding fantasy managers that used an early pick to acquire him.  With a goal and assist against Minnesota, Mark Scheifele has now posted two points in each [...]

It’s the first Saturday night of the NHL season! Lots to talk about, so I’ll break down what I noticed from a fantasy perspective. Elias Lindholm is off to a great start with his new team. Lindholm scored a goal in the Bruins’ 2-1 matinee win over the Kings. That gives him points in all [...]

First off, it’s great to be back writing about actual games again. After a long summer of predictions and projections, we can finally find out how everything will play out. Following a memorable debut with a first-period goal and assist, Macklin Celebrini is considered questionable for tonight’s game with a lower-body injury. Celebrini was battling [...]

Following their trip to Europe, the injury news did not seem ideal for the Buffalo Sabres as both JJ Peterka and Zach Benson left games across the pond with different injuries. Both had returned to practice for the Sabres back in North America, but neither seemed probable to be in the lineup for the home [...]

There has been a lot of chatter over the last several months when it comes to goaltenders and contracts. There was Jeremy Swayman in Boston who didn’t get his extension until the weekend and thus didn’t start the season opener. There was also Ilya Sorokin and Connor Hellebuyck starting their new $8M+ AAV deals this [...]