Hockey Rambling

  Take two more players off the trade market. Todd Bertuzzi has reportedly signed a two-year extension and TSN reports that Tuomo Ruutu has signed for four more years.   Vincent Lecavalier is out “indefinitely” with a hand/wrist injury. He was seen wearing a soft cast over his right hand and wrist.   Players dropped [...]

  Some injury notes for you - Pavel Datsyuk is out two weeks after knee surgery. And Jonathan Toews is day to day with an upper body injury.   Between Grossman and Kubina, the Flyers added over 480 pounds. I hadn’t realized they were so big. Found that interesting.   Didn’t I say that Sutter [...]

  Just a reminder to pick up the DobberBaseball Fantasy Guide, if you haven’t already.   Blake Wheeler has seven points in his last two games. He has 39 points in his last 41 games, breaking through in this his fourth NHL campaign.   I was asked on the weekend by a buddy what I [...]

    Enjoy Hockey Day in America... any chance to celebrate this sport is a good one. It looks like NBC is splitting up its triple header by having back-to-back games on the main network, with the third tilt going on the NBC Sports Network.   Pretty effective exposure for the league, although hard-core fans [...]

  Wayne Gretzky scored 92 goals back in 1981-82. The LA Kings have 120 goals all season. A completely irrelevant comparison, sure, but still pretty funny.   The 2012 DobberBaseball Guide is now out - pick it up here.   Nicklas Grossman will be making his Flyer debut tonight, playing with Andrej Meszaros.   PK [...]

  Mike Smith has consecutive shutouts, and he has allowed only six goals in a personal six-game winning streak. He's been huge for Phoenix all season. Maybe the Flyers would be interested in acquiring him to shore up their goaltending issues?   Ryan Johansen has been a healthy scratch in five of the last seven [...]

  Minor NHL trade - Edmonton has shipped out Ryan O'Marra to Anaheim in exchange for defenseman Bryan Rodney. Neither player has any fantasy upside. Rodney had 11 points in 22 games two years ago in Carolina, and he's been a solid point-producer in the AHL for the last while.   Frozen Pool analysis on [...]

  Marek Zidlicky has waived his NTC for the Devils. We'll see if the Wild can come up with a trade to move him there. If so, his value goes from zilch to pretty high, while Kurtis Foster will slip quite a bit.   Wojtek Wolski has five points in six games for Connecticut of [...]

  It's Valentine's Day today. Reminding any fellas out there with a wife or girlfriend to write a poem or order flowers. Don't forget! (okay, this is actually to remind ME, when I wake up in the morning ... but hopefully it helps you too)   It's now difficult to see Tuomo Ruutu getting traded. [...]

  DobberBaseball’s Fantasy Guide is out, you can pick it up here.   Mike Comrie, who recently underwent hip surgery for the third time in two years, has announced his retirement.   In a minor deal, the Jets have traded Riley Holzapfel to the Ducks for Maxime Macenaur.   Pierre-Marc Bouchard is still suffering from [...]