Hockey Rambling

In the second game of back-to-backs, the Rangers ended their five-game losing streak. Kaapo Kakko scored a power-play goal with only 24 seconds remaining to secure a 4-3 win over Montreal on Saturday.   Artemi Panarin and Mika Zibanejad each scored a goal and added an assist, both breaking mini-slumps in the process. Zibanejad finished [...]

LOTS of early Black Friday hockey, so I won’t waste your time with a lengthy intro.   The knives are out on the Rangers, who have now lost five consecutive games. (Comparing them to the NFL Giants and Jets? Nasty!) Along with being out of the lineup due to an upper-body injury, Chris Kreider is [...]

The Canucks’ injury situation might be getting worse before it gets better. According to multiple reports, Filip Hronek is expected to be out for a while after being injured late in Wednesday’s game against Pittsburgh. Hronek is valuable to the Canucks as Quinn Hughes’s partner on the top pair and a mainstay on the second [...]

Perhaps more than any other team in the league this season, the Colorado Avalanche have been really battling the injury bug. While they have been getting some key players back in the lineup over the last couple weeks, they had another one go back on the injury list as winger Jonathan Drouin is week-to-week: https://twitter.com/jessemontano_/status/1861796250062143827 [...]

It’s good to be back, if only for a one-off for now. It’s just great to dip my toes in the fantasy hockey waters again, beyond just keeping up with my three keeper leagues and Dobbernomics. * Boston’s woes continue, although on the bright side Jeremy Swayman has now posted back-to-back Quality Starts and has [...]

It was a busy day in Montreal news as winger Joshua Roy was recalled from the AHL. Despite making it to the NHL last season, he started the 2024-25 campaign in Laval with eight goals and eight assists in 16 games, averaging 3.4 shots per game. At practice on Monday, he was skating on Jake [...]

On Sunday, the Blues fired head coach Drew Bannister and replaced him with Jim Montgomery – who the Bruins had fired five days ago. Read Ian’s take on the fantasy implications of this move here.   ~ Fortunately, the lower-body injury which kept Kirill Kaprizov out of Saturday’s clash with Calgary doesn’t seem serious. He’s [...]

Kirill Kaprizov was a late scratch on Saturday afternoon due to a lower-body injury. Kaprizov briefly left a game against Edmonton earlier in the week after a knee-on-knee hit from Drake Caggiula, so the injury seems to be related to that. Since Kaprizov returned to that game, this injury seemed more day-to-day than one that [...]

A 120-41-23 record as Bruins head coach wasn’t enough for Jim Montgomery to save his job. Yet NHL coaching is very much a “what have you done for me lately” business, and the Bruins’ season seemed to be spiraling in the wrong direction. Roster construction is certainly an issue, which is why Don Sweeney isn’t [...]

It has been a very tough go for Carolina goaltender Frederik Andersen over the last few years. There have been a slew of injuries, notably the blood clot that kept him out of action for most of the 2023-24 season. As for this season, it looks like he may be out at least until late [...]