Hockey Rambling

The good news for Matvei Michkov fantasy owners is that he was back in the lineup on Monday as the Philadelphia Flyers hosted San Jose Sharks. The bad news is that he was skating on the second line with Ryan Poehling and Anthony Richard. Not that Flyers lines stay together for very long, but this [...]

With today being Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada, we have an early game scheduled for 12:30 PM EST between the Habs and Sabres, so make sure to set your lineups in advance! ~ Valeri Nichushkin will be back in the lineup this week, set to make his season debut on [...]

Could the Sabres be trying to showcase Bowen Byram? With 32:34 of icetime, Byram registered more icetime in a game than any player this season. Byram did not earn a point on Saturday, but he is still hot recently with five points over his last five games. You may have heard that Byram has been [...]

Auston Matthews missed his second consecutive game on Friday, but that was no problem for the Leafs, who were victorious over the Wings by a score of 3-1. Matthews may return to the lineup tonight in the Saturday night clash with the Habs. In Matthews’ absence, Matthew Knies has been on the top power play. [...]

Across Philadelphia’s first nine games, the only forward to have more ice time per game than Matvei Michkov was Travis Konecny. However, in his next four games, Michkov failed to reach 16 minutes in any of them, and averaged 14:41. This team is still coached by John Tortorella, so the writing was on the wall, [...]

It was October 28th when Edmonton’s Connor McDavid left a game early after jamming his foot into the boards. He escaped serious injury, but the timeline was 2-3 weeks before a return. We can throw that timeline out the window because just nine days later, McDavid returned to action on Wednesday night with the Oilers [...]

I’m back after a brief hiatus as I’m trying to manage a full house. Thanks to Ian and Brennan for filling in for me. I don’t know about you but I’m also really ready to be done with election coverage. Let’s get back to hockey. * Artturi Lehkonen returned to action for the Avalanche last [...]

The injury to Mathew Barzal has put the New York Islanders in a tough spot. He is easily their best playmaker and despite his slow start (five points in 10 games), they need him if they want to consistently look dangerous offensively. In response to the injury, the Islanders changed their PP units on Sunday [...]

Battle of New York. Battle of top-tier Russian netminders. Ilya Sorokin didn’t come away with the best numbers, but he made a bunch of big saves and fell victim to a bit of bad luck. This was the first time this season – a seven-game span – that he allowed more than three goals. Igor [...]

Joonas Korpisalo picked up his first shutout as a Bruin, which was a 20-save effort against the Flyers. Korpisalo has back-to-back quality starts in the two full games he has played in. As Jeremy Swayman catches up after missing training camp due to his contract situation, Korpisalo could see a little more action than he [...]