Hockey Rambling

It has been a brutal preseason for goalies as Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko’s injury status is uncertain, Boston’s Jeremy Swayman still hasn’t signed a contract, and it was revealed Ilya Sorokin suffered an offseason back injury that require surgery. It isn’t outlandish to think that if all three were healthy/signed and in the lineup for Game [...]

Two more days until real games. We're almost there! Continuing from last week, I have some training camp notes on players that have caught my eye. As a Predators fan, I was really hoping to see a new second line of Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault, and Tommy Novak. That line has been together quite a [...]

Kaiden Guhle was back at practice for Montreal on Monday. He was in a non-contact jersey but has over a week to get up to speed so it seems he may be ready for the start of the regular season. Guhle had 22 points, 56 PIMs, and 294 hits+blocks in 70 games last season, so [...]

https://twitter.com/SinBinVegas/status/1839741207939035536 It looks like Noah Hanifin has the luxury of starting on Vegas’ top power play, but Shea Theodore will be champing at the bit if he falters. The sample is small but after Hanifin was promoted to the top unit on April 2nd, he racked up eight power-play points in 14 games over the [...]

Patrik Laine’s fresh start with the Canadiens might have to be put on hold for a while. Laine was forced to leave Saturday’s preseason game against Toronto after taking a knee-on-knee hit from Cedric Pare. Following the game, Laine was seen on crutches with a brace on his left knee. Once he is evaluated further, [...]

It’s only the preseason and all of Auston Matthews, William Nylander, and John Tavares are already dealing with injuries. All of the injuries have been described using the words “day-to-day”, “minor”, “dinged up”, and “precautionary,” so none of these players need to be pushed down draft rankings. Just don’t be surprised if one or more [...]

Despite the Toronto Maple Leafs icing a mostly-NHL lineup on Thursday night, Auston Matthews was not in the lineup. He left practice a couple of days ago but it was not considered a serious issue. As always, the hope with things like this is the team is just being very cautious with a key player, [...]

We will start today with some injury news. There have been nervous fantasy managers around the league as far as goaltending is concerned. Thatcher Demko’s season out in Vancouver is still very muddled, Jeremy Swayman has yet to sign with Boston, and now another quick update on New York Islanders goaltender Ilya Sorokin: https://twitter.com/stefen_rosner/status/1838964384464327075 Sorokin [...]

With a three-year-old and infant twins at home I haven’t done nearly the research or the number of mock drafts that I would usually like to when approaching draft season, but regardless I have still zeroed in on a handful of my favourite selections after pick 150 or so. We’re using Yahoo’s ADP numbers because [...]

Anthony Duclair was still on the New York Islanders’ top PP unit in practice yesterday. Projections will be discussed later but having L1/PP1 status matters a lot to Duclair’s 2024-25 fantasy outlook. * Buffalo Sabres defenceman Rasmus Dahlin was skating before Buffalo’s practice as he had been injured very, very early in training camp: https://twitter.com/engelheather/status/1838210339076296809 [...]