Hockey Rambling

Of all the games I caught at least a part of on Saturday, the Pittsburgh/Tampa Bay game was easily the most enjoyable. Playoff implications, goal swings, and standout performances from some established stars. The Penguins finished with a 5-4 win, grabbing a playoff spot in the process. Considering where they were when they traded Jake [...]

Jack Quinn scored a pair of goals for the Sabres in their 4-2 win over Philadelphia on Friday. Quinn also took four shots and blocked two more. Quinn has a very respectable 15 points in 22 games, which would put him on a 56-point pace over a full season. Unfortunately, he’s spent too much time [...]

You should probably wait to fill out your playoff bracket or playoff pool, particularly for the Eastern Conference. With the way the Flyers, Red Wings, Capitals, Islanders, or Penguins have played at times this season, how confident are you that one of them can advance past the first round? There appears to be a clear [...]

Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said that winger Nino Niederreiter will be out a week after suffering a cut to his leg. It doesn’t appear it will affect his playoff status at any point, which is important for the team. There was some other important news from Winnipeg practice as Tyler Toffoli was back after missing [...]

I know Brennan mentioned Jamie Benn yesterday, but I also wanted to touch on him as someone that has been a huge piece of helping one of my teams into the fantasy finals this week, with his scoring revival of seven goals across a six-game scoring streak from mid- to late-March.  Last year’s 76-point-pace is [...]

After missing 16 games due to an upper-body injury, Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Jamie Drysdale was back in the lineup on Monday night, and slotted onto the top power play unit. There had been top PP time for Cam York with Drysdale injured, and York had been playing heavy minutes, so this will cut into all [...]

Although there was only one game on Sunday, it served as a make-or-break matchup for many fantasy leagues. I personally suffered the less favourable of those fates, losing my semi-final matchup on Vancouver’s game-winning goal, as my opponent collected assists from J.T. Miller and Conor Garland. For a while I was inconsolable, regretting every lineup [...]

Happy Easter, everyone! I’ll be filling in for Ian today. I know, I know, it’s like getting a bran bar instead of a chocolate egg, but with 15 games on Saturday, there’s no time to wallow in disappointment. Let’s get into the action! ~ Aleksander Barkov’s third period heroics led Florida to a 3-2 shootout [...]

If you wanted to watch an NHL game on Friday, the Devils/Sabres matchup was your only option. Saturday will have lots more to choose from with 15 games on the schedule. If you needed scoring, Tage Thompson was easily the best option. Thompson finished with four goals, leading the Sabres to a 5-2 win over [...]

There were 14 games on Thursday and will be just one on Friday. So that I can spread the workload more evenly over two days, I’ll focus mainly on the early games today while discussing noteworthy happenings from the later games tomorrow. - Juraj Slafkovsky has consistently been one of the top-searched players on Frozen [...]