Hockey Rambling

There are just 10 days until the Trade Deadline and the Washington Capitals have a number of players that will garner interest, including both Anthony Mantha and Nic Dowd. Both have been injured recently, though, and that’s always a concern at this time of year. There was good news at practice with Mantha back on [...]

Nikita Kucherov became the first player to break the 100-point mark this year, a title held by Connor McDavid for the past three seasons. Kucherov registered a point on all four of Tampa’s goals, bringing him to 102 points through 59 games. One of the things fuelling Kucherov’s career season is an increased willingness to [...]

Of course, the morning (to me) after I applaud Jordan Binnington for his bounce-back season, he is tagged with a really bad start after allowing four goals in the first period against Detroit. Remember the old SI cover jinx? It lives in a way at Dobber Hockey. The goals might not be all his fault, [...]

The minor trade on Thursday involving Emil Bemstrom and Alex Nylander should barely generate a ripple in most fantasy leagues. Yet since I was discussing it with at least a couple people in private conversations, I’ll share my thoughts here. With the injury (and possible trade) of Jake Guentzel, Bemstrom is in a similar boat [...]

Colorado got a key piece to their lineup back, though it’s not Gabriel Landeskog or Valeri Nichushkin (yet). Logan O’Connor returned to the lineup for Colorado on Thursday night, having missed four games. O’Connor went into that game third on the team in 5-on-5 goals with nine, and he has the lowest on-ice goals against [...]

There was good news out of Toronto as goalie Joseph Woll was sent to the AHL for a conditioning stint, the next step on his way back from an ankle injury that has kept him out of the lineup for two and a half months. How many games he ultimately plays down there remains to [...]

Nico Daws got another start, and in a game that could have affording him much more leash through to the trade deadline, but instead Alex Ovechkin (two goals, one assist, two hits, and four shots) and the Capitals turned back the clock to the early 2010s and put up a six-spot on him. If that [...]

Miro Heiskanen was out of the Dallas lineup on Monday afternoon as he was away from the team for the birth of his child. With Jani Hakanpää and Nils Lundkvist already out, the Stars dressed Joel Hanley and called up some AHL depth to fill out the blue line. It is always interesting to see [...]

Happy Family Day to (most of) our Canadian readers, Happy Presidents’ Day to our American readers, and Happy Monday to everyone else. With Monday being a holiday in much of the NHL’s territory, puck drop starts at 12:30 PM EST, so make sure to set your lineups early! Since there were only three games on [...]

Skating out of the penalty box, Brandt Clarke scored the overtime winner (his first NHL goal) for the Kings over Boston. Clarke now has points in back-to-back games as well as seven shots over that span. Clarke and Jordan Spence have basically been alternating out of the lineup, but it seems like Clarke has earned [...]