Jacob Fowler already redefining the goaltending position, I see

Rangers on pace to be shut out 15 times FWIW Always good to be keeping company with teams that weren't allowed to pass forwards, an expansion team coached by Jacques Lemaire and the 14/15 Sabres

Almost went two whole hours without seeing a new Canadian Olympic Team Roster Projection, got a bit tense for a moment, but all good now

The first rule of publishing a way-too-early Trade Deadline Big Board (at least a month later than a competitor did) is to acknowledge that it’s a way-too-early Trade Deadline Big Board

Was always going to be a grind to create offense against this Chicago team that gave up 13 goals and 85 shots in their past two games

Ryan Greene, Oliver Moore and Sam Lafferty are all 32-year-old PGA Tour pros with $8m career earnings and a best finish of T2 at the 2019 John Deere Classic

This Suspension To A Leafs Player Is A Further Example Of A Decades Long Bias And Conspiracy Against My Buds With Its Insidious Tentacles Running Right Through Every Level Of The League’s Structure vs. No It Isn’t

Jakob Chychrun: Game-time decision (candle burns)

Need to send a minimum of four Hockey Insiders to stand outside a boardroom in Colorado Springs though

Surely David Quinn has a strategy to suppress Brett Howden’s offense to fall back on here?

Classy move by Bruce Classidy starting Howden against his former team

“It’s time” meaning every day for the past four years

So Brent Burns is now retroactively getting credited for goals he scored as a forward in his tally as a defenseman because he’s passed Lidström in career goals?

Welcome back

The trajectory of Makar’s shot hitting Cuylle that high from so close means it would’ve taken out the Billy Joel banner had it continued on its path

A technically borderline hit to the head that shouldn’t be borderline but the league has consistently permitted, by a player with a history of them? Let’s see how aggrieved Tom Wilson is about it.

Wow, Stützle even dives when taking a shot on a clear breakaway

Tremendous Maloney family

Most recent Rangers D to have a 10-goal season without having another before or since (for any team) is Ryan McDonagh, who I wouldn’t have guessed only had one

Classy move by Sully starting Zibanejad against his former team

Add the Ryan McDonagh re-signing to the huge pile of evidence of players avoiding teams that shabbily force players like Ryan McDonagh to accept trades elsewhere

What Will Our Canadian Employees’ Next Contract Look Like?

Maybe ten days

“Kyle Capobianco, Dave, no relation to long-time PGA Tour professional, Tom Weiskopf”

Playing against a team with some injuries and DeSmith in goal, so it doesn’t count anyway if they win

Obviously I had to audit this… Tortorella’s teams lost 8 of 10 series when starting on the road and lost Games 1 and 2 in one of the two series he won (8-12 record overall in Games 1 and 2 on the road) Not counting neutral site games in 19/20 here

BIG-BOY PANTSORTUNITY

Season going nowhere, might as well lean into Finnish Brendan Smith

Adam Fox's career injury history Rangers' record in those games (FWIW in such a small sample): 20/21: 0-0-1 21/22: 2-1-0 23/24: 7-2-1 24/25: 3-3-2

Why am I only finding out now that Marcel Hossa got a third place vote for the 2006/07 All-Star team at left wing? (Obvious explanation is obvious but still funny)

Rangers at home this season on a single-handed mission to disprove the existence of score effects

I went to a live reading of Darren Raddysh’s Wikipedia page and a hockey game broke out

Rangers at least eschewing the tried and tested play OK in the first period at home then disintegrate strategy in this one

Gavrikov turning into Kreider for a week

Pang on his 15th go at letting us know Geekie is a “kid from Manitoba”

Urho Vaakanainen-led Winter Classic promo?

Has TNT always had the annoying ticker*, or is it just annoying me more now? *Not referring to Bissonnette on this occasion

.@Canes Release the Brind’Amour inspirational second intermission locker room speech video anyway

Just became eerier

Once again

Taylor Raddysh has 1G+1A in 15 games since his hat trick, eerily reminiscent of previous unlikely Ranger hat trick man Matt Puempel’s 1G+2A in his next (and final) 15 games

No Sam and Joe and no tremendous familying really hits home for a game with a Staal (in absentia), son of Blake and son of Robidas

I was out by four seconds on the Schenn goal. Spooky. (Ignore everything else.)

Might as well give Gavrikov a shot as a top six forward at this point

Brayden Schenn (4) EN C. Parayko (8), O. Sundkvist (10) STL 3 - NYR 0 (18:41 - 3RD)

“Dalibor Dvorský, Brian, no relation to former NHL official, Paul Devorski.” “Well duh, Kenny.”

Drury’s not going to let it being the anniversary of his ill-fated memo on National Sardines Day ruin his National Sardines Day

Sure glad the team I follow isn’t in this position

Nothing is extremely difficult when you’re the mighty, er…Buffalo Sabres?

Shesterkin’s goals saved vs expected numbers take a massive hit after being (technically) beaten by a shot from the other end of the rink