Down the Frozen River

Category: Weekly Bumblings

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 23

    Skater of the Week: Alex Pietrangelo How about the defenseman getting some love, huh? In all honesty, this wasn’t even a case of picking him out for having a stellar week ‘as a defenseman’, he lead the entire league in scoring last week full-stop. The 6-foot-3 210 pound King City, Ont. native racked up three goals…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 22

    Skater of the Week: Brad Marchand Yeah, I know, it hurts me to do it. But eight points in three games is a tough stat line to argue against. *leans away from microphone looking off to stage right* THAT’LL BE ENOUGH OUT OF YOU, @nlanciani53! WE KNOW HE’S GOOD, WE JUST REALLY HATE HIS FACE! Anyway,…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 21

    Skater of the Week: Nathan MacKinnon MacKinnon was the definition of an unstoppable force this week, and he encountered no immovable objects. With five goals (two on the power play, and two game-winners), six assists (also two on the power play), and 11 points in four games, his breakout campaign continues to the tune of 77…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 20

    Skater of the Week: Evgeni Malkin Two games. Two games is all Geno played this entire week, and he still scored six points. Currently riding a six-game point streak with 13 total points in that time, Malkin is just torching everything in his path. In his two contests this past week he tallied a goal and…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 19

    Skater of the Week: Nico Hischier Boy, what a devil of a week for this kid, huh? HUH? (not even crickets chirp for this pun) In four games, the 19-year-old centerman put up four goals (one in each game) and three assists for seven points, and is currently riding a five-game point streak overall. A +8…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 18

    Skater of the Week: Connor McDavid It feels sort of wrong that he hadn’t won this until now. Just doesn’t seem possible, right? Likely a byproduct of the abysmal season Edmonton is having, McDavid has been enjoying a solid if less-than-stellar season (he’s still put up 64 points in 54 games, we’re just talking about the…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Weeks 16 & 17

    Another two-week special, courtesy of a trip to the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Skater of the Week(s): Evgeni Malkin Hey, so, you know that thing the Penguins do where they trick everyone into thinking they’re not very good and then right around February they just start crapping in everyone’s Wheaties? Yeah, keep those cereal boxes sealed.…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 15

    Skater of the Week: Brad Marchand You may not (probably don’t) like him, but the Little Ball of Hate doesn’t give a damn about what you like. He’s gonna score on your team, and you’re gonna deal with it. The league’s premiere super-pest tallied two goals and five assists in four contests this week, made arguably…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Week 14

    Skater of the Week: Mathew Barzal These bye-weeks are making things weird. Barzal gets the nod for this week’s award having only played one game during that span. But what a game it was. Helping his Islanders to a 7-2 rout of the rival Rangers, young Barzal tallied his second five-point game of his breakout rookie…

  • Merkle’s Weekly Bumblings: Weeks 12 & 13

    With New Years and the GLI preventing me from posting last week (and being out of town this weekend pushing this yet another day back) I’ll be combining the past two weeks of action, because I make the rules here and you all just have to deal with it. So there. Skater of the Week(s):…