Author: Patrick Hoffman

Patrick covers the NHL for Inside The Rink. He has previously covered the league for The Ultimate Hockey Fan Cave, WTP Sports, Sportsnet.ca, Kukla’s Korner, Spector’s Hockey, NHL Network Radio blog, TheHockeyNews.com, The Fourth Period, Stan Fischler’s “The Fischler Report”, as well as a slew of others.

Opinion: Should The Avalanche Be Worried About Georgiev’s Poor Play Between the Pipes?

There is no doubt that the Colorado Avalanche are true Stanley Cup contenders as the regular season inches toward the finish line. The team is currently (As of April 8) second in the Central Division, third in the Western Conference, and sixth in the league with a record of 48-24-6 for 102 points. They score […]

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Vasilevskiy Returning to Form for the Lightning

The beginning of the 2023-24 season was not a good one for Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. Vasilevskiy, 29, missed the first 20 games of the season while recovering from surgery to repair a herniated disc in his lower back. To make matters worse, the Lightning did not play well while Vasilevskiy was hurt. […]

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Penguins’ Nedeljkovic Coming Up Big At the Right Time

Coming into this season, Tristan Jarry was supposed to be the main man between the pipes for the Pittsburgh Penguins. On the first day of free agency, the Penguins signed Jarry, 28, to a five-year deal that runs through the 2027-28 season and carries an average annual value of $5.375 million. He was signed to […]

Rangers and Quick agree to an exrtension

Opinion: Presenting The NHL Awards – New York Rangers Version

Once the Stanley Cup Final is over, hockey fans shift their attention to the annual NHL Awards, which will take place on June 26. I will present the NHL Awards version for the New York Rangers for this article. Below, you will find my choices for several major NHL Awards including the Vezina Trophy (given […]

Rangers’ Quick Named a Nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy

Coming into this season, New York Ranger fans were not sure what to think when it came to the signing of goaltender Jonathan Quick. Last season, Quick, 38, struggled mightily. With the Los Angeles Kings, Quick was 11-13-0-4 with a 3.50 goals-against average, a .876 save percentage, with one shutout, and after being traded to […]

An Email Interview with Nick Bowins of Working in Hockey

About four months ago, I did a great email interview with Nick Bowins of Hockey Collective. I am proud to bring Nick back to talk with us about a new hockey-related venture he started called Working in Hockey. If you are serious about finding a career in hockey, this new outlet might be the perfect […]

Rangers’ Trocheck Continues to Prove His Worth

There were mixed reviews when the New York Rangers signed Vincent Trocheck to a seven-year, $39.75 million contract on July 13, 2022. On the one hand, they were getting a player who cracked the 60-point once in his career. Not exactly a player that a team should shell out a bunch of cash to. On […]

Predators Clicking on All Cylinders

For the first half of the season, it looked like the Nashville Predators were not going to make the Stanley Cup playoffs. They were struggling to put the puck in the net, were not getting timely saves, and appeared to be out of sync. Simply put, they were very un-Predator like. Fast forward to now […]

What Is There Left to Say About Rangers’ Panarin?

If you are a New York Rangers fan, you are probably running out of words to say regarding the play of forward Artemi Panarin. In the Rangers 4-3 shootout win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night, March 23, at Madison Square Garden, Panarin, 32, had two goals and the game-winning goal in the shootout. […]

An Email Interview with Hockey Author Curt Solomon

It’s amazing the kind of hockey people you can be put in touch with via the Internet. I have the perfect example of this. Back in early February, I was searching for something on Patrick Roy and I came across a book called My Road Hockey Obsession by Curt Solomon. After reading a sample of […]