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Archive for October, 2010
VanCanucks: Want to watch the #Canucks vs. Devils from Rogers Arena tomorrow? We have a great contest launching in the morning. Stay tuned.
Sunday, October 31st, 2010VanCanucks: We’re enjoying the 40th Anniversary pumpkin! Nice work. RT @redbeancc44: my 4 pumpkins for this year’s #Halloween http://twitpic.com/32rx1u
Sunday, October 31st, 2010VanCanucks: We’re enjoying the 40th Anniversary pumpkin! Nice work. RT @redbeancc44: my 4 pumpkins for this year’s #Halloween http://twitpic.com/32rx1u
Briere Cross-Check Suspension Worthy?
Sunday, October 31st, 2010I’ll catch up on this weekend’s three cheers later and also chime in with thoughts on Tampa Bay’s win in Phoenix (with no games on the slate, I’ve got plenty of time) but, for now, have a look at Danny Briere’s stickwork on Frans Nielsen in the final minute of Philadelphia’s 6-1 trouncing of the Islanders.
October Numbers
Sunday, October 31st, 2010from John Kreiser of NHL.com,
The NHL’s busiest day is followed by its quietest. With the League turning over the final day of October to the trick-or-treaters after a 14-game bonanza Saturday, it’s a good time to take a look back at the numerical goings-on during the first month of the season:
0—Combined home victories by the New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres, both of whom went 0-4-1 in their own buildings—the only teams that didn’t win at least once at home during October. One of the four home losses for each team came against the other.
1—Goals scored by teams while skating 3-on-5. Frans Nielsen of the New York Islanders scored on a penalty shot in Philadelphia on Saturday after being hauled down with his team playing two men short. It was one of four penalty-shot goals scored on the same night—Florida’s David Booth, the Rangers’ Ryan Callahan and Washington’s David Steckel also scored on penalty shots.
Who Said It?
Sunday, October 31st, 2010You’ll have to think early 1980’s to figure out who said this…
“I scored 56 goals one year and made $86,000, players score 50 now and they’re making $8 million.”
Find out who said it along with other hockey notes from Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal.
Morning Line
Sunday, October 31st, 2010“No matter what, I know I want to stay in the game in some way, shape, or form. This is what I do, right? I mean, it’s what I’ve done all my life. I think I was born for it. I’ve been educated in it. So I don’t think I’m going to stop and do something different.’’
-Bill Guerin, an unrestricted free agent.. Read more on Guerin from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe. Other hockey topics are mentioned too.
Video- Yandle Claims Dirty Hit By Pavel Kubina
Sunday, October 31st, 2010from Damian Cristodero of Lightning Strikes,
Kubina received a two-minute penalty with 7:06 left in the third period for the knee-to-knee hit, and then had to fight Coyotes captain Shane Doan, who retaliated. After the game, Yandle told reporters he had no doubt in his mind Kubina stuck his knee out to initiate the hit.
“It was such a dirty hit,” Yandle said. “He sticks his knee out deliberately. I had him wide and he stuck his knee out deliberately. There’s no room in the game for that.”
But Kubina, who said he had not yet watched a replay of the hit, said there was no intent.
“No, not at all,” he said. “I didn’t try to knee the guy. I was going to back up first and then I tried to hit him and he skated right into me. That’s all I can say.”
read on and watch a video of the hit and fight below or scroll to near the end of the video for a replay of the hit…
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Video- Hit Of The Night Goes To Douglas Murray
Sunday, October 31st, 2010Kyle Chipchura gets rocked by Murray.
Flames Sinking
Sunday, October 31st, 2010from George Johnson of Flames Insider,
Brent Sutter wasn’t only blaming the penalty killing or some of the idiotic decision that led to those incarcerations.
“We (coaches) have to get better ourselves,’’ murmurred the embattled Calgary Flames coach, shellshocked by a comprehensive 7-2 obliteration by the Washington Captials on Saturday night. “I hold myself responsible and accountable for what’s going on.
“We’ve got to try to get these guys back on the tracks. We’ve got to get it done, find a way.’’
For the third game in a row, the Flames piddled away a lead, this one 2-0, and in the process gave up six goals in a period for the first time since 1984.
They didn’t simply lose. They capitulated.
Nothing is too drastic, nobody should be safe, now.
continued and watch Brent Sutter’s post game conference below…
Parise Out With Lower-Body Injury
Sunday, October 31st, 2010via Tom Gulitti of Fire & Ice,
Devils left wing Zach Parise is headed back to New Jersey to be examined by team doctors for what the team is calling “a lower-body injury,” which he sustained in the second period of tonight’s 3-1 loss to the Kings in Los Angeles.
Parise will definitely not play Monday in Vancouver. Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello accompanied Parise back to New Jersey on a late flight.
Parise appeared to injure his right leg in a collision with the Kings’ Kyle Clifford with 3:35 left in the second period. His right leg turned out as he fell awkwardly to the ice inside the Kings’ blue line. He barely touched his right skate to the ice as he returned to the Devils’ bench and climbed over the boards. He did play one shift after that, but did not play at all in the third.