Archive for: February, 2009

Saturday Night Scores

Saturday Night Scores

  Caught part of the Detroit/Nashville game and behind the power of Jason Arnott’s 8th career hatrick, the Preds took it to the Wings powering them to an 8-0 victory.  Amazingly Nick Lidstrom managed to stay even despite the...

 

Saturday Night Links

Since acquiring Mathieu Schneider the Habs have been 10 of 24 on power play chances.  Pretty insane rate; one they won’t keep up, but Schneider’s presence is certainly a huge boost to that team’s back end. Here is video of...

 

Today’s Lines

This will be the final day of the Illegal Curve Handicapping Contest as we will not be holding the contest for March and April.  Thank you to all participants. Click here for contest standings and rules Here are today’s lines, courtesy...

 

NHL Morning Papers (Saturday Edition): Nick Boynton sent home for disciplinary reasons, Predators are trying to be buyers and Shane O’Brien analyzes the Lightning’s decisions

Here are the morning papers for Saturday the 28th of February: The Ducks are still unhappy about Paul Gaustad’s hit on Ryan Getzlaf, and more importantly, the fact he wasn’t disciplined. John Anderson gives his thoughts on his first...

 

Friday Night Scores

Friday Night Scores

    FINAL OT 1 2 3 OT T SOG GOALIES   Montreal  3  0  0 1  4  36  J. Halak    Philadelphia  2  1  0  0  3  38  A. Niittymaki  Scoring Summary: MTL:  Plekanec, T. (Mathieu Schneider, Alexei Kovalev), Kostopoulos,...

 

Friday Night Links and Illegal Curve Notes

A couple notes before passing on a few interesting links.  First, we have spoken to the crew at 92.9 Kick FM in Winnipeg about having a two-hour radio show on trade deadline day and they have been amenable to that idea.  So, on Wednesday March...

 

Afternoon Delight: Friday!

Allan Muir of SI offers up some trade ideas that make sense to him. A Scout’s Life profiles the WHL Draft for 1994′s. The US National Development Team has left the NAHL and will skate next season in the USHL. Greatest Hockey Legends...

 

OTB: Habs claim Metropolit, Rocky Mountain News says goodbye and Ossi Vaananen claimed by Canucks

What team beat writers are saying this afternoon: Ryan Whitney is pumped to be playing with Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger.  Let’s see how long that lasts! The Habs have claimed Glen Metropolit off waivers.  I like this move for...