Illegal Curve Hockey
Morning Papers: Eastern Conference
The Rangers put on a lackluster performance last night , getting shut out by Marc-Andre Fleury and the Penguins last night 3-0. Larry Brooks of the NY Post feels that the Rangers had a great five game roadtrip going 3-1-1 but unfortunately had to end it with a lousy game. The Penguins accquired Matthieu Garon to help push M.A. Fleury to a new level, he vowed to never let in a goal again and didn’t last night shutting out the Rangers 3- 0 . Evegni Malkin had an accidental hit last night on Rangers’ foreward Nikolai Zherdev . After taking a hit from Alexander Ovechkin, Dennis Wideman sat out practice for the Bruins . The Bruins have faced a number of injuries right now including the following players who wont play today: Andrew Ference, Aaron Ward, Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Marco Sturm and Phil Kessel. Admist a five game losing streak, Carolina Hurricanes GM Jim Rutherford is not looking to make any trades . Tonight, Paul Maurice returns to coach in Toronto for the first time , this time for the opposing Canes. Speaking of losing streaks, the Islanders are currently in the middle of a ten game losing streak. Lucky for them, they get to face the first place Capitals tonight. The Senators are taking whatever points they can get right now . Allen Panzeri notes that the Sens currently are 11 points back of the “Tavares Cup”With Danny Briere returning to the Flyers’, Luca Sbisa is the latest salary cap casualty . Brad Richards’ makes his first return tonight to Tampa . As awful as the Lightning are right now, do they at least get some grace period?
