Nightly Recap: Rask Shines in Debut

Boston 4 – Toronto 2: In goalie Tukka Rask’s first start for the Bruins, he made 30 saves defeating the team that drafted him (He was traded for Andrew Raycroft last year). Chuck Kobasew had two goals and one assist for Boston, and Thomas Kaberle had two assists for Toronto. Mats Sundin’s 11th goal of the year moved him past Senator Frank Mahovlich to 27th on the all time goal scoring list. Next stop, Teemu Selanne with 540.

Edmonton 5 – Vancouver 4 (SO): Coming into the game Edmonton had a league worst powerplay having scored only 7 PP goals for a 8.5% success rate. In tonights game Edmonton converted 3 of 8 powerplays. Tom Gilbert, Ales Hemsky and Shawn Horcoff each had two points for the Oil. Markus Naslund had a goal and an assist for Vancouver, he now has five points in his past three games. Horcoff scored the winner in the fifth round of the shootout.

Here are some spectacular saves made tonight by Roberto Luongo


Calgary 4 – Colorado 1: Despite registering only 15 shots on Jose Theodore, the Flames were able to score four goals. Jarome Iginla scored his 12th of the year, Craig Conroy and Owen Nolan each had two point nights. Marek Svatos scored Colorado’s lone goal, it was his 8th of the year.

Tomorrow’s Games (all times Eastern)
7:00pm FLA@CLB, PHI@CAR, ATL@WSH, MTL@NYI,
7:30pm OTT@BUF (TSN), NYR@TB, NJ@PIT, STL@DET,
8:00pm VAN@MIN,
8:30pm ANA@DAL,
9:30pm LA@PHX