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Cam Ward Cut By Skate Of Rick Nash Tonight

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

11/07/09 at 10:05 PM ET | Comments (0)

Ward left the ice bleeding from the upper leg area and taken to the hospital.

update 10:15pm, Ward will spend the night in a Columbus hospital.

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Jason Williams Has A Broken Right Leg

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11/07/09 at 09:35 PM ET | Comments (0)

In an innocent play along the end boards, Jason Williams right leg was caught underneath him and he was helped off the ice during the first period of the Wings/Leafs game tonight.

Wings TV crew just announced he has a broken right leg.

added 10:02pm, Video of Williams breaking his leg.

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Atlantic Division Report

Blog: Goal Line Report By Patrick Hoffman

11/07/09 at 08:38 PM ET | Comments (0)

Last season, the Atlantic Division was one of the best divisions in all of hockey. Four out of the five teams finished with over 90 points – the Penguins, the New Jersey Devils, the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers.

Early into the 2009-2010 season, it appears that history is looking to repeat itself as all four of those teams have winning records just over a month into the season. Even the New York Islanders are trying to get into the act as they are 5-3-2 in their last 10 games.

Let’s take a look at how the division is shaping up as we head towards the middle of November.

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Rangers Looking to Put out The Flames

Blog: Goal Line Report By Patrick Hoffman

11/07/09 at 07:37 PM ET | Comments (0)

So far, it has been a mediocre trip through Western Canada for the New York Rangers. They were beaten by the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Tuesday night and beat a struggling Edmonton Oilers team 4-2 on Thursday night.

Tonight, the Blueshirts look to beat the Calgary Flames at the Pengrowth Saddledone, an area in which the team has struggled over the last decade or so. If the Rangers can win tonight, they’ll increase their point total to 23 and be one point behind the Eastern Conference-leading Pittsburgh Penguins.

Every point is important in the “new” NHL. With shootouts being added to the game, any team (the slightly below average, average, and above average) has the ability to give themselves a chance to make the postseason. That certainly proved to be true for the Rangers last season as their month of October in 2008 really gave them a solid cushion.

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The Battle In The NHLPA Continues

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

11/07/09 at 06:02 PM ET | Comments (1)

from Elliotte Friedman of CBC,

On the surface, the fight inside the NHLPA is all about Paul Kelly’s firing. But, it goes deeper than that. Right now, the union finds itself at a crossroads, in the middle of its most important decisions since the overthrow of Alan Eagleson. It’s not only about who will lead - it’s also about where to go with the next CBA, how to motivate a disinterested majority and how to rebuild an organization rife with distrust.

“I don’t know how it got this bad,” one player, active within the union, said this week. “We have a lot of work to do.”

read on (suggested reading)…

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73 Men Sailed Up For This Live Blog and It Was 19 Who Led Them

Blog: Abel to Yzerman By IwoCPO

11/07/09 at 05:53 PM ET | Comments (364)

One of my favorite tunes of all time and a tribute to the best frigging Captain in the history of professional sports.  What became inevitable on June 7th, 1997 won’t actually occur for 48 more hours.  But you just know tonite’s all about 19.

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Afternoon Line

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

11/07/09 at 04:49 PM ET | Comments (1)

“For 15 years I’ve said that it should be mandatory and should never be the players’ decision, because you give us a choice and the chances are we make the wrong one. In saying that, I haven’t worn a visor my whole career and I’ve had no problem with it, either. So I think when it comes down to it we’re all men, we should have the choice, but for myself, if they tell me to wear a visor because I have to, then I have no problem with it.”

-Brad May of the Detroit Wings stating visors should be mandatory for NHL players.  More on this topic from May by Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press.

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Lundqvist Out With Minor Injury

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

11/07/09 at 04:13 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Steve Zipay of Blue Notes,

Less than 24 hours after coach John Tortorella declared that Henrik Lundqvist would start the final game of this three-game trip, he reversed gears and said backup Steve Valiquette would be in the nets for his second consecutive game. “Vally is going. It’s just rest for Hank,” was all Tortorella would say, but the Rangers No. 1 goalie is fighting a nagging injury.

Lundqvist (8-5-1, 2.52 GAA) mentioned the other day that the ice pack on his “stiff” right upper thigh/groin was for something minor, and indeed, both goalies participated in the skate at the Saddledome and Valiquette left the ice first while Lundqvist chatted at center ice with Sean Avery and other players. In the dessing room, Lundqvist removed his equipment and disappeared for treatment for more than an hour. When he emerged he said that was pretty confident that he would play against Atlanta on Thursday, a nine-day layoff.

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“Celebrate The Stevie”

Blog: Abel to Yzerman By IwoCPO

11/07/09 at 01:28 PM ET | Comments (22)

Pavel said we have to and so we will.

And check out who congratulates The Captain first in goal #2.  Irony.

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A Skinny ‘Monster’

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

11/07/09 at 01:17 PM ET | Comments (1)

from Joe O’Conner of the National Post,

For about six years now, Jonas Gustavsson has been skinny. Not slender, just skinny. His legs are skinny. His waist and chest are skinny. And even his face is skinny. Dress him in a skinny black tie and a skinny black suit and Gustavsson would not look out of place in a jazz club full of New York hipsters, circa 1955.

“It doesn’t matter how much I eat or how much I practise—I get stronger, but I just can’t get any bigger,” says the Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender who begins each day with bacon and eggs, toast and an assortment of fruit, and ends it with a bedtime snack. “Everything I eat, I burn away. But I think this is the right way for me.”

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