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Canes win big game in OT

Blog: Red and Black Hockey By David Lee

03/18/10 at 10:40 PM ET | Comments (0)

On Thursday night, the Hurricanes hosted the Washington Capitals in a game that had very very little playoff implications.  Someone forgot to tell the home team, and they emerged with a 4-3 overtime win. 
Former Cane Joe (s)Corvo scored twice for the Caps in the middle stanza while Eric Staal got one for the Canes.
Brett Carson and Chad LaRose scored for the Canes in the third and Eric Fehr forced overtime. 
Ray Whitney scored with a shot “from the ladies’ tees” in the final minute of overtime to give Justin Peters another huge win in his young NHL goaltending career. 

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Evening Line

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 08:18 PM ET | Comments (4)

Unfortunately, the league said nothing about disciplining referees Paul Devorski and Ian Walsh for their gross mistake of giving Wisniewski only a two-minute minor penalty for charging Seabrook.

Maybe this will keep Devorski and Walsh from working the playoffs. We can only hope.

Devorski and Walsh also failed to penalize Corey Perry late in Wednesday’s game for that shove to Brent Sopel’s back that helped lead to the Ducks’ winning goal.

-Tim Sasson of Between the Circles at the Chicago Daily-HYerald.

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Ducks GM Murray On Wisniewski Suspension

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 08:13 PM ET | Comments (4)

from Eric Stephens of Ducks Blog,

In supporting the eight-game suspension of defenseman James Wisniewski late Thursday afternoon, Ducks GM Bob Murray said his player “crossed the line” with his hit on Chicago’s Brent Seabrook in Wednesday’s night game at Honda Center.

But Murray also took issue with Wisniewski’s punishment of eight games as handed down by NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell following a morning hearing with the parties involved.

“First of all, we love the way Wiz plays and we want him to play the game hard,” Murray said.  ”That’s how he has to play and he’s very effective doing that. In this instance, he crossed the line. He went too far and he knows he was going to get suspended. I applaud the league cracking down on these things.”

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This via Pierre LeBrun’s Twitter,

Ducks GM Bob Murray just now on Quenneville: ``I strongly suggest Joel worries about his goaltending and stops trying to run the NHL.”

added 8:16pm, this from Chis Kuc’s Twitter,

More from Ducks GM Bob Murray: “I played in Chicago a long time. ... It used to be a black-and-blue town. It didn’t have whiners.”

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Shawn Thornton & Matt Cooke Go At It

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 07:21 PM ET | Comments (22)

First shift for both players, they drop their gloves and go at it.

Hopefully the end of the story.

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Avery Trying to Ignite Blueshirts

Blog: Goal Line Report By Patrick Hoffman

03/18/10 at 05:23 PM ET | Comments (1)

From good friend of the blog Andrew Gross at The Record:

Now, the Rangers desperately need his teammates to match Avery’s intensity as they host the Blues tonight after Tuesday’s sloppy 3-1 loss to the Canadiens left them three points behind the Bruins for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Boston has a game in hand.

“We need guys to play with that kind of energy and urgency,” goalie Henrik Lundqvist said. “The last two games he’s been really good.”

In fact, other than Lundqvist, Avery was the most effective Ranger on the ice both on Tuesday and in Sunday’s 3-1 win over the seventh-place Flyers. Avery has three goals in those two games – after being a healthy scratch in Friday’s 5-2 win at Atlanta because coach John Tortorella said he was not “engaged” enough – and led the Rangers with four shots Tuesday and tied for the team lead with three hits.

“I guess it’s the time of the year when you’ve really got to buckle down and get the job done as an individual,” said Avery, who chose not to talk to the media after each of the last two games. “I’ll feel good about playing in the playoffs. I don’t think anybody is thinking about their own game versus the team’s game and getting in the playoffs.”

Click here for more on the Rangers’ pest.

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James Wisniewski Suspended For Eight Games

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 05:10 PM ET | Comments (27)

via Pierre LeBrun tweet,

Confirmed 8 games for Wisniewski. Which means he waived his right to an in-person hearing which a player has a right to for five-games plus

added 6:41pm, Quote from Colin Campbell,

“Mr. Wisniewski delivered a retaliatory hit to the head of an opponent who never had possession of the puck,” said Colin Campbell, NHL Senior Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations. “The fact that Mr. Wisniewski is a repeat offender also entered into this decison.”

added 7:05pm, Bettman addressed the head hits, etc. in his weekly NHL Hour.  Read about it at NHL.com.

added 7:07pm, via the Ducks PR department,

Statement from James Wisniewski on his suspension

“I am truly sorry that my friend Brent Seabrook was hurt on the play. I certainly wish him the best. I am, however, very disappointed in the length of the suspension. Eight games is incredibly hard to swallow, especially in comparison to other recent hits that have resulted in lesser punishment.”

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Hey, Hey, Hey Sid

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 04:17 PM ET | Comments (7)

from Mike Devlin of the Victoria Times Colonist,

(Bill) Cosby, who played football and ran track for his alma mater, Philadelphia’s Temple University, also had good things to say about the men’s gold-medal contest — and one person in particular.

“It was a good match. (When the U.S. side tied it up), I know Canadians must have been saying, ‘Oh, God, here we go.’ And it didn’t happen, thanks to a kid named Sidney Crosby.”

Cosby was in California on business when Sid the Kid scored the winner in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. Later that night, while watching news reports about the game, Cosby said he was saddened by the slant of the coverage.

“I’m watching a guy do the sports, and he said, ‘How can we lose to a country that has fewer people than the state of California?’ He was mad and he couldn’t take it. They don’t know how to behave. That’s your sport.”

read on for Cosby’s view on the post game celebration by the Canadian women…

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An Ode To A Mule And An Ass

Blog: Abel to Yzerman By VooX

03/18/10 at 03:10 PM ET | Comments (63)

I have finally recovered from the past two days of celebration.  St. Patrick’s last night, and more importantly, celebrating all day Tuesday following the Wings’ biggest win of the season.  My pants just got tight thinking about it.  I am hung like a kitten, and wear tight pants, but I swear I can almost see a bulge.  All due to the Wings and specifically Holmstrom’s glorious ass.

Before I wax poetic about the posterior of an Angry Chipmunk, allow me to once again declare man-love for Franzen.

Since his return to the lineup, the Wings have been unstoppable.  We have two lines which are scoring threats and our PP is on fire.  Ten games in a row with at least one PP goal.  The sort of production we haven’t seen in a long, long time.

There I go again, trying my best to make a bulge in my pants.

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Tortorella In Charge

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 02:32 PM ET | Comments (5)

from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

So now John Tortorella has made it clear he wants the title of Ranger team captain as well as the ones of head coach and travel director he already owns.

He has made it clear that he not only wants to control what the players do on and off the ice, but also wants to correct what they think.

He tells the players to claim ownership of the locker room, but then simply repossesses it when he dislikes something one of the athletes says.

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Help Tkachuk Out - Should He Retire?

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

03/18/10 at 02:17 PM ET | Comments (2)

from Jeremy Rutherford of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

As the regular season winds down, Blues center Keith Tkachuk realizes that it could be his last in the NHL. After 18 seasons, he is considering retirement following this season.

Tkachuk wouldn’t say this morning whether he has made his decision final yet, but the indications are that he’s strongly considering retirement. Either way, Tkachuk said he’ll make the decision “fairly quickly” after the season.

“I’ve got some thoughts running through my mind,” said Tkachuk, who will turn 38 on March 28. “You get older and you’re just not the same way you used to be. It gets a lot harder . . . guys are bigger, faster, stronger. But I know I can compete every night and go out and try to help out in different ways. I’ve played first line, I’ve played second line, I’ve played fourth line, I’ve played center, I’ve played wing. It’s a little different this year, but I still go into every game to prove that I can play and push other guys to perform. Like anybody else, you want to play as well as you can.

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