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UK Elite League Round up:
1. Sheffield Steelers 65
2. Coventry Blaze 55
3. Belfst Giants 55
4. Nottingham Panthers 54
5. Manchester Phoenix 43
6. Cardiff Devils 39
7. Newcastle Vipers 34
8. Edinburgh Capitals 25
9. Hull Stingrays 25
10. Basingstoke Bison 19
Leafs gave Minnesota a scare last night. They actually scored the first goal.
Usual result though.
FINALLY... Red Wings recall Ville Leino from AHL. Hopefully his chance turns out as effective as pre-season games in which he had 6 points in 8 games. But, I predict a pretty small role in star filled team :mark:
AFF...he will get his chances. The Wings are nursing a lot of injuries. Lindstrom is hurt, Zetterburg's back is bothering him, Datsyuk is hurting. They are a stacked team but they have a lot of bumps and bruises. The upside is Detroit just is cruising through the regular season, and they will come alive come playoff time.
Maybe your man Ville will stick around and be a part of that playoff run...
IN other news, the Leafs reminded everyone why Andrew Raycroft sucks lighting up the Av's last night for 7 goals.
The Orange State wasn't kind to the Habs :s
On the pluse side, Koivu is back in form :)
Schmenke...I like you so I wasn't going to point out the Habs lost 4 in a row!
Yeah, I know... some things are just not worth mentioning... :uhoh:
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Originally Posted by schmenke
Of course not. Being a Leaf's fan with a brain means just sitting quietly in the corner.....moaning and speaking in tongues....We have no business gloating when the Hab's lose.
Bruins started Tuukka Rask in goal today, first NHL shutout for him. It's looking like if the Bruins make the playoffs (which they should, even with all the injuries they were a good team, but who knows what will happen) they'll trade Manny Fernandez for a really experienced playoff guy and keep Timmy and Tuukka. Habs tomorrow, I'll be in Providence for the Providence Bruins game, but it's worth taping and watching instead of the Super Bowl. The Bruins should've scored more than 1 goal today (but they didn't, so who cares what they should've done), their offense looked really good even without the results. Should be a fun game.
El Lib, I am picking the Bruins to at least make the final 4 of the league if not the actual Stanley Cup finals. They just sort of woke up and realized they had the parts and pieces to be a really good team and I give 100% of the credit for the big turn around to Claude Julien. He has those guys convinced they can do it and he has given them the system to be successful. Add in some hot rookies like Lucic and Blake Wheeler and they have it going. I saw Savard a lot in Junior as he was the cornerstone of some really good Oshawa General teams and I always knew he could be that good if he just found the right coach, and a team to work with. I always have been a Bruins fan of sorts since the Generals back in the Original Six days of the late 50's and into the 60's were the farm junior team (back when they had 14 year olds signed to C forms) of the Bruins. With Orr, Sinden, Cashman, Middleton, O'Reilly, Awrey and Doak all being ex Oshawa Generals (Sinden and O'Reilly were Oshawa natives), it was hard to find many in this burg of my generation and older who didn't cheer for the Bruins for a lot of years.