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Thrashers outlook heading into the New Year.
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With the team out to a terrific start this season at 19-7-4-1 (43 pts) the team is pleased with its first 31 games of the season. With all key area's in the team stats department solid, the team is 6th in PK, PP, Goals for per game and goals against per game the team is happy to be in the top 10 in all these c...
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Thrashers management excited to see youngsters in WJC.
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With the WJC upon us.. The Thrashers management is excited to watch the 8 guys they have in the tourny. 4 americans, (D.Bouwman, T.Ruth, A.Palushaj, J.Obrien), Also two swedes, (J.Andersson, S.Hjalrmasson), a Finish forward (N.Lucenius) and a Russian winger (E.Dadonov) Bouwman had a 2 goal ope...
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Not singing the Blues
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The Blues are going 6-1-1 in their last 8 games, currently on a three game winning streak after back-to-back-to-back games against Minnesota, Pittsburgh and Atlanta. In the most recent game against Atlanta, Brian Boucher got his first shot as a St Louis Blue. He got some help from the third and fourt...
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Three Ducks to Compete for Canada in World Junior Championship
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Ottawa, ON (AP) - All three Anaheim Ducks prospects trying out for Canada's under-20 team found out that they made the final cut on Monday morning. Forwards Dana Tyrell, Chris DiDomenico and Jamie Benn were all named to Pat Quinn's 22-man squad that will compete for a fifth consecutive goal medal in...
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Staal-ing for time
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St Louis is sitting 8th in the Western Conference, San Jose are sitting 6th. Both are unhappy with their positioning, after some thought a deal was struck quickly. Going to San Jose are Chris Drury, Daymond Langkow, Jay Pandolfo and newly acquired goalie Ilja Bryzgalov in return for superstar cente...
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New coach for Pittsburgh
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After struggling out of the gate, even though great efforts were made by GM Rod Edwards to make this team at very worse, a contender for the playoffs, the Pittsburgh Penguins have done the unthinkable and removed fan favorite and GM favorite Paul Maurice of his duties. On the way in is Terry Murray, a ve...
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Thumbs Up First Quarter Report Card for Wild
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When Co-GM Derek Thomson took over the Minnisota Wild the goal was to draft a team that could contend for a playoff spot right away, but still have enough youth to build around for the future. After having a decent entry draft, the Wild traded away their best asset Marian Hossa, stunning a number of GM...
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Penguins Finally Show Form.............
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Penguins finally show form in Nashville thrashing defeating the home team 7 - 2. It's been a long time coming says coach Paul Maurice. We have been holding our heads up and working hard, but have always come up short. Tonight we seemed to find our edge and they looked great doing it. Super performances w...
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Blues Acquire Future Starter
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With two key players on the St Louis Blues roster set for free agency, the Blues made a trade to acquire a goalie that would take over starting duties from Nabokov next season. This move indicates that GM Evans will not tag Nabokov, but rather defenseman Dan Boyle. With the move, St Louis finally gets a m...
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Changes continue in Ottawa
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Ottawa- Ilja Bryzgalov has known his time in Ottawa was coming to an end it was just a matter of time, and it looks like that time has come as a massive 7 player trade has been agreed to between Ottawa and St. Louis. While in a second trade that has just been completed Zybnek is on the move as he heads to Dal...
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Blues get key win
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Going down 2-0 to the Chicago Blackhawks isn't always preferred by teams as they have enough star power to shut down any comeback a team could muster. That is, if they were playing their star goalie Craig Anderson as their starter instead of Nicklas "Dead Weight" Backstrom. Alexander Fro...
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Kopitar Pots 5, adds 2 assists..
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The Buffalo Sabres came away with a 8-2 victory tonight against the Kings of Los Angeles. However, in a game where they went 5 for 5 on the powerplay, the real story came from Sophomore Anze Kopitar. Kopitar who was the league leader in scoring and assists coming in to Wednesday night's game had a game...
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Lehtonen in, Kolzig out in Phoenix
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The Phoenix Coyotes are announcing a major trade with the Calgary flames. Coming to Phoenix: Kari Lehtonen + PHO6th + ATL6th Going to Calgary: Olaf Kolzig, Ryan McDonagh, John Armstrong While the Coyotes were sad to see McDonagh leave, the addition of Lehtonen soildifies the goaltending position...
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Big News out of Detroit
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Marc-Andre Fleury's GAA has dropped below the 4.00 mark for the first time this season. Coach Therrien, a man of his word, took him to Dairy Queen as promised him if he reached this goal. Since this motivation seemed to work for the young net-minder, Coach Therrien has set more goals for his goalie. I...
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Marleau Shaking up Av's Change Room
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Newcomer Patty Marleau has been singled out by GM Simnor in attempts to calm the Av's change room. After being brought to town in a deal that saw highly touted Bobby Ryan and Steve Downie, as well as a first, Marleau has been nothing but problems. 'His first shot in pre-game he dinged Ellis with a head sho...
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Nolan fired
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The New York Islanders have informed Ted Nolan that he has been fired as the Islanders head coach. With 2 years remaining on his contract he will be bought out. The Islanders are expected to sign free agent coach Todd McLellan to a contract as their new head coach.
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I hate my team
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I have my picks for this year and they're not helping their draft position.
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Bryzgalov on the move no more??
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Ottawa-- After being told he was all but traded and that he should pack his bags it looks like Bryzgalov will remain a Senator for a little while longer. "We had some decent interest in him and thought we had a deal in place, but after going back for final conformation with that GM he had decided aga...
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Pittsburgh Gets Their Man
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After two disappointing losses, The Pittsburgh Penguins stepped up and dealt for a number 1 centerman. Coming from a struggling Ottawa Senators team, Vaclav Prospal is on his way to join the Penguins in Pittsburgh before taking off with the team in a couple of days to Montreal. In return the Senators...
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Ottawa takes first steps toward rebuild
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Ottawa-- It certainly wasn't how Senator fans pictured the season going but after not being able to sign any offensive help in the offseason and struggling to start the season, the Ottawa Senators have taken the first step towards rebuilding there team. "It certainly isn't the direction we sa...
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Blues cut salary
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The Blues parted with winger David Vyborny and a 5th round pick in exchange for Scott Nichol and 500k. The move was a cost-saving manueavre as it shaves 2 million off the Blues payroll, however, there are rumours that Evans has two major offers on the table that could see the shape of the Blues change sha...
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Coyotes Bolster Lineup
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It has been no secret that the Coyotes have been looking to add some offense to their team the last few weeks. However, with that kind of talent extremely hard to find the 'Yotes had nearly given up hope. Furthermore, after beating the Thrashers with a depleted lineup it seemed perhaps everything w...
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Up yours RYan Miller
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TEAM GP MIN AVG W L T SO GA SA PCT PIM AS 3 Ray Emery Bos 4 42 4.29 0 0 1 0 3 25 .880 0 34 Ryan Miller Bos 7 387 4.50 1 4 1 0 29 172 .831 0 1 --------------------------------------------...
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Sabres No Match for Ducks
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Sabres No Match for Ducks in First Win of Season Anaheim, CA (AP) - In front of a home crowd of 18,000 fans, the Anaheim Ducks routed the Buffalo Sabres by a score of 6-3 last night in BRHL2 action. While the game was expected by most to be a lopsided affair, it was the Sabres who were expected to dominate th...
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CFP IN MTL
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After hearing the Red Wings were shopping Pronger, the 3-0-0-1 Habs decided to wager in. The only way Pronger was playing in Montreal was if Roy shipped sails to the West. Montreal gets: Chris Pronger Max Talbot Detroit gets: Derek Roy Michael Zigomanis Alex Goligoski 5 MIN this year 5 MON next year &...
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Oilers: 4-0
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Edmonton, AB -- The Edmonton Oilers are the early suprise team on the short BRHL2 2008-09 season. Comming out of the gate hard the Oilers are 4-0 to start the season and they have been liften by some unexpected players. While the decision to hold onto Marty Biron looks like a genius move by team manager J...
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ATL-TB Preview
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Thrasher-Lightning Preview Going into Sunday nights game the Lightning carry a 2-1 record they are going up against the Thrashers who are currently 2-0-1. In Sunday night's matchup it will be a battle between Atlanta offensive firepower of Heatley, Kovalchuk, Gomez, Savard, Hemsky going up agai...
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Thrasher Bring in Futue IGGY CLONEin K.Okposo
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The Thrasher have brought in someone that they very deeply regretted moving during the offseason after landing him from NJ earlier in the offseason The deal bringing Kyle back to Atlanta was this To Phoenix- David...
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Stunned Detroit Not Looking Forward to Season
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GM MacDonald sat wide eyed staring at the standings. "How the **** did we finish 24th in the preseason?" was all he kept saying, over and over again. "We were one of the top teams in the league last season" "I like our team's scoring, and the development of the forwards. Ka...
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Nashville slapped out of Philly
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Nashville, TN.
After a great start to the season, Nashville was shown why they are definately not in the same league as the Elite.... the score would somewhat seem like a close affair but the Flyers truly showed why they are one of the teams to beat this BRHL season.
Vesa Toskala would once again st...
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Price dominates on other coast with shutout.
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After opening the season in with a 3-0 shutout in Anahiem the Thrashers boarded a late night flight and got back to Atlanta at 3:30 AM, the team played again tonight and Carey Price showed up in a huge way with another shutout giving him back to back shutouts to start his career in Atlanta. In the opening p...
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Kostytsin comes up big on Opening Night
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Andrei Kostytsin didn't have a great game, just a great two minuts. Kostytsin scored two power play goals and an even strength tally in the span of just 1:19 to lead the Panthers to an opening night win. Newly acquired Tomas Vokoun made 27 stops as the Panthers beat the Kings 6-3.
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Preds getting a little devilsh in the season opener
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Nashville got off to a great start to the BRHL2 season with a victory in front of a sellout crowd of 18,000 by the final score of 6-5. The first period saw the Preds top line take off in flight as they were playing tricks all over the devils. Michael Nylander would open up the scoring this season for Nashvil...
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Carey Price steals the show as Thrasher open season with 3-0 win..
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In the first game that counts after being beaten in the Stanley Cup Finals the Atlanta Thrasers got heavily outplayed by a much weaker Anahiem Ducks squad, getting outshot 32-21 in the game. In the First it was a period dominated by the Ducks but Carey Price held the Thrashers in the game getting outsho...
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Renney mixes up top 6- Zets, Kops, and Brownie find chemistry quickly
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After playing the entire preseason together, Tom Renney has decided to split up Henrik Zetterberg, Sidney Crosby, and Jarome Iginla. Zetterberg will be leaving the top line LW spot for either Jere Lehtinen or Chris Higgins.
Anze Kopitar and Dustin Brown, who thrived with Zetteberg last year wil...
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Music City want to make some noise
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Well we are less than 24 hours from kick off to the BRHL season 3, and GM Barbosa has to be satified with the turn of event this summer with his Nashville Preds. After just squeaking out of the playoff picture in year one yet making it to the AHL final, season 2 was more of a disaster and low point to this grea...
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Bruins Preseason Preview
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As the Bruins head into camp, there are 5 main storylines to watch. 1. Who is being traded. RUmours have flown around Boston of late that the team is actively persuing a trade to cut some cap room. With barely over 200k between the current roster and the cap, the team is looking to increase that buffer zon...
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Today or Tommorow?: Edmonton Oilers 2008/09 Season Preview
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Edmonton, AB -- Alberta native James Love has made a lot of changes to the Edmonton Oilers franchise in the past six weeks shipping out local favorites Ilya Kovalchuk and Marc Savard with a "Out with the Old, In with the New" mentallity. The team is now built on newcomers Olli Jokinen, Marti...
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Thrashers Preseason Lineup Announced
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LW-C-RW-D-D
1) Kovalchuk-Savard-Cole-Chara-Zubov
2) Hemsky-Connolly-Heatley-Ranger-Zanon
3) Belanger-Pahlsson-Mueller-Staios-Schubert
4) Torres-Reasoner-Perron-Zubov-Chara
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Kovalchuk-Savard-Heatley-Hemsky-Zubov
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The Thrashers team molding into form after the Selanne trade..
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With the team sitting with 3 top end UFA's in Zubov 81, Savard 78, Selanne 79.. the teaam decided it needed to move selanne out for a C-man who could play in the teams top two lines. The team moved To Phoenix- Brock Trotter- Temu Selanne- Brad Lukowich - Atl 5th-1Mill coming back to atlanta is Tim Connoll...
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