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NYR Lines and Depth Chart
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C LW RW 1st SCOTT GOMEZ JOE PAVELSKI JOZEF STUMPEL 2nd BRENDAN MORRISON VACLAV PROSPAL TODD WHITE 3rd STEPHANE YELLE BOYD DEVEREAUX MIKAEL SAMUELSSON 4th DAN FRIT...
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Bruins acquire Nilson
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The Boston Bruins today sent young goaltender Josh Tordjman to teh Washington Capitals in exchange for checking winger Marcus Nilson and the Capitals 5th rounder. Nilson will play some PK time and is expected to contribute defensively. Word around the office is this may be a preclude to another dea...
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Thrashers Beat Coyotes run winning streak to 6 game and unbeaten streak to 17
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After the Thrasher beat the Yotes 5-3 tonight the game had a very very sad feeling as defenseman Jan Hejda had a very very serious injury in the game on what was one of the dirtiest plays the BRHL2 has seen. With a bunch of players battling for the puck along the benches the coyotes defensmen had quickly o...
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Rangers cant seem to get over the hump
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New York Rangers Gm Joe DesMarais is baffled that his team cant make a push past the 8th seed in the east. We feel our club is strong enough to make a run at, at least 5-7th in the east. With the recent addition of Jozef Stumpel on rightwing, the club hopes to make that push. Rumor has it that the club may be...
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Thrasher pound Hurricanes to push unbeaten streak to 16 games..
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The Thrashers met tonight against the Carolina Hurricanes who were the last team to beat Atlanta back on Day 33.. The Thrashers had those thoughts on their mind as they dominated the Canes 6-1 and ran the teams winning streak to 5 games and the teams unbeaten streak to 16 games.. Rod Brindamour collect...
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Islanders to start in January
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Months after the BRHL2 season has even started, the New York Islanders are set to go at it strong in January. The Isles are set to release their "ILT" short for Internal List of Targets. The Isles are going to be pusuing a number of players to be brought in to help turn the franchise around for...
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Thrashers win 3rd in a row push unbeaten streak to 14 games.
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In their last match up the Thrashers dominated the Detriot Redwings beating them 6-3 and chasing goalie in the late stages of the 2nd period. Fleury became the 4 consecutive goalie to be chased from the net by the league leading Thrasher offense which was lead on the night against detriot by Ales Hemsk...
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Thrashers disappointed after two ties.
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The thrashers team was very disappointed with back to back ties, one with carolina 2-2, and one with philly 5-5. The coach said their will be new lines for tommorow's games. rumours have been swirling that defenseman tom poti could be on the move.
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Thrasher battling injury bug but still winning games.
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Tonight in a battle against the detriot red wings the thrashers will probably have their toughest test of the entire season. The wings are one of the hottest teams in the brhl2 with a 8-2 record in their last ten and they sit 6th overall in the standings. Recently in Atlanta the team has battled the injur...
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Blues Make Blockbuster
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The St Louis Blues have been struggling of late, winning just 2 games in their last 9. A shake up was needed, but instead of juggling the lines, the Blues GM Gareth Evans went out and made a trade. The Vancouver Canucks have been suffering from cap problems of late, losing Jagr to going over the cap and Has...
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Gretzky returning to Edmonton?
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After starting the season 8-12-1-3, Brent Densmore, GM of the Edmonton Oilers, has fired coach Lou Lamoriello. Brent had the following to say about his decision: "We feel we have a good team here and we just haven't had the start we were expecting. This was a tough decision for me to make, especia...
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Canes Bring in another Top D man
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In a recent move the Carolina Hurricanes have brought in Jay Mckee from divison rival Florida. The Canes also added Travis Green so they could lower their cap number. The Canes decided to give up on young talent Andrew Ladd in this deal, when asked why Canes GM responded, "Watching him this sea...
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Hawks add top defenseman
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(AP) Chicago In the wake of Jaromir Jagr leaving the Vancouver Canucks for parts unknown, GM Bachul made a call of support to Vancouver GM Michael Sambataro. Out of the discussion, came the decision that the Canucks were moving into rebuild mode. "Yep, pretty simple. Michael said, 'Interes...
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Thrasher make couple moves. Big changes to lineup
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The team made a bunch of deals since their last win. The teams G.M said, "even with our strong record we always see room to improve our team and we dont care about team chemistry" The trades were TO PITTS- Lauri Tukonen- SJ 2nd- Nick Dodge TO ATL- Todd White. To NYR- Todd White, 2.5 million To A...
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Chris Simon is NYI hero against the Stars
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Islanders take lead, get shaky netminding, then hold on to tie Dallas 5-5 The Long Island faithful got to see their team outshoot the Stars 35-25, their alternate captain Simon score two goals and set up another to take a 4-2 lead into the third period in what could have been an easy win. However, weak go...
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NYR / PHI Deal
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TO NYR: SCOTT GOMEZ 3.5 Million cash TO PHI: MIKKO KOIVU The Rangers finally bring in a top line centerman with exceptional passing to compliment the scoring wingers. Look for the Rangers powerplay to get a huge boost by Gomez arrival as well as a lift in scoring on the top line. Th...
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Thrashers Hottest Team In BRHL2
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HOTLANTA wrote: The thrashers team has a big battle tonight against division champion from last year the tampa bay lightning. Last night the lightning played a game in phoenix where their must have been a full moon as it was a 8-8 tie all four goalies in the game letting in at least 3 goals. Marty Turco lo...
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St Louis has Chicago singing the Blues
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The Blues and the Hawks are two clubs heading in two different directions despite being in the top ten teams. Chicago had lost 4 in a row while the Blues had won 7 out of their last 10. The Chicago Blackhawks boast one of the best offences on paper in the league, with names like Marleau, Thornton, Lecavali...
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Thrasher ready after week off..
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The thrashers team has a big battle tonight against division champion from last year the tampa bay lightning. Last night the lightning played a game in phoenix where their must have been a full moon as it was a 8-8 tie all four goalies in the game letting in at least 3 goals. Marty Turco looked like he had s...
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Florida NHL Storylines
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Since the Panthers will stink in the BRHL2 this year, most of the attention will be on the NHL. The Bouncebacks Cory Stillman --- Seems to be a pretty good safe bet this season. As long as he stays healthy he will be playing with Staal and Cole. 60+ points is likely. Joffrey Lupul --- Will the real Lupul ple...
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Team Makes First Move Of The Season
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After a bad start to the year on the third and fourth lines in Atlanta young centermen Dan Fritsche and Jussi Jokinen along with a Bos 2nd and cash have been moved to New York. In moving these guys the Thrashers were able to bring in a physical third line center in Paul Gaustad who will be teamed up with Pan...
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Atlanta vs Calgary Pregame Report..
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With a big game tonight as the 2nd overall flames come into atlanta with the fewest goal against in the entire brhl2 with only 1.9 Ga/G. Flames are scoring at a fairly slow average though with the 4th worst goals per game in the BRHL2 at 2.6 goals per game. The team is middle pack in team defense allowin...
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PENNSYLVANIA POST
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As of 1 pm today the Pittsburgh Penguins have decided that the best course of action is to start rebuilding the franchise for a couple of seasons in order to stregthen the franchise for many seasons to come. " We would like to thank our fans for standing by us through these times, and guarantee a cu...
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NY Isles off to decent start: just beat NYR a second time, tied NJ
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Islanders win again against divisional rival Rangers; 2 wins, 2 ties in 9 games satisfies NYI captain Robert Lang is on a three-game scoring streak for the second time this season as he leads the Isles 6-3 over the Rangers last night. The centre and his right winger Mike York have 9 points each in the fir...
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Things Quiet in Chi-Town
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(AP) Chicago Joe and Peter, Mike and Arnie, Stevie and Sergei, the list goes on of teams that have had a great 1-2 punch at centre to win them the Cup. The Chicago Blackhawks could have the best 1-2 punch in history with Vincent Lecavalier and Joe Thornton. They don't look at it like a competition. With t...
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Blues Beat Defending Cup Champs
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After a pathetic season last year, the St Louis Blues have rallied to start of the season with a 3-1-1-0 start. After Pittsburgh put up a surprising battle in their season opener to grab a point of St Louis, Jamie Langenbrunner was the star for the Blues that game, assisting on all three St Louis goals. A...
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Detroit pleased with young season
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It's only 6 games into the season, and every roster player (except for the 2nd and 3rd string goaltenders) has at least one point. 26 Goals from 16 different skaters. Not one player with a negative +/- rating. Thats pheonominal balance, and the reason the team is 3rd overall in the league. I must ap...
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Panthers Winners in Opener
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Henrik Lundqvist made just 10 saves, but the Panthers were still easy winners in their opener. How that is remains a mystery. The team is supposed to be Lundqvist and a bunch of scrubs, but for game one it was Rotislave Olesz and Peter Bondra with 4 points each, and a stellar game by the defense that held E...
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Thrasher News. (Lines after brawl)
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Today the press gathered early around the Thrasher practice facility hoping to get a chance to speak with either Marian Gaborik or Dany Heatley after the fight between the two at practice the previous day. The news crews started showing up 3-4 hours before practice only to find out Dany and Marian had...
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Thrasher News, "Slow start from team brews up fight in practice"
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After a terrible start to the season in Atlanta.
The team was having a brutal skating and positional practice with no pucks. After 2 hours of hard drills from coach Barry Trotz the team was working on Powerplay positional play with the teams horrible start on the powerplay being a direct indicator of...
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philly happy with developments in 07-08 NHL season
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3 assets i particularily like are: zherdev 3 assists in 2 games. sabourin (could see more ice time than anticipated in NHL for PITTSBURGH this year) kuba (1A dman in TB until boyle gets back, when they will be 1A and 1B) he is playing 4:40 on PP and 4:20 on PK with good point production. also like what is g...
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Isles backup keeper Hedberg gives up Kings Erat winner with 30 sec. remaining
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Kings hand Isles their first loss on poor goaltending Isles Theodore was pulled late in the third when he gave up the tying 5-5 goal with five minutes remaining. Backup Hedberg only faced one shot in the remaining minutes, from Erat with 30 seconds remaining, and let it in for a 5-6 road loss for the Isla...
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Buffalo Top Prospects headed to Long Island
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Buffalo Daily News- 3:00 pm ET
It's no surprise that the Islander organization has a knack for finding the good young Russian Talent- well, on Sunday Oct 7th they got the best. Buffalo will send Nikolai Kulemin, who they spent the 15th overall pick in the 2007 draft in and Igor Grigorenko to Long Isla...
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Bruins Trade Schremp - Mario
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The Boston Bruins today have traded Vancouvers 1st, Rob Schremp and the righst to Mario Lemieux to the Pittsburgh Penguins, in exchange for the Penguins 1st round pick. "We feel as though Robbie's development has seriously stalled, and while adding him to the Canucks first is a steep price to p...
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Line Formations Set on Long Island
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Isles set to gauge competitiveness in Atlantic division As preseason begins, things look quite different at Nassau Coliseum. Half of the starters for the Isles preseason were minor leaguers at the Tigers camp in Bridgeport this summer. "It will be interesting to see how these guys stack up ag...
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Buffalo Press Conference called for 3 pm ET Monday
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Buffalo Daily news- 7:10 ET
The Buffalo Sabres have called press conference for Monday Oct 8th.
With the Sabres happy with their lineup there is much speculation as to the type of news, but many presume the conferences has been called around the possibility of a trade.
Trade rumours have been s...
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HAT TRICK SAPRYKIN, Isles unbeaten in two games
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Russian duo lead Isles to 6-2 win over crosstown rival Rangers Oleg Saprykin once again stars in leading the Islanders to a 1-0-1 start to the season, scoring three goals tonight and top game star to go with his goal and assist and third star from game one. Rookie Russian Alexei Semenov also is on a two g...
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Blues Start Season in Pittsburgh
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After a decent preseason where the heroes Alexander Frolov and Evengi Nabakov were the stars in St Louis, it seems for the new season, they will be dependent on once again. The top line of Saku Koivu, Alexander Frolov and Mark Recchi will be depended on for most of the scoring. Alexander Frolov had 7 goa...
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Tampa too good for the league?
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Philly Management Upset With Lack Of Ideas Before Season 2
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the title says it all boys..
Philly upper management today criticized the lack of ideas and creativity in trades before season 2 progresses...
at such a critical time in the BRHL2 League, why such a lull in activity?
Tagging your assets wisely is a key component to a competitive advantage.....
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