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If You Trap, You Better Win

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04/23/06 at 09:48 AM ET | Comments (0)

from Terry Jones of the Edmonton Sun,

To some, Edmonton playing a playoff game using the trap is a sad day for hockey. Edmontonians have taken an immense amount of pride over the years when coaches were killing the game around the league that their team religiously refused. When the lockout ended, much was made of the new NHL rules bringing back 'Oilers Hockey,' as it came to be known. But to most fans, I suspect, this is a right now sort of thing. The negative right now is that they lost 3-2 in double overtime and are down 1-0 in the series. They trapped. They gave up 57 shots and blocked 35 more. They lost. If you are going to trap in Edmonton, you damn sure better win. They didn't.

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Today’s Games

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04/23/06 at 09:45 AM ET | Comments (0)

Wings/Oilers (HD) and Sharks/Predators are the NBC games today. No coverage map yet (added 9:27am, here is the coverage map for today). Whatever game your local NBC station is covering, the other game will be available on Center Ice. Also note, there is no OLN-HD broadcast available today.

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Pulford Monitoring Playoffs

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04/23/06 at 09:32 AM ET | Comments (0)

from Bob Verdi of the Chicago Tribune,

And thanks to the Blackhawks, who have been rebuilding since 1961, there will be no playoff hockey this month, or this year, but it's a long century. The last one certainly was. While franchises from Detroit, Dallas and New Jersey could win championships in both the NBA and NHL, the United Center will house no such possibility because our icemen goeth quietly to the first tee again, suspecting they are in the wrong sport. When it comes to playing hockey, the Hawks might be a better golf team.

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Ducks Meet Phaneuf

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04/23/06 at 09:27 AM ET | Comments (0)

from the OC Register,

Dion Phaneuf is the reason they should expand the rinks. Dion Phaneuf is also the reason there should be a trap door. He is a tornado without a warning siren, the best thing for Canadian dentists since frozen Oreo sandwiches. "He isn't trying to hit you," said Brent Sutter, his coach in junior hockey, "he's trying to hurt you."

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“Junior” Jacobs Wants To Be More Involved

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04/23/06 at 09:23 AM ET | Comments (0)

from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

(Craig) Patrick is likely to become a GM candidate in Boston, but we're told the likelihood is growing that the job will be given to interim GM Jeff Gorton, the former assistant GM who ascended to the position upon Mike O'Connell's late-season dismissal. We're hearing that executive VP Charlie Jacobs, the son of owner Jeremy Jacobs, is interested in assuming more responsibility within the organization, and that includes the hockey department. An accomplished GM, therefore, might not make for the best mix.

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Stars Looking For Solution

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04/23/06 at 01:47 AM ET | Comments (0)

from the Dallas Morning News via the Mercury News,

It's a tad bit ironic - or maybe even terrifying - that the Stars built this team on the philosophy that solid puck-moving defensemen will be the key to winning in the "new NHL." Poor puck play by the defense was probably the No. 1 reason for a 5-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday in Game 1 of the best-of-7, first-round playoff series. But is the solution to hold the puck less or hold it more?

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Strangeness Surrounds Jagr Injury

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04/23/06 at 01:42 AM ET | Comments (0)

from EJ Hradek of ESPN,

In his first playoff game as a Ranger, Jaromir Jagr, the club's de facto captain, didn't have a Mark Messier moment. In fact, Jagr didn't finish the game, leaving with an apparent injury to his left arm/shoulder with just under six minutes remaining in the club's 6-1 Game 1 loss to the rival Devils. Jagr's injury was strange for a couple of reasons. First, he was on the ice in a penalty-killing situation. Jagr, not known for his defensive prowess, has been called upon to kill penalties only a handful of times during the course of the season. After the game, Rangers coach Tom Renney said he put Jagr on the ice in that situation to give him some "practice." At that time, the Rangers trailed 5-1. However, after watching his team give the Devils 13 power-play chances, Renney probably figured he might need Jagr to play in that role at some point in the series.

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Lay Out Time

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04/23/06 at 12:36 AM ET | Comments (0)

Brian Campbell of the Sabres flat out smoked R.J. Umberger of the Flyers midway through the 1st OT tonight. Umberger made it to the dressing room, but was very dazed and confused. If you missed the play, it was one of those look out passes up the middle, head down and BOOM. Game is now in intermission of 1st OT period. It is also on INHD here in Detroit, but still no schedule of the OLN-HD games on the INHD website. added 12:20am Sunday, David at Hockey Fights informed me the video is available at his site. Make sure to "save as". You can also view a You Tube version at the Ice Block.

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Datsyuk Ready

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04/22/06 at 09:42 PM ET | Comments (0)

from the Globe and Mail,

The good news for fans of the National Hockey League playoffs is that the Detroit Red Wings' classy sniper Pavel Datsyuk expects to be back in harness for Sunday's second game of the Western Conference quarterfinal against the Edmonton Oilers. The bad news is the Oilers will be greeting him with an old strategy that was thought discarded in the new age NHL – the neutral zone trap.

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Suggestion For NBC

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04/22/06 at 06:02 PM ET | Comments (0)

Please don't run the Intermission Report graphic while the game is going on. You see what happens, the guy with the puck is behind the Dodge Ram logo. Save if for a stoppage of play, don't shrink the screen on us. We are bombarded with enough graphics during the game.

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