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Lehtinen Out With Abdominal Strain

by Paul on 11/24/07 at 10:57 AM ET
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via the AP,

Stars right wing Jere Lehtinen will be out indefinitely with an abdominal strain, but might not need surgery as the team originally thought, coach Dave Tippett said after Friday night’s 3-1 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Earlier on Friday night, the club said Lehtinen would undergo surgery on Monday, but Tippett said that was “premature.”

“We’ll continue to look at it,” Tippett said. “We’ll do some tests and see how it reacts over the next few days.”

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The Great Jagr, But…

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 10:40 PM ET
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from Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News (Sunday edition) via the Santa Barbara News Press,

I simply don’t have any great playoff memories of Jagr past 1992….

Maybe Jagr is more Scottie Pippen than Alex Rodriguez. Maybe he’s the sidekick who could never get it done on his own. Jagr floundered with the Penguins when Lemieux wasn’t there. He actually made the Washington Capitals a worse team. They are paying about $4 million a season for Jagr to not be on their team.

He’s all flash and no grind, and that’s a major sin in hockey.

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Uh, Guys

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 09:20 PM ET
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via Empty Netters,

Steigerwald loses all his street cred however when he says Lyndon Slewidge is maybe the greatest national anthem singer in the league. Jeff Jimerson might have something to say about that.

We will acknowledge that Slewidge’s ability to go alternate between English and French during “O Canada” does give him a distinct advantage over Jimerson, but we subscribe to the school of thought that a language doesn’t really exist unless it comes out of Jimerson’s mouth.

Karen Newman doesn’t even need to move her lips!!!

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Frolov Out With Strained Groin

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 08:14 PM ET
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from Inside the Kings,

Alexander Frolov will be out for at least the next two games with a strained groin. You probably remember his strained groin from the end of training camp. Well, this is the other one. It’s always something, isn’t it? So they will shut him down for a few days, perhaps even a week’s worth of games, and see how it goes.

Scott Thornton out too...

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  Tags: alexander+frolov, los+angeles+kings, scott+thornton

Surprising Or Not

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 07:04 PM ET
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from the CP via the Globe and Mail,

Seven weeks into the NHL season, the Predators are nowhere near the NHL cellar, sitting in a playoff spot in the Western Conference at 11-8-2 despite having the league’s lowest payroll.

“Surprising? I don’t know why we’re surprising,” said forward Radek Bonk. “I know we had a tough start, but before the season we didn’t think we were going to be bad. So I don’t think we’re surprising ourselves.

“Obviously when you lose players like Forsberg and Kariya and Timonen, they were stars on this team. But we have good team chemistry here and a good bunch of guys. And lately that’s been showing.”

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Aebischer Being “Loaned” to Switzerland

by Alanah McGinley on 11/23/07 at 05:21 PM ET
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From the Phoenix Coyotes,

Phoenix Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney announced today that the Coyotes have loaned goaltender David Aebischer to HC Lugano of Switzerland National League A. 

Aebischer, 29, appeared in one game for the Coyotes this season and stopped 30 of 33 shots in a loss at Columbus on Oct. 10.  The Fribourg, Switzerland native signed with the Coyotes as a free agent on July 19, 2007.

Updated 3:16pm ET: Some comments from Eric Duhatschek at the Globe & Mail.

 

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Alfredsson Suffering With Sore Groin

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 04:47 PM ET
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via the AP,

Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson has a groin injury and isn’t expected to play Saturday against Philadelphia.

Ottawa’s top scorer was injured during Thursday’s shootout loss to Pittsburgh. He had three assists in the game, but wasn’t able to take a shootout attempt.

Senators coach John Paddock says his captain is day-to-day, but “I don’t think that day-to-day includes playing tomorrow.”

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  Tags: daniel+alfredsson, injury, john+paddock, ottawa+senators

Hockey Weekend

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 03:39 PM ET
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from Brad Holland at NHL.com,

Nashville’s Game Presentation: I had a chance to sit low in a very good seat last night, and watched the game with an ice-level view instead of a bird’s-eye. Outstanding! The Nashville fans were energetic, into the game, and right on top of the action. They were courteous, asking questions of me and even weren’t shy to give a few tips on how to make NHL.com better (I spent the third period sitting next to a young Predators fan and youth Nashville hockey player who knew as much about hockey-at-large as any Canadian kid…

more on Brad’s hockey weekend… and I think I may have to have a sit-down with young Bradley!

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  Tags: arenas, nashville+predators

Penalty Or Not

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 11:27 AM ET
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from the Ottawa Citizen,

No one wants to return to the pre-lockout days, when players water-skied off opponents, particularly grievous in the neutral zone. Still, must the NHL call the love taps on shin pads?

In some games, officials do.

On Hockey Night In Canada’s Coach’s Corner last Saturday, Don Cherry showed a set of highlights to illustrate the dubious nature of many slashing and hooking calls. On any given night in the NHL, a player brushing his stick against another player’s shin pads or pants can result in a penalty.

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Coaching Change For Caps Will Paint A Clearer Picture

by Paul on 11/23/07 at 11:14 AM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,

Afterwards, Hanlon conceded that he’d never undergone anything quite like the current meltdown at any other stage in his career, as a player or a coach, and sounded as if he were out of answers. So Boudreau gets the first chance to pick up the pieces and in a month or so, McPhee will start to get his answers: If this were really a coaching issue, or if the team that he’s rebuilding isn’t quite ready to turn the corner just yet.

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  Tags: coaching, glen+hanlon, washington+capitals

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