Friday Scores

[JiriHrdina]

Day 72
558 WILD 6 HURRICANES 3
559 FLAMES 5 WINGS 1
560 STARS 0 BLUES 6
561 AVALANCHE 3 COYOTES 4
562 SHARKS 2 JACKETS 6
563 CANUCKS 0 PREDATORS 4
564 DUCKS 3 OILERS 5
565 LIGHTNING 3 KINGS 3 (OT)
566 BRUINS 3 JETS 4
567 CAPITALS 5 THRASHERS 1
568 NORDIQUE 4 RANGERS 5
569 ISLANDERS 4 DEVILS 2
570 FLYERS 3 PENGUINS 2 (OT)
571 SABRES 3 PANTHERS 3 (OT)

[Young Guns]

WINGS GET SPANKED YET AGAIN!

Comrie and Nedved both injured, Starting goalie yanked yet again. Looks like the Wings will be looking for a new coach.

[Flickered Flame]

Jets edge Bruins!

Mike Ribeiro flys high in his Jet debute, with a goal and an assist. Ty Conklin the former Bruin made 30 saves to pick up his 5th win of the season. Denis Arkhipov also continued his hot play by picking up 2 points including the game winning goal.

[Mango]

Way to stink it up - early morning skate tomorrow and threats of changes loom yet again.

[KevanGuy]

Wow bad game for Theodore. B's outshoot the popgun Jets 33-16 and still cant get it done. Its cursed I tells ya, CURSED!

[OILFAN #81]

NHL: Capitals 3 @ Thrashers 2 (OT)

CPHL: Capitals 5 @ Thrashers 1

Looks like Washington had Atlanta's number in the NHL and CPHL.

After winning 5 straight, I was due for a loss. Ugly game tonight. Denis had an off night. Up next are the Flyers. No panic here at all. We will bounce back.

[Sylvanfan]

JACKETS JUMP THE SHARKS


John Tortarella before his infamous Shark jump act from back in the 1970's

After putting up one of their worst efforts in Sylvanfan's short regime as Jackets GM the team responded with a solid effort to down the lowly CPHL Sharks 6-2.

Cory Stillman got off to a quick start scoring goals 30 seconds apart just after the mid way point of the first period en route to his first hat trick of the season. Peter Cajanek, Pierre Turgeon, and Dave Scatchard also scored for the Jackets who held period leads of 4-0 and 4-2. Cajanek also finished the night with 3 points as he had a goal and two assists. Adrian Aucoin, and Brian Rafalski both collected a pair of assists and finished the night +4. Pierre Turgeon also had a multiple point game as he tallied a goal and an assist. Backup Brent Johnson is creating a goaltending controversy in Columbus as he won for the 7th time in his last 8 starts and now sports a record of 7-3 as a Jacket with a goals against average of 2.93 and a save percentage around .900.

With the win the Jackets finally leap frog over the struggling Dallas Stars and up to 5th in the Howe Conference with 39 points. Still things remain extremely close as no less than 5 teams all sit within two points of the Blue Jackets. Theres a definite split after the top 4 right now, and GM Sylvanfan feels that within another 2 weeks it will be as many as 10 teams within 6 points of each other battling for 5 playoff spots in the Howe. As the season progresses things are starting to look more like conventional wisdom suggests they should have in the Howe. Especially the Red Wings falling further back of everyone else.

[looooob]

surprise result here. newcomers make their presence felt as Sabres tie the Panthers

Stajan ties it up in the dying seconds. Steen plays only a few minutes, picks up a point and gets tossed for the game for HOOKING!

[Goffie]

Losses keep Piling up for Pens

The Pittsburgh Penguins continue to slide without #1 defenseman Sergei Gonchar. The Pens were badly outplayed by the Flyers and were lucky to get a point in this game. The good news is Gonchar is a week away from returning and should be in the Pens lineup after the Christmas break. The Pens have 2 days off before they play 3 games in a row to finish off their schedule for 2006.

[HalifaxDrunk]

HOWL!

Sundin does the Trick. It was mentioned that Mats has to shake off the rust after his 1st game back with no points. Well, consider him rust free. Sundin scored his 1st hat trick of the season and led the Yotes to a 4-3 victory over the Avalanche. Alex Yashin had an assist on each goal while Rucinsky added a helper as well. The Coyote top line had 7 points and was a +9 and swept the game stars.

Game Stars
1 - Mats Sundin (COY)
2 - Alexei Yashin (COY)
3 - Martin Rucinsky (COY)

With a rare Saturday-Sunday off the Desert Dogs are holding their team Christmas party at GM Drunks Penthouse Condo tonight.

[Hanna Sniper]

Wild Outclass The ‘Canes



If you travel a long enough line eventually the bubble has to burst. Not only did the Minnesota Wild burst that bubble, they made a festive occasion out of it. The closest the ‘Canes come last night to matching the visiting Wild was the opening face-off between Stephane Yelle and Scott Gomez. Scott Gomez clearly won the draw, passed by Yelle and made a beautiful pass to his streaking winger Simon Gagne for the clear breakaway. Although Gagne wasn’t able to beat the post on the opening play that was the most resistence the ‘Canes offered the Wild the rest of the night.

Kim Johnsson, Freddy Meyer, Joel Kwiatkowski, Joe Sakic, Matt Cullen and Tomas Kaberle all took turns lighting the lamp on the isolated ‘Canes goaltenders. Both David Aebischer and Craig Anderson seen action last night as the Wild racked up an amazing 40 shots on the supposedly stingiest defence in the league.

The Wild’s Matt Cullen enjoyd a career game as the 3rd line winger racked up a 5 points night to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 6-2 victory of the red hot Hurricanes.

[flambers]

Rangers 5 Nordique 4

With back to back games Rangers decided to give the start to the Osgood and hope he can play a strong game. Osgood had a rough first period but the Rangers offense keeps the game close. Once again as Jagr goes the Rangers go.

Game Stars
1 - Jaromir Jagr (RAN)
2 - Cory Sarich (RAN)
3 - Brent Sopel (RAN)

News and Notes

Zubrius was hit from behind by Bonk which caused Zubrius to leave the game. MacT was extremely ticked off after the game and has asked Flambers to send in the tape....

When asked if Zubrius would play the next game MacT told the reporter to get lost and called him a few choice names...

[HalifaxDrunk]

Originally Posted by flambers

When asked if Zubrius would play the next game MacT told the reporter to get lost and called him a few choice names...

McTavish is a jerk.