Sunday Game Notes

[Terryray]

--------two afternoon games today-----------------


Pittsburg at NY Rangers......1:00 pm EST........................................

Pitt 9-15-4 away
NYR 15-11-2 at home

Two meetings this season, Pitt winning both on home ice 1-0 and 4-1.

This is Pitt's 4th game in 6 days. Three of 'em on the road. Lost sat to NJ.

NYR tonight is 3rd game in 5 days, but got a day's rest.

Pitt 4-4-3 on 0 days rest
NYR 14-16-3 on 1 day rest

Pitt is 4-4-3 last 10 games. 0-3-1 last 4.
NYR 4-5-1 last 10. Won last game in ATL

Lemieux said he will decide after sat game if he will play in NY




NY Islanders at Minnesota.............2:00 EST................................

NYI 15-10-2 away
MN 10-13-7 at home

MN playing 4th game in 6 days, two were on road.
NYI just had 2 days off

NYI on 2 days rest after win, 3-4-1. O/U 2-7
MN on 1 day rest after loss 6-11-2, O/U 14-13

NYI 5-4-1 last 10. 5-2-1 last 8 on road. 3-0-1 last 4.
MN 1-8-1 last 10. Win was at Clbs 10 games ago. Lost last game to Colo in 0-8 rout, largest defeat in MN's young franchise history.

Teams have only met twice before, both last season. MN won both.

MN has scored only 10 goals in last 10 games. Most scored was 2 in three different games.
NYI offense has picked up, avg 4.20 goals/game last 5.

both teams avg goals allowed last five games exactly 3.20

 

[wigs]

from pioneer press...

Andrew Brunette, the Wild's leading scorer, left the Xcel Energy Center on crutches Saturday and might miss today's game against the New York Islanders.

Brunette, the team's captain this month, was unable to practice because of a sore right leg. He was scheduled to have a magnetic resonance imaging test. Brunette, who has 46 points, was injured Friday night in the third period of the Wild's 6-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche when teammate Filip Kuba's slap shot struck him in the back of the leg.

 

[wigs]

from newsday, ny paper......

"Defenseman Roman Hamrlik skated in practice yesterday and is a game-time decision, but it seems likely he'll play.Hamrlik on Thursday took a puck off his right knee and suffered a bone bruise. There was some concern because it is the same knee on which he had arthroscopic surgery in early January."

 

[wigs]

rangers.....

On Friday in Atlanta, Matthew Barnaby played the entire game on the top line with Eric Lindros and Mike York as Low grounded the FLY Line, with Theo Fleury on right wing with Petr Nedved and Radek Dvorak.

 

[wigs]

last one T-Ray, then crashing

refs

pitt/ny- martell & mccreary

nyi/min- leggo & maguire

 

[Terryray]

Lemeiux out

Lemeiux out

Pittsburg Trib-Review reports that Mario won't play today against NYR.

Pitt Post-Gazette lists Hedberg and Richter as probable goalies. I believe it. Very important game for these teams today. Hedberg doing b/b starts 24hrs apart. He's 2-2 in such situations, but excellent in last two games.

 

[Terryray]

Shields in, Sharks jinx, NJ b/b

Shields in, Sharks jinx, NJ b/b

that last wigs post was nearly 6am!

 

[Terryray]

Shields in, Sharks jinx, NJ b/b

Shields in, Sharks jinx, NJ b/b



LA Times reports that "Steve Shields, who has not played since jan 21, will start in goal for Ducks" tonight against Dallas.

Shields is 5-16-2 on season, but 2-6-2 at home. His last outing was poor, and he always bounces back in next. But I doubt it will matter with revenge in Stars' heart.


LeRinkRat reposted that Contra Costa Times story saying "The Sharks are winless in their past 29 contest on the west coast (0-25-4) when the opening faceoff is before 7pm PCT"

NJ is 7-3-2 ATS on 0 days rest. Last season they went 22-8-4-3 on 0 days rest!

 

[Terryray]

Salo in, SJ update, banged up 'Canes

Salo in, SJ update, banged up 'Canes

Edmonton Journal sez "..coach..will got to his No. 1 guy this afternoon".

Sharks did beat Edmonton, barely, in that early game Jan 21. So they are 1-25-4 in such games on W Coast.

Sharks 7-2-1 at home with 1 day rest after home game


Hurricane's official site sez Brind'Amour, Gelinas, Westlund and Hedican are out tonight. and Sami Kapanen, so important to the reunited line last outing that produced well, has a lacerated left hand and will be a game time decision.

 

[wigs]

rest of refs

dal/ana- joannette & larue combined 53-30 home teams ats, (larue 31-13)

buf/nj- kimmerly(5.40 goals per game) & koharski(5.66 gpg)

car/sj- devorski & o halloran combined 60-42 hometeam ats

edm/phx- meier 14-28 o/u 4.88 gpg & watson 19-20 o/u 5.00 gpg

 

[wigs]

belfour in goal tonight for dallas...

also-- from orange cnty reg--

X-rays of Ducks captain Paul Kariya's injured left little finger revealed no fractures, Murray said, and Kariya went through a full practice Saturday at Disney Ice.

"It's sore, but it's OK," Murray said. "There were some stitches, and a bad cut, obviously a lot of bruising. Fortunately, it's his lower hand. It's something he can play with, without any real serious irritation. He seemed to be shooting the puck fine."

Teammate Jason York's attempted dump-in struck Kariya during the initial shift of the third period Friday, causing Kariya to miss more than eight minutes of playing time.

"It didn't feel great," Kariya said Saturday, "but it'll be fine."

 

[Terryray]

More Dallas, some Buff info

More Dallas, some Buff info

Dallas Morning News sez Lehtinen's knee felt fine in Edmonton game, not bothering him much at all.

and Belfour will start monday against LA too, sez paper

Buffalo News reports on how tired leading scorer Satan is, playing his 3rd game in 3 days. His team lost at olympics, so now he's jet lagged, tired, and dissapointed. Paper sez:

"if Satan doesn't have 21 minutes worth of gas tonight, Ruff plans to move Stu Barnes from center to left wing and J P Dumont from left to right wing, inserting Chris Gratton for Satan."

 

[wigs]

good job T-Ray, here is a link which includes some notes like kolzig out 10 to 14 days...also sturm for sj flew back from salt lake and should play tonight after playing yesterday for slovakia. same for handzus from phoenix, should play tonight vs. edmonton but will be his 3rd game in 3 days....burke to start for phoenix tonight also


http://www.rototimes.com/hockey1/index.pl