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[Romeo Delight]

Character Win

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=156594&hubname=nhl

CALGARY (CP) - Crippled by an injury-riddled defence and a jet-lagged offence, the Vancouver Canucks showed their resilience Tuesday night.

Markus Naslund and Anson Carter scored second-period goals nine seconds apart to lead the Canucks to a 2-1 win over Calgary, moving Vancouver into a tie with the Flames atop the Northwest Division.

Calgary led 1-0 and seemed to be controlling the play when the complexion of the contest quickly changed.

At 18:20, Steve McCarthy's pass to Brendan Morrison at the Flames blue-line caught Calgary on a line change. Morrison then chipped the puck to Naslund, who broke in alone and fired a high shot past Miikka Kiprusoff.

''Auld (Vancouver goalie Alex Auld) was yelling at me to throw the puck up and I just turned my head before I got it and passed it up to Mo,'' said McCarthy. ''I've certainly been on the other end when you're tired and you're trying to get off the ice.

''It was a great play by Alex to communicate.''

Just nine seconds later, Bryan Allen and Olympic goal medallist Daniel Sedin combined to spring Anton Carter for his 22nd of the year. Carter beat Kiprusoff with a shot from the top of the faceoff circle.

That's all the offence Vancouver needed as Auld stopped 30 shots to improve to 26-16-3.

Vancouver's defence was minus four regulars with Olympic casualties Sami Salo (shoulder) and Mattias Ohlund (ribs) joining Ed Jovanovski (groin) and Nolan Baumgartner (ankle) on the sidelines.




Uh-oh, what's that ? A character win for the Nucks?

Look out. Naslund looked like he was back.

[Nickdfresh]

ROLY the Goalie to Edmonton for picks...

TSN.ca Staff

3/8/2006 3:08:48 PM

The Edmonton Oilers have a new No. 1 netminder, acquiring Dwayne Roloson from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for a first round pick and a conditional draft pick.

The conditional pick is a third rounder if Roloson re-signs with Edmonton.

The Wild were rumoured to be shopping off one of their goalies, and Roloson was the odd man out after the team re-signed Fernandez to a multi-year contract last week.

"I think it means that they think they can win the Cup," Roloson's agent Mark Witkin said from Boston.
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The Wild helped the Oilers despite being only seven points behind Edmonton for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.

Roloson, 36, is 6-17 this season with a 3.00 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage. A veteran of 269 games, Roloson played in 162 matches over the course of the past four seasons with the Wild and was a Western Conference All-Star in 2004.

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[Va Beach VH Fan]

Here's my rant on the NHL trade deadline on my new blog;

http://www.fantasyoutlaws.com/blog/ffnews.asp

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Let's try that again, I'm playing with the hyperlink....

NHL trade deadline day - This crap really gets old

[POJO_Risin]

The Recchi deal was huge from the Pens...and they really didn't give up much...

They were selling it here as giving up to much here...

and I was laughing my ass off...

for fucking recchi...who will step right in where Cole was...

and when Cole comes back in the playoffs...

this Canes team...

adding Weight and freakin' Recchi...

could be the team to beat...

not mentioning that idiotic game they lost to fucking PHilly on the goal with 2 tenths of a second left...

fuckers...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Giving up too much ??

Kolanos ?? Tell me that wasn't a throw in...

The other dude wasn't playing hardly at all..

And a 2nd round pick....

But they were getting offers from several teams, including Philly and Ottawa....

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I like the makeup of the Canes...

If they get deep in the playoffs, road trip is a callin'....

[POJO_Risin]

I think Pittsburgh did 2 things with that deal...

1. Made up for Cole...

and...

2. Honored the Canes...because Rutherford was knockin' on Recchi's door 2 weeks ago...before Cole got injured...

so I think they made the deal based off those 2 reasons...

lmfao...which is ridiculous...

and if they go far...let me know...

we COULD...look into getting a ticket package for the playoffs...

and for the games you couldn't make...we could hawk your tix...

just a thought...

don't know if I WANT to do it...but like I said...a thought...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Originally posted by POJO_Risin
and if they go far...let me know...

we COULD...look into getting a ticket package for the playoffs...

and for the games you couldn't make...we could hawk your tix...

just a thought...

don't know if I WANT to do it...but like I said...a thought...

Dude, that's serious cashola, no ??

Canes' playoff ticket prices

[POJO_Risin]

hadn't looked...

[Va Beach VH Fan]

I think a playoff game is definitely in the cards though....

It'd be nice if they had a nice first round matchup, like Philly....

[Nickdfresh]

Jagr Sets Rangers' Points Record in Win
Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:08 AM EST
The Associated Press
By JOHN NICHOLSON

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Jaromir Jagr broke New York's single-season points record — and gave the Rangers a little cushion in the Atlantic Division race.

Jagr assisted on four straight goals in a 5-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Wednesday night to pass Hall of Famer Jean Ratelle on the team scoring list and help the Rangers move four points ahead of second-place Philadelphia.

"It's a big honor for me," Jagr said. "I'm glad I did it in the first period. ... We need the points. We want to stay in first in the division."

Despite his reemergence as one of the league's elite scorers, Jagr plans to retire when his contract expires in two years.

"I'll be 36. I'm going back to Europe," the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Drawing chants of "MVP! MVP!" from the many Rangers fans at Nassau Coliseum, Jagr broke the tie with Ratelle at 7:23 of the first period, setting up Petr Prucha's power-play goal for point No. 110. Jagr also assisted on Martin Straka's three goals.

"We had a lot of chances," Jagr said. "Sometimes it might look easy like tonight and other times it's really tough. That's just hockey."

Jagr, trying to hold off Joe Thornton for his sixth NHL scoring title, is the clear favorite to win the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player, an award he won in 1998-99 with Pittsburgh. Jagr has 113 points in 73 games, seven more than Thornton has in 70 games for Boston and San Jose.

"Without question, he's the MVP," Islanders goalie Rick DiPietro said. "Every time he gets the puck on his stick, he makes a good play. He's tough to defend.

"Them getting in the playoffs is great for hockey. I think the new rules have helped them out considerably. They're a tough team to play against."

Jagr also has an NHL-leading 52 goals, tied with Adam Graves for the team record. The 34-year-old Czech star had a chance to break that tie on a breakaway midway through the third period, but DiPietro stopped him with a pad save.

"It wasn't a good shot," Jagr said. "I thought someone was coming up behind me and rushed it. I'd like to have that one back."

Ratelle had 109 points in 1971-72, and Graves set the goal record in 1993-94.

Henrik Lundqvist also broke the Rangers' record for victories by a rookie, making 18 saves for his 30th win. The Swedish Olympic goalie improved to 30-10-9 to break a tie with Jim Henry (1941-42) and Johnny Bower (1953-54).

"It's a big number for me, especially in my first season," Lundqvist said. "The whole team played a great game."

Blair Betts also scored for the Rangers. Alexei Yashin scored his 25th goal for the Islanders, 10 points out of the final Eastern Conference playoff spot.

Prucha's goal, the rookie's 29th, opened the scoring at 7:23 of the first period. Straka scored at 8:53 and 13:59 of the first period and completed his hat trick at 12:14 of the second with his 18th goal of the season.

The Rangers, coming off a 5-4 shootout victory over Buffalo on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, will face Eastern Conference-leading Ottawa on Thursday night as they close in on their first playoff spot since 1997.

The Rangers and Flyers are fighting for the Atlantic title, with the winner in position to get the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Conference and the loser expected to open against Buffalo in the 4-5 series.

DiPietro, also in goal Tuesday night in a 2-0 loss in Montreal, made 17 saves. The Islanders have lost six of their last eight games.

Jagr is 16th on the NHL's career goals list with 589, 22nd in assists with 833 and 14th in points with 1,422 in 1,100 games with Pittsburgh, Washington and New York. In 73 career games against the Islanders, he has 51 goals and 71 assists for 122 points.

"He's a special hockey player," Islanders interim coach Brad Shaw said. "Early in his career, he looked like this. I don't know what happened in a few of his middle years, but certainly this year, he's found the love of the game again. We stood around and watched him make a lot of plays. We gave him too much respect and too much room."

Notes: The games was the sixth of eight games between the team this season. The Rangers have won the last four — the last three at the Coliseum — after losing the first two. ... Jagr extended his points streak to 10 games. He has nine goals and 12 assists during the run. ... The Rangers' Colton Orr and the Islanders' Eric Godard fought in the first period, moments after Godard and Petteri Nokelainen hammered Darius Kasparaitis into the end boards with simultaneous checks. Orr also fought John Erskine in the second. ... The Islanders activated Nokelainen from injured reserve. The 20-year-old Finn, selected 16th overall in the 2004 draft, missed 58 games because of patella tendinitis in his right knee. The Islanders sent center Jeremy Colliton and defenseman Rob Collins to Bridgeport of the AHL.

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He's awesome, but we'll see how the big Czeck does in the playoffs though...

[Romeo Delight]

Jagr has played well but how about Teamu Selanne?

Comeback player of the year, even better than Jagr, I think.

Jagr pisses me off beacause he is the most talented fucker out there, but after he signed for huge dollars in Washington, he realized he hated it there and sulked.

At least Teamu had major knee surgery as an excuse for a drop-off in production.

Just outstanding year for him and Jagr

[Romeo Delight]

Hey Nickd...What's up with the Sabres.

Losing 7-0 to the Leafs???

I wasn't concerned with their losing streak until this.

Leafs are out of playoff race, but Leaf fans can't let go...it is funny.

Even TSN up here still gives 4 minutes to the doomed Lafs and gives the surging Canucks 30 seconds.

Some things never change.

[Romeo Delight]

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