A letdown would have been understandable one night after Nathan Horton and the Florida Panthers pulled out an overtime victory at Detroit. Instead, it was the New York Rangers who finished the game with an empty feeling. Horton, Jordan Leopold and Steven Reinprecht scored goals and Tomas Vokoun made 32 saves as the streaking Panthers beat the slumping Rangers 3-2 on Saturday night.
The NHL suspended Dallas Stars left winger James Neal two games on Friday for a nasty hit on Columbus' Derek Dorsett during Thursday's 4-1 Blue Jackets victory, the league said on its website.
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Heading into Tuesday's contest, I raised the below questions. Lets see the results, written in italics, plus some other points from the loss.
- Does Torts move Anismov or Higgins to top line center to counteract the Ovechkin line or stick with Vinny P at center? (no real changes in terms of matchups. Anisimov did little, but so did Lisin on the top line, and neither Callahan nor Higgins were pa...
Don't you just love when you're 2/3 of the way through writing something, and, for some unknown reason, hitting backspace jumps you to the last page you were on, erasing everything you've written in the process? Jeeeeez!
Anywho, as this will be abbreviated while I try to cool my boiling blood, RDS reported earlier tonight that the Bruins and center Marc Savard were close to agreeing upon a 7-ye...
Matt Bradley bounced back from having his face bloodied in a first-period fight to net the winning goal as the Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 4-2 in the NHL on Tuesday. Bradley was forced off in the opening period after taking several hard blows to the face from New York's Aaron Voros.
CALGARY - Rookie defenceman Ryan Wilson scored his first NHL goal and added an assist to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night.
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs may be off to uninspiring starts this season, but they proved to a surprisingly low turnout Tuesday that their rivalry is alive and well.
Alex Ovechkin gave the Washington Capitals a jolt simply by returning to the lineup. Matt Bradley delivered the jump they needed with a bloody fight and a big third-period goal. Ovechkin scored in his first game back from a two-week absence, and Bradley rebounded from a messy brawl to lift the Capitals to a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night.
It was made official by the Blue Jackets organization today as rumors had surfaced yesterday about the departure of highly skilled 1st round draft pick Nikita Filatov back to Russia.
The Columbus Blue Jackets have loaned forward Nikita Filatov to CSKA (pronounced CHESH-ka) of the Kontinental Hockey League for the remainder of the 2009-10 season, General Manager Scott Howson announced today...
The Columbus Blue Jackets have lent rookie forward Nikita Filatov to CSKA Moscow of Russia's Kontinental Hockey League for the rest of the season.
The possibility of having Jarome Iginla, Dion Phaneuf, Robyn Regehr and Jay Bouwmeester on the Canadian Olympic team, and goalie Miikka Kiprusoff and Olli Jokinen representing Finland has helped the Calgary Flames.
Curtis Glencross is expected to return to the Calgary Flames' top line just in time for Tuesday night's first-place duel with the Colorado Avalanche at the Saddledome.
NASHVILLE - Steve Sullivan scored two goals and Pekka Rinne made 20 saves to lead the Nashville Predators to a 2-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.
The Maple Leafs showed hustle and grit, but couldn't match the Flames in the scoring department, losing 5-2 on Saturday.
OTTAWA - Jason Spezza's appreciation of the shootout is better some days than others. Saturday was not one of the days he's a fan.
John Tortorella started looking down his bench as the New York Rangers began going deeper and deeper into a shootout standoff. Fresh from the minors, Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau was ready to step up and deliver. Parenteau scored the deciding goal in the seventh round of the shootout to give New York a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
The Ottawa Senators will look to re-establish some winning ways on Saturday afternoon when they take on the New York Rangers in a Hockey Night in Canada matinee affair (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 2 p.m. ET).
First of all, great meeting evitage at the game yesterday, hopefully in future will get a chance to meet more of you.
Why the Fixx edition? For all those who remember their 80s lyrics, all that keeps resonating in my head after watching last night's debacle is" whenever I see the edge, I look, I fall and I get deeper and deeper. After starting 7-1, the Rangers, following Thursday loss are now 3...
A bit of bad weather was all Ilya Kovalchuk needed to make a quicker return to the Atlanta Thrashers. Out since Oct. 24 when the Thrashers captain broke his right foot when struck by a puck, Kovalchuk came back Thursday night and led the Thrashers to a 5-3 victory over the New York Rangers. On Wednesday, it appeared Kovalchuk would miss a seventh game.
It was May 12, 2009. The Boston Bruins had just knotted their second round playoff series at three apiece with the Carolina Hurricanes, victorious by a score of 4-2 in game six on the road. The significance? It was the last time the B’s put together back-to-back wins.
Here they are six months later, entering game 17 of the year, looking to put together their first winning streak of the 2009-...
The Ottawa Senators can see first hand what they're missing when Dustin Penner and the Edmonton Oilers pay a visit on Tuesday night (7:30 p.m. ET).
The Calgary Flames bring a three-game winning streak into Montreal on Tuesday night to face former teammate Mike Cammalleri and the Canadiens.
Lou Lamoriello did see Wayne Gretzky in his downtown Toronto hotel lobby on Monday morning, and the Great One will attend the Hockey Hall of Fame formal proceedings in the evening.
( Update 1:38 p.m. EST -- Bob McKenzie of TSN reports that Glencross receives three games for the following hit.
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