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Show stoppers
Martin St-Louis has been a weak version of his 2004, award-winning self. There is less depth on the blueline and less leadership in the dressing room. Their special teams have taken a year-long vacation, last seen headed south out of Paraguay. Yet for all that, the main reason the Tampa Bay Lightning enter these playoffs as an afterthought rather than a champ to be dethroned is the man not between the pipes. Nikolai Khabibulin stunk out the joint in Chicago this season. He hasn’t been any better than the John Grahame-Sean Burke duo has performed as his Tampa replacements. Knowing that, the Bolts would take him back for the next two months in a heartbeat. If he’s done it before, there’s a chance he can do it again. That kind of thinking has…
2006 playoff primer
Tentative Playoff Schedule In the finale of the last NHL post-season, played almost two years ago, Tampa Bay edged Calgary 2-1 in Game 7 at the St. Pete Times Forum to capture the Stanley Cup on home ice. The 2006 NHL playoffs begin Friday, April 21, with the last possible date for Game 7 of the Cup final being June 19. Playoff dates are subject to change if a round ends earlier than expected, allowing the next round to start sooner. TV Coverage NBC All four rounds. Regional coverage of first two rounds and two conference final games. Stanley Cup final coverage of Games 3 through 7. Broadcast Team: Mike Emrick, John Davidson and Pierre McGuire. OLN 15-20 first and second round matchups and 8-12 conference final games. First two games of Stanley Cup final will…
Fantasy draft all about ritual
thehockeynews.com To paraphrase from every gangsta rap song ever made: Ain’t no party like an NHL playoff fantasy draft party. Why? Where else can friends, office workers – and that one weird dude nobody seems to know – gather to hoist a few beverages, mark their territory and mercilessly razz every other drafter in the room? Where else can you enjoy the timeless “Who Is A Better Final-Round Pick: Cory Cross, Toni Lydman or Mark Streit” debate? Where else can you be your own GM without the burdens of business attire, fiscal responsibility, and the ever-lovin’ media? Nowhere, that’s where. And though every draft’s, ahem, trivial-and-in-no-way-illegal monetary rewards might be most important to its contestants, it’s really the rituals of draft day that keep us coming back every third week in April. All fantasy pool…
Thrashers boast snipers, stopper
The Thrashers are confident they can pull off an upset or two in the playoffs, assuming they get there. Against the top teams in the East, they went (UPDATE)3-3-1 against Carolina, won two of their first three against Ottawa, and went 2-2-0 versus the Rangers (winning both games after goalie Kari Lehtonen returned). The franchise hasn’t made the playoffs before, but this team has several players who have been there. Stanley Cup winners include Bobby Holik, Slava Kozlov and Greg de Vries. Peter Bondra, Scott Mellanby and Niclas Havelid have played in the final. HOW THEY BEAT YOU The Thrashers can score with the best of them – led by Ilya Kovalchuk, Marc Savard, Marian Hossa and Kozlov – and have Lehtonen to make up for any mistakes. When they’re at their…
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