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December 18, 2007
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH
There’s no need to look any further than Tampa Bay Lightning star Vincent Lecavalier for player-of-the-month honors in November. The 27-year-old Bolts center set a torrid pace with eight consecutive games in which he collected multiple points; in all, Lecavalier racked up seven goals and 21 points in that white-hot stretch from Nov. 3-19, including a hat trick and five points against Carolina on Nov. 14 (he was also plus-5 against the Canes). Lecavalier had points in 10 of 14 games in November, and responded with big efforts following games in which he didn’t make the scoresheet. After going pointless against the Islanders on Nov. 1, Lecavalier had three assists against Atlanta Nov. 3 to kick-start his eightgame multi-point binge. And then when the Rangers finally held him off the scoresheet on…
SAINT NICKLAS
NICKLAS LIDSTORM DEFENSEMAN DETROIT RED WINGS MATS SUNDIN SWEARS he has never heard anybody say a bad word about Nicklas Lidstrom. “I don’t know him that well, but every time he’s around the group, he’s a guy you love to have on your team,” says the Toronto Maple Leafs captain. P-J Axelsson smiles when asked about Lidstrom’s dark side. “No,” says the veteran Boston Bruins winger with a laugh, “I do not believe you’ll ever find anybody to say a bad word about Nicklas Lidstrom.” Oh yeah? Remember last season when that computer dude from Vancouver tried to get Canucks spare part Rory Fitzpatrick voted onto the starting lineup for the Western Conference in the NHL All-Star Game? He ran a rather humorous smear campaign against some of the best defensemen in the game – Chris Pronger, Scott Niedermayer…
WRONG ERA FOR ERIC
With regards to the recent Hall of Fame inductees, I feel that, due to the two-line pass rule, the league and fans were robbed of what could have been one of the best power forwards the modern era has ever seen. After watching footage from the mid-1980s to the present, I have seen many forwards absolutely crushed by opposing defenders standing at the red line and the offensive blueline. In light of the Scott Stevens hit, if Eric Lindros had played most of his career in the post-lockout era, that career could have ended the way it started.…
FRESH LEGS
TUUKKA RASK BOSTON BRUINS, G DEBUT Nov. 20, 2007 VS. Toronto (4-2 win) ICE TIME 60:00 KEY STAT 30 saves, .938 SP “MY FIRST GAME came against the team that drafted me, the Maple Leafs, so there was definitely an added incentive to prove my NHL skills. I gave up the first two goals of the game, including a Mats Sundin curveball that I thought was going past the net. On another night, maybe I stop that one. I really liked the way the guys played to get the goals we needed in our 4-2 win. I kept the puck from the game. That’s going on my wall at home somewhere. After starting the year in the AHL, the speed of the game didn’t bother me so much, but the players are definitely smarter and make better passes, so…
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