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May 11, 2009
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SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE
It took four years, but Alexandre Picard showed he might still make it to the NHL. The shifty left winger finished the season with a flurry, scoring 20 goals over his last 22 games with the Syracuse Crunch. For the season, he scored 22 goals and 32 points in 49 games, sharing team MVP honors with Derek MacKenzie. Picard, 23, was the eighth overall pick in the 2004 draft, but has never made the slightest impact with the Columbus Blue Jackets. He has just two assists in 58 NHL games over his four seasons, including one in 15 games this season with Columbus. SECURITY Fourth-year right winger Hugh Jessiman has found a home with the Milwaukee Admirals, signing a one-year contract with the parent Nashville Predators before the Calder Cup playoffs began. Traded from…
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5 FIVE Simeon Varlamov gave up just one goal in his first two games this year in relief of an ineffective Jose Theodore. 4 FOUR Ilya Bryzgalov started Anaheim’s 2007 Cup run when J-S Giguere was sidelined with family issues. 3 THREE Jussi Markkanen jumped into the Oilers crease when Dwayne Roloson’s knee went out in the ’06 final. 2 TWO Chris Osgood took over for Dominik Hasek in the first round and the Wings rode him to last season’s title. 1 ONE Cam Ward’s post-season legend began with Martin Gerber in net and ended with the ’06 Cup in Carolina.…
CHANGE AT THE TOP
THE AVERAGE AGE IN THE NHL was 27.5 this season, just the 18th youngest in history. But the top-five scorers were the second-youngest group ever; even with relative greybeard Pavel Datsyuk, who is 30 years old, finishing fourth. Washington is prominent throughout the season-ending stats. Young Capitals Alexander Semin and Mike Green were their positions’ most consistent scorers. Washington was the second-fastest to score from the start of a game, spent the fourth-most time winning and was No. 8 in team plus-minus. And speaking of No. 8, Alex Ovechkin tied for the lead in multi-point games, scored the highest percentage of his team’s goals, was on the ice for 60.4 percent of his team’s tallies and led two of the four NHL quarters in scoring.…
DON’T SLEEP ON WEST’S BEST
THERE ARE, for your after-hours viewing pleasure, Conans and Craigs, Lettermans and Lenos. They are the kings of Late Shows, Late Nights and any number of Later Still TV options, a steady diet of entertainment for the sleepless, the shiftless and the night owls. A whole lot can happen in the world after folks in the Eastern time zone drop off for a good night’s sleep – and a lot of it flies under the radar for that reason. Naturally, this can be a source of frustration for anyone plying their trade beyond the Rocky Mountains – in the NHL and elsewhere. Even in a YouTube universe, when the truly extraordinary, remarkable or even just quirky can appear in a flash, the net effect is that sometimes good teams such as…
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