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Hawks notes: Hammy re-signed, finally, and Chicago's hard against the cap again. Sateri didn't play well, but he played well *enough*, and that was good enough for a 2-0 week, including a win over division-leading Nashville. Patrick Zackrisson made his return, which is causing some lineup problems (too many offense-first wingers) but the team seems to be playing well enough anyway. Chicago's now 4 point back of Calgary with a game in hand, gunning for fifth in the west, but Phoenis, Colorado, and Columbus are all only 2 points back.

27th: CHI 4 PHO 3. Zackrisson scored in his first game back and had 6 shots, and poor Wacey Rabbit is demoted to the fourth line. Hamill didn't let his new contract go to his head, scoring once and adding two assists for the game's first star. Andy Rogers beat on ex-Hawk Michael Tessier, but got schooled by Enver Lisin. AHL: NOR 3 SAN 2.

29th: CHI 5 NSH 4. Rabbit can score from the fourth line, and proved it with the GTG. Bumagin scored 1-2-3, Hedman and Rogers both had 2 assists from the blue. AHL: NOR 2 FakeAdmirals 5.


Scoring race: Marleau, Tavares, and Joe Thornton are tied for first place for the Richard Trophy, 21 goals each. Hemsky, last year's winner Chris Doyle, and Frolik are next with 20 apiece, followed by a ton of players with 19 - it's shaping up to be a tight race. Mark Bell and teammate Thomas Vanek lead the Art Ross race. Patrick Marleau's leading the Emery Edge race at +22, but Bubnick and Lynch are both +21 and Stuart, Keseel, and rookie Denis Reul are +20. So far Philly's Brent Seabrook is an early favourite for MVP, but that doesn't always go to the player with the best OA rating. Still, at 7-16-32 in 36GP, Seabrook's making a case for himself, at least for the Norris. In the crease, Ottawa's Joel Gistedt leads starters with a 7.33 OA rating, although he's only 6-15-2-2 - sounds like he should be playing for the Hawks a few years ago.

well the week started like this
Player of the week: J.P. Levasseur (G)
NHL has awarded J.P. Levasseur (G) of New Jersey Devils as Player Of The Week He registered 3 wins and allowed 1 goals in 3 games last week. He also had 2 shutouts.

A native of Canada, J.P. Levasseur was originally drafted to the NHL by the New Jersey Devils in the 1st round of the 2005 entry draft. He has appeared in 524 NHL games during his career, booking 37 career shutouts and allowing 1326 goals. The 26 year old goaltender has played 29 games with the New Jersey Devils this season, allowing 55 goals on 507 while booking 4 shutouts.


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then a loss to Car (hate club) a tie to TB and a win over Was
third in the east looking forward to playoff already

Oilers go 3-0 this week, enough for sole possession of 2nd OA 3 pts behind the Ducks – though again, Boston and Atlanta have games in hand. 2nd in GF and 11th in GA. Top 5 PP and bottom 3 SH. Middle of the pack at home, and unholy terror on the road, having lost just 5 games in regulation outside of Rexall.

Ethan Werek has fallen off the pace for rookie of the year, but it just doesn’t help when you’re benched for being a sad sack. Fellow rookie Denis Reul is tied with Ethan at 20 pts. Johnny “fever’ McFarand has passed Jerome Iginla for the lead in team pts at 37, Iginla still has the most tallies at 19. Just shy of the half way point of the season, and we may be looking at 6 players breaking 20 goals by season’s end if their play continues.

Three players on the farm are scoring at better than 1PPG, all ‘veteran’ players, though Colin Wilson is a young vet at 21. Rookie centre Chris Terry is coming into his own and is now in 4th for team scoring, but will likely move into the top three soon.

Edm 5 Min 3 - Shots were close, but the Oilers were up 2-1 27 minutes in and never looked back, holding Minny scoreless on 7 PP opportunities. The entire team played a solid game, but hats off to the third line, as both Sergei Ogorodnikov and Martin Samuelsson got 10 ratings.

Falcons 7 Aeros 3 - Former Oiler Chase Balisy opened the scoringfor the Aeros, but the Falcons carried the play the rest of the way – Misha Joukov had a goal and 2 assists to lead the way.

Edm 5 Dal 4 (OT) – Another close game, and not just shot-wise. The two teams combined for 5 PP goals on just 11 opportunities – great for the PP percentages, not so much for the SH category. Johnny McFarland scored the winner 19 seconds into OT on the PP. He also set up Iginla and Hayes for the 1st star nod.

Falcons 6 Stars 3 – Another big offensive output for the Falcons. Veteran Chris Gawlik with 3g 1a, and big Chris Terry the rookie with 4 assists. Terry has really blossomed while filling in on the 1st line while Riley Nash was injured, and he’s taken over 1st line centre duties for the season.

Edm 4 Mtl 3 – the 3rd game in 4 nights, but at least the Oilers played host. It was a see-saw battle but Edmonton scored the last goal with 12 minutes to go in the 3rd. 4th liner Ryan O’Marra scored the winner and takes 1st star accolades.

Falcons 5 Bulldogs 2 – 3rd win this week for the AHL club, with Gawlik and Terry leading the way again, both with multi-point games.

Well, didn't get lines in, Back up Dubnyk got to play a couple of extra games and the Rangers scoring came up with 3 out of 4 pts.

Hagman looks great on the top line with Vanek and Bell, but so would Krushelnyski :D

Young Hovinen gets to play the majority of the remaining season, the Rangers keep inching up the standings.....7-1-1-1 in their last ten.

looks like another 100pt season might get you a 6th or 7th seed in the east.

Hovinen will have to continue his push for the Calder if the Rags want their division title this year.

Poloz totally dominating AHL

Kobasew and Suter back to form now that I've stopped experimenting (Was trying Suter on 2nd pairing and Koba on RG)