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SJS - 2 BOS - 4 The Bruins responded to the last games shutout by beating up on the losing-est team in the NHL. Boston fired 42 shots at Sharks G Antti Niemi (8.0b/8.5b) and four found the back of the net. Bruins coach Claude Julien still wasn’t satisfied in the post-game press conference. “There has to be accountability between the players and there still are too many breakdowns in communications to be considered a contending club right now.”
ANA - 4 MON - 5 The sellout crowd at the Bell Centre saw an old fashioned freewheeling shootout style of hockey played for the first two periods and then the final 30 minutes were tight checking and conservative as much as the first two periods were not. Canadiens LW Alex Galchenyuk (7.5d/8.5d) scored four points (1G/3A) to claim the First Star honors.
CAR - 1 MIN - 2 Two of the leagues better teams faced off at the Xcel Energy Center tonight and the Carolina Hurricanes came out on just barely the losing end. G Cam Ward(8.0d/9.0d) continued his excellence stopping 33 of 35 shots, while his counterpart G Josh Harding (8.0b/8.0b) did just a little better turning away 25 of 26 shots. The Wild coach praised the other team in postgame interviews and added that his team is facing some PP work at tomorrow’s skate since they went 0 for 5 tonight.
ARZ - 4 LAK - 5 The sportswriters were all talking about their story bylines when the game completed, Why? There were lead changes, total game domination by both sides in the same period of the game, and seven goals scored all in the second period! The first period was edging towards the Kings when Captain Dustin Brown put them ahead with just 26 seconds left in the first period. That’s when it got edge of your seat interesting. The Coyotes traded goals with the Kings around the four minute mark of the second period, then absolutely turned on the pressure and over the next ten minutes dominated the game taking the 3 - 2 lead at 16:34 on RW Radim Vrbata’s (7.5b/7.5b) PP tally. The Kings had taken four consecutive penalties at that point and Kings coach called his teams time out. What happened next was spellbinding, three Kings ES goals in under three minutes to close out the second period and visiting Coyotes were suddenly behind again 5 - 3! The third period was relatively normal with no scores until the Yotes’ C Mike Ribierio (7.5b/7.5b) netted a late goal with just 16 seconds left to make it an interesting ending.
VAN - 1 NJD - 4 The Devils rebounded from last games loss to upend the visiting Canucks behind G Cory Schneider’s ( 8.0b/8.5b) strong goaltending and iced it using two third period goals by C Travis Zajac (7.5c) and D Peter Harrold (6.5c)
CHI - 6 TBY - 2 Visiting Blackhawks spotted the Bolts a two goal lead in the first period then scored three goals in each of the next two periods to cruise to a victory. LW Patrick Sharp (8.5a) and RW Patrick Kane (9.0c) each scored twice to pace the attack.
CAL - 5 DAL - 3 The 7- 3 Flames finished up their five game road trip with a win over the Stars. LW Mike Cammalleri (7.5b) (AI moved him from RW since last game ?) scored his 5th road goal this season in just 7 games!
NYR - 5 PHI - 1 G Henrik Lundqvist (8.5c) was dominant once again allowing just one goal on 38 shots. C Derek Stepan (7.5b/8.0b) and RW Rick Nash (8.5d) each scored twice and C Brad Richards (8.0b) got the other goal as it wasn’t much of a contest at the Wells Fargo Center.
WPG - 2 NAS - 3 The Jets started a four game road trip with a loss at the Bridgestone Arena. After spotting the Predators a two goal second period cushion the Jets battled back furiously on goals by LW Evander Kane (8.0b/8.5b)and Devin Segotuchi (7.0d/7.5d). The Predators had a few surprises for the Jets as D Victor Bartley (6.5c) assisted on all three goals for the games First Star and tripled his seasons point production in this one game.
WAS - 3 EDM - 2 The second game of the Capitals Canada Tour went a little better as they escaped Rexall Place with a shootout victory. LW Brooks Laich (7.5d) scored a SH goal early in the third period to tie it up and then after OT, C Mikhail Grabovski (7.5d) and RW Joel Ward (7.0d) scored shootout goals to win it.

In other NHL news;
FLA - The owners call didn’t come on Monday, or Tuesday or even Wednesday… so Coach Moore pretty much forgot about it and worked hard on the gameplanning for the high flying Buffalo Sabres game. Then the lilting voice of Jo comes over the speakers calling him to the phone… The Owner is miffed that Bonehead did not make any attempt to contact him this week, and the team is obviously going in the wrong direction and if he doesn’t get things turned around in a hurry - there is a lot of unemployed NHL quality coaches looking for jobs in the NHL! And with that the owner slams the handset down a couple times before the phone actually is hung up. Bonehead looks at the dead handset in his hand and says to it “ I don’t think you’re interested in hearing my side of things”. Jo looks in later and asks how it went, He replies “Great if you’re looking for a new boss…” Bonehead decides not to say anything else and goes back to the War Room and get back to work while he still has a job…
MTL - Reporters are shaking their heads again as Montreal apparently flaunts the injury reporting rules and announces that C Tomas Plekanec (8.0d) will miss the next three weeks with an upper body injury. Yet he just got done playing in over 20 minutes of the game tonight and was in the locker room moving freely and talking with no noticeable pain features.
TBY - Ondrej Palat’s (7.0c/7.5c) hand injury was announced and that he will be shelved for approximately three weeks. No report if there will be a call-up or not.
MIN- The Wild apparently are fond of burning the midnight oil and getting the injury filings into the league office just before the 11:59 pm deadline. This time D Jared Spurgeon (7.0c/7.5c) is on the list as a Lower Body Injury and is headed for the I.R. even though he played a complete game and showed no sign of injury in the game or afterwards. The Press Corps is grumbling and some voices are heard saying the NHL had better crack down on this before someone really starts looking into what’s going on…