LW Taylor Pyatt and RW Lee Stempniak played on the top line with C Sidney Crosby. G Tomas Vokoun (blood clot), RW Beau Bennett (wrist), LW Pascal Dupuis (knee), RW Chris Conner (foot), D Kris Letang (stroke) and D Paul Martin (hand) also were out for Pittsburgh. "I just don't see how it would affect us," Richards said with a puzzled look on his face. The Leafs went into last night's game with the NHL's
cheap nhl jerseys highest average of shots on goal, with 33.5 a game. They registered 32 against the Flyers yesterday.. NOTES: Blue Jackets C Brandon Dubinsky made his season debut after missing the first 26 games following abdominal surgery on Oct. 6. Umberger played his first game in Nationwide Arena since he was traded by the Blue Jackets to the Flyers in June. Bruins come easily through the neutral zone and Krug gets it to Lucic on the left. Boyle, though, misreads play and comes to the middle, allowing Lucic to skate in a few more strides unhindered. Lucic unscreened shot goes through Lundqvist pads. Anaheim and Nashville came in tied atop both the NHL and the Western Conference with 72 points, though the Predators have a game in hand. The teams also have the league's winningest goalies with Pekka Rinne back in net for Nashville after missing three weeks with an injured knee. Frederik Andersen made 44 saves in tying Rinne with his 29th win.. "I think when you lose games, that's an easy way to find a problem, that you don't skate hard enough," center Henrik Zetterberg said. "I think we've been skating hard, maybe we just haven't been skating smart enough. It's easy to do that when we have key guys out of the lineup you try to do everything yourself and try to do too much instead of just your thing.". "As a coaching staff our job is to try to max every guy to where they're playing to their best," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "Corey a couple of years ago was at this pace and last year for the most part he was pretty good as well. Our goaltending has been extremely consistent and one of our strengths.".Owners of a 17 17 3 record after a 4 3 victory over the Kings last Dec. 22, they won only four games in the next two months, losing 19 and tying four. They qualified for the playoffs no major achievement in the NHL in their last game of the regular season, a 3 2 overtime victory over Winnipeg that gave them a 28 43 9 record.. MPR's Art Hughes checks in with a trend piece about Minnesota high school graduate numbers peaking, and colleges laying plans to keep enrollment up. Local high schoolers top out next year, according to a study; Marshall's Southwest State is reaching out to Hispanics and other communities of color. The school also has a 25 student partnership in India, trading on its liberal arts expertise in a land of practical education.. :-)
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