Month: March 2010

They got three goals from players who joined the team in the past four weeks, including one each from two players making their Thrashers debut, en route to a 6-3 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night at Philips Arena. The win was the second consecutive for the surging Thrashers, who are 4-0-2

(Rochester, March 4)… A crowd of people swarmed the front of Shamrock Jack’s Wednesday night to get a look at the restaurant’s four new employees. Decked out in green Amerks T-shirts, complete with their numbers and a shamrock, Tyler Plante, Steve MacIntyre, Luke Beaverson and Evgeny Dadonov of the Rochester Americans took food and drink

The face of a real hockey player… Can you come up with a great caption for this photo?

Yesterday after the match San Jose vs. New Jersey on of the leaders of the Devils and the Russian national team Ilya Kovalchuk shared his views on the failure at the Vancouver-2010. “It is very hard to speak about the Vancouver Olympics at the moment for the wounds are still fresh and have not covered

Don Brennan Slam! Sports At the Olympic break, Sutton was not only 22nd in the league in hits delivered but also second with 153 blocked shots. He and Anton Volchenkov give the Senators two of the NHL’s top-five puck stoppers of those who don’t list netminder as their occupation. Does Sutton’s acquisition mean Murray plans

Canadien Press 3-2-2010 Ilya Kovalchuk scored a power-play goal against Olympic teammate Evgeni Nabokov to cap New Jersey’s three-goal second period and the Devils returned from a two-week break by beating the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Tuesday night. Ilya has 33 goals and 65 point for the season.

The Atlanta Thrashers started their post Olympic playoff push off with a bang. Goalie Johan Hedberg saved 34 out of 36 shots in a 4-2 win over the Florida Panthers. Tuesday’s win was Hedberg’s 15th win of the season.

Mark McGuire, Timesunion.com 3-3-2010 “Making a difference in hockey “ Check out Mark McGuire’s excellent piece about the hockey buzz post Olympics. Here’s all they need to deliberate: On the first Monday and Tuesday in March, with college basketball reaching a fever pitch and pitchers and catchers in Florida and Arizona and the NBA playoffs

Sportstelegram.com 3-3-2010 “Great White North not kind to Sharks Sharks bow at Winnipeg, 3-1” After T.J. Trevelyan scored his 17th goal, the Manitoba Moose scored three unanswered goals and posted a 3-1 victory last night at the MTS Centre. It was the Sharks’ first game in Canada since they moved to Worcester for the 2006-2007

1. Ilya Kovalchuk/New Jersey Devils – Easily the biggest name to be dealt so far and likely for the reason of the season, Kovalchuk brings a scoring touch that even Zach Parise couldn’t provide. This one-two punch makes the Devils who were already a legitimate threat, one of the Stanley Cup favorites. The tricky part