Year: 2010

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

Ilya Kovalchuk didn’t win an Olympic medal in Vancouver, but he’d like to give it another try in four years.Ilya Kovalchuk is among those who’d like to see NHL players take part in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Particularly because the 2014 Winter Olympics will be played in Sochi, Russia, Kovalchuk would like to

In the afterglow of an historic Canadian gold medal win, it may be a Russian dilemma that brings Senators fans down to earth again. Ottawa GM Bryan Murray guested on the local Team 1200 afternoon show and was asked where negotiations were with soon to be unrestricted free agent Anton Volchenkov. Murray’s response was troubling…

If you’ve been wondering where the Senators organization stands in contract negotiations with Anton Volchenkov, Bryan Murray was on this afternoon’s Healthy Scratches program on Team 1200 and here is a transcript of his conversation with co-host Steve Lloyd (Ed. note: Murray’s dialogue is in bold. Here is the Facebook link to listen to the

Hockey Boards 2/26/2010 6. Sergei Shirokov, LW – Manitoba Moose (AHL) Acquired: 6th round (163 overall), 200610 March 1986, 5’ 10″, 175 lbs Currently second on the Moose in scoring, and for the most part, Sergei Shirokov hasn’t looked out of place in his first professional North American season. However, after starting 2010 at close