January 7, 2008
01-07-08 Inside NHL Boxscores - Weekend edition
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For all the grief I gave Dominick Hasek early in the season for looking old and slow, I've got to give it to him now for getting his game going. Following Detroit's 3-0 shutout of Dallas on Saturday, Hasek is 8-1-1 and has a 93.99% save percentage in his last 10 starts.
I guess it also helps that he's faced over 25 shots in a game just one time in those 10.
Detroit is just rolling, in general. Sunday in Chicago, they finished up a 3 games in 4 days stretch by outscoring their three opponents by a combined 10-2. And two of those games were on the road. - The NHL needs an automatic rule that if you hit another player while he's being completely restrained by linesmen, you're gone for the game, your team needs to kill off a major, and you're suspended for at least 5 games. That, and kill the automatic rules for instigators and maybe players like Steve Downie won't cheap shot players like Jason Blake. Strangely, the NHL is not suspending Downie. At least the Flyers' GM isn't supporting this kind of thuggishness.
- Ottawa continued its struggles against the Southeast conference on Saturday, after going to OT with the last place Lightning. The Sens needed to come back from a 1-3 deficit to force OT, and benefited from some very soft goaltending by Johan Holmqvist.
- In that Ottawa game, Vinny Lecavalier scored one of the nicest goals I'll see all year (here).
- Phoenix is on a roll. They won 5 of 6 on a recent road trip, went 0-2-1 upon returning home, and have now put 4 straight wins together following Saturday's victory over Anaheim. The Coyotes have also taken 3 of 4 from Anaheim this season.
- Edmonton won their 11th shootout game of the year Saturday against the Rangers. Considering they are 1-2 in overtimes this year, and 11-2 in shootouts, that means in games decided in regulation time, the Oilers are 6-17 in 60 minute contests.
- The Hurricanes are struggling. They are 1-3-1 in their last 5 and have a ton of injuries. Through their first 42 games, they have lost 111 man-games to injury.
- Mikko Koivu's leg is finally improving.
- How do you bruise your spinal cord?
- Caps captain Chris Clark is finally practicing again.
- Teemu Selanne is close to making a decision about his playing future.
