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The NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.
The NHL's Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, had the following memo, obtained by TSN, posted in every NHL dressing room on Friday.
"Recently, we have had two (2) supplemental discipline incidents involving direct elbow blows to the head. This is a play that we have been trying to remove from our game for a number of years. In one case there was no injury and in the other incident the elbowed Player received a concus
General managers will have one extra day to make NHL trades. The league said yesterday it has pushed the trade deadline back to March 4. A high volume of games forced the switch. There are 12 games on the schedule March 3 and only two March 4. The league and NHL Players' Association agreed on the change.
According to TSN:
Ron Wilson spent the day mixing defensive pairs in the drills and worked on two-on-nones with break-outs and forwards driving to the net. - TSN
Practice Lines
Forwards:
Blake - Antropov - Mitchell
Steen - Moore - Tlusty
Hagman - Grabovski - Kulemin
Mayers - Stajan - Ponikarovsky
Defence:
Kaberle - Schenn
Frogren - Van Ryn
Colaiacovo - Kubina
Finger - Stralman
White
Goaltender:
Toskala
Joseph
Posted by
billy on 04/20/2008 - 02:39 PM
DALLAS - The Anaheim Ducks are fully aware of how poorly Stanley Cup champions have defended their titles lately.
And, sure, they realize how close they've already come to adding to that sad history, having faced deficits of 2-0 and 3-1 in their first-round series against the Dallas Stars.
But the Ducks are still alive and they're going into Game 6 on tonight with more than optimism. They also have a revived special teams, which - the way this series has gone - might be enough for them to become the first reigning ch
Posted by
billy on 04/17/2008 - 12:54 AM
The Anaheim Ducks will likely have forward Corey Perry back in the lineup on Thursday for Game 4 of their Western Conference series against the Dallas Stars.
Perry has been out six weeks after being struck in the thigh by the skate blade of Colorado goalie Jose Theodore in a regular season game and suffered a lacerated tendon above his right knee.
The injury caused Perry - who led the Ducks with 29 goals - to miss the remainder of the regular season and the first three games of the playoffs.
"I feel prett
Posted by provopete on 11/17/2008 - 05:25 PMThe NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.