Sharkspage (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
- The Sharks earned their 6th straight win, 4th straight on the road, with a tight checking 3-2 shootout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Wednesday night. Joe Thornton and Dany Heatley (PP) scored in regulation, and Dan Boyle scored the lone OT shootout goal to pad the Sharks lead for first place in the Pacific Division. San Jose trails Colorado by 1 point for the best record in the Western Conference....
Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yesterday, Blue Jackets Coach Ken Hitchcock told reporters that he did indeed tell his players to target Alex Ovechkin -- "Run, chase, hunt down, hit, whatever word you want to use that would be correct," he said -- in their game against the Caps on Sunday. "That's the name of the game," Hitchcock said. "Why, is that against the rules now?" Is it? Not exactly, but Ed Frankovic...
Hockey Plumber (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Look at Hockey Plumbers last post. Are we now the "Hockey Prophet"? Although he reads our blog everyday, this isn't an elaborate hoax put together by The Plumber and Ovi. (AP)—"The Washington Capitals say Alex Ovechkin(notes) is 'week-to-week' with an upper-body injury. The Capitals said Monday that the two-time league MVP suffered an 'upper-body strain' in Sunday’s overtime...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Alexander Ovechkin left the Washington Captials game yesterday midway through the second period with what is being called an 'upper body' injury, thought to be a shoulder injury. Ovechkin was involved in a scuffle with Columbus F Jason Chimera. After wards, Ovechkin seem to have gotten tangled up with skates on the ice and left [...]
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
From my vantage there were two lead storylines from Sunday's 5-4 defeat by Columbus. Storyline 1A trumps storyline 1B by a wide margin: How badly is he hurt? "Day to day" is the official company line, as is the proverbial "upper body injury"; no update on his health will be offered before Tuesday morning's skate. The all-world left wing may well have suffered his injury in a scrum...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
In the short term, R.J. Umberger ended a wild and entertaining 5-4 victory for the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday evening at Verizon Center by scoring in overtime on a pass from Rick Nash. Of more pressing concern for the Washington Capitals is their hurting superstar. Alex Ovechkin left the game with what appeared to be an arm/shoulder/chest injury in the second period. Ovechkin leveled Jason Chimera...
Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Alex Ovechkin suffered an upper body injury in the second period tonight and did not return. The winger said he's day-to-day. Asked what happened during the scrum, where it appeared he was originally injured, Ovechkin said: "It was just a moment of the game. Nothing happened. [Jason Chimera] hit me, I hit him. It was a little battle over there but nothing happen. I can't tell you how I got hurt....
Capitals Insider (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Alex Ovechkin left today's game at 6:10 of the second period with what could be an pectoral/shoulder/left arm injury. The two-time MVP appeared to be injured earlier in the during a scrum near the Columbus bench that began when Jason Chimera bumped Ovechkin as the two passed one another. Ovechkin responded with a two-handed shove, setting off a fracas that included Jared Boll coming over and grabbing...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SECOND PERIOD 20:00: We forgot to mention this but Brooks Orpik and Bill Guerin are your alternate captain tonight in place of Sergei Gonchar and Malkin. The Penguins will have 22 seconds of power play time left to start the period. Crosby, Guerin, Kunitz, Goligoski and Letang are on for the power play. 19:37: Dorsett's second penalty is killed. The Penguins didn't generate much of a threat with that...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The Kings defenseman is fined an undisclosed amount for the hit on the Blue Jackets' Jason Chimera. He was not penalized by in-game officials. Kings defenseman Rob Scuderi was fined an undisclosed amount by the NHL on Monday for his low hit on Columbus' Jason Chimera on Sunday at Staples Center.
The FanHouse - New York Knicks (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
by Bruce Ciskie Filed under: Blue Jackets , Kings , Western , NHL Videos , NHL Discipline As talk of NHL discipline heats up early in the season , the Columbus Blue Jackets would like a little bit of love from the league office. During a 6-2 pasting at the hands of Los Angeles Sunday night, Columbus forward Jason Chimera carried the puck across the Kings ' blue line, and was met promptly by a low...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
via Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News, Stars GM Joe Nieuwendyk just confirmed that Steve Ott will have a phone hearing with the NHL on his hip check on Blues defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo Saturday. Nieuwendyk said he has no feeling on whether Ott could receive a suspension, just that the league said a lot of incidents had happened over the weekend and they are being proactive on them. Also, Mr. Campbell...
Off Wing Opinion (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I was reading Greg Wyshynski's account of Rob Scuderi's hit on Jason Chimera over at Puck Daddy late last night when it occurred to me that nobody had mentioned the penalty that could have been called: clipping. Here's the reference straight out of the NHL rulebook. Should they have thrown ...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Do Scuderi go too low to make the hit is my question? No penalty on the play except for Derek Dorsett leavingt the bench and gettting a game misconduct along with Chimera who was yapping with the Kings bench.
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
from Tom Reed of Puck-rakers at the Columbus Dispatch, The Blue Jackets top four defensemen are all sidelined with nagging strains to the groin or hip flexors and management wants to determine if that’s more than coincidence. Add Rusty Klesla (hip flexor), Mike Commodore (groin) and Marc Methot (hip flexor) to a growin list that already includes Fedor Tyutin (hip flexor) and forward R.J. Umberger...
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