Month: March 2009

BOSTON – Bruins coach Claude Julien made it clear that he wanted young forward Phil Kessel to play hard every game.Kessel, benched by Julien during last year’s playoff series against Montreal and a subject of trade rumours at this season’s deadline, scored his 30th goal of the season in Boston’s 2-1 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday

PHILADELPHIA – Given a chance to grab a firm hold of the starting job, Martin Biron has assured there won’t be any goalie controversy in Philadelphia

NEWARK, N.J. – Hockey purists can debate what style Martin Brodeur employs.Is he the last of the standup goaltenders, a practitioner of the half butterfly, an athletic hybrid or simply a “fabulous freak” as one former netminder put it?It doesn’t matter on the ice

Movements in the world of hockey Friday:National Hockey LeagueNHL-Suspended Colorado F Cody McCormick for two games for a high sticking incident in a March 12 game against Minnesota

Kings 2 at Canucks 4 First Period1. Vancouver, Burrows 21 (Pyatt, Mitchell) 10:392. Vancouver, Sundin 8 (Bieksa, H.Sedin) 17:58 (pp)Penalties – Westgarth LA (high-sticking) 7:49, Kopitar LA (holding) 13:36, Bernier Vcr (elbowing) 14:50, Harrold LA (hooking) 16:53, Doughty LA (hooking) 17:14, Bernier Vcr (tripping) 19:56

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Henrik Sedin’s 100th NHL career goal could not have come at a better time Friday night – and his 101st was pretty timely, too

CHICAGO – Antoine Vermette is fitting in perfectly with the Blue Jackets.Vermette scored two goals to help Columbus beat Chicago 5-3 on Friday night for its fourth straight victory since he joined the team in a trade with Ottawa

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Glen Sather, the president and general manager of the New York Rangers, posted US$1 million bail for Peter Pocklington in a California courtroom Friday

ATLANTA – Thrashers captain Ilya Kovalchuk will not play Saturday at Buffalo after aggravating an upper-body injury during an overtime victory against Edmonton

EDMONTON – It took almost 800 NHL games and an incident that could have cost him the vision in his right eye to convince Edmonton Oilers captain Ethan Moreau to put the visor he took off 14 years ago back on

TORONTO – Colorado Avalanche forward Cody McCormick was suspended for two games by the National Hockey League on Friday for a high-sticking incident during a game against Minnesota

VANCOUVER, B.C. – Hockey fans heading to Friday night’s NHL contest between the Vancouver Canucks and Los Angeles Kings at General Motors Place will have to stickhandle around a picket line

For the first time in five years, 51-year-old former New York Rangers great Ron Duguay, is set to strap on the skates professionally, signing a two day contract with the Eastern Professional League

Senators 3 at Bruins 5First Period1. Boston, Ward 3 (Bergeron, Chara) 3:17 (sh)2. Boston, Axelsson 6 (Krejci) 6:523. Boston, Kobasew 17 (Ryder, Savard) 10:24 (pp)4

AHL No Games Scheduled.ECHL No Games Scheduled.IHL No Games Scheduled.Central Odessa 7 Corpus Christi 5QMJHL No Games Scheduled.OHL Barrie 2 Niagara 0Peterborough 5 Kingston 3Saginaw 6 Owen Sound 3Windsor 5 Plymouth 1WHL No Games Scheduled

EDMONTON – Marty Reasoner came back to haunt his old club with a breakaway goal 4:10 into overtime as the Atlanta Thrashers won their fourth game in a row, defeating the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Thursday night

DENVER – Milan Hejduk and Wojtek Wolski scored shootout goals, and Peter Budaj stopped both of Minnesota’s attempts in the tiebreaker in the Colorado Avalanche’s 2-1 victory over the Wild on Thursday night

TORONTO – At a time when the merits of fighting in hockey are under scrutiny, Ben Ondrus made his position crystal clear.During the last minute of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay on Thursday night, Ondrus was involved in an incident with the Lightning’s Evgeny Artyukhin

ST. LOUIS – If the St. Louis Blues find their way into the playoffs, goalie Chris Mason says they should be plenty tested.”We’ve been doing this for two months trying to get back in it