Puck Podcast

EDMONTON – Sheldon Souray scored the game-winner with just 2:15 to play giving the Edmonton Oilers a 3-2 pre-season victory over New York Wednesday night and spoiling John Tavares’s debut with the Islanders

DALLAS – Brad Richards converted in the third round of the shootout after scoring a goal in regulation to lift the Dallas Stars to a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night in the pre-season opener for both teams

Movements in the world of hockey Wednesday:National Hockey LeagueATLANTA THRASHERS-Assigned F Michael Forney, F Tomas Pospisil, F Matt Siddall and D Scott Lehman to Chicago (AHL)

NEWARK, N.J. – New Devils coach Jacques Lemaire smiled and shrugged when asked why Brendan Shanahan sported the captain’s ‘C’ in the absence of Jamie Langenbrunner

DETROIT – The Detroit Red Wings and the Philadelphia Flyers were rusty in the pre-season opener for both teams. The Red Wings fans, though, seem to be in mid-season form

OTTAWA – Even though pre-season records don’t mean that much, the Ottawa Senators were clearly frustrated after dropping their second straight to Florida

TORONTO – These certainly look like Brian Burke’s Toronto Maple Leafs.As the puck dropped on another pre-season, there were fists and bodies flying all over the Air Canada Centre ice – examples of the “truculence” the team’s general manager is so fond of

MONTREAL – The NHL job offers never materialized for Guy Carbonneau this off-season, so the former Habs coach figured he’d spruce up his hockey resume

TORONTO – Forget Bourne and Kraatz, Sale and Pelletier, Underhill and Martini. The new ice dance pairs to watch are Bourne and Lemieux, Sale and Simpson, Underhill and Duguay

PITTSBURGH – Marc-Andre Fleury spent the summer of 2008 being constantly reminded about the save he didn’t make.With the Pittsburgh Penguins desperate to win Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final against Detroit and force a Game 7, Fleury deflected a Henrik Zetterberg shot 7 1/2 minutes into the third period

GLENDALE, Ariz. – With only a couple thousand on hand, if that, the Phoenix Coyotes began an uncertain pre-season with a 4-2 split-squad win over the Los Angeles Kings

CALGARY – It’s early in the pre-season but new Edmonton linemates Patrick O’Sullivan and Mike Comrie are already looking comfortable as linemates

Movements in the world of hockey Tuesday:National Hockey LeagueCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS-Signed C Antoine Vermette to a five-year contract extension through the 2014-15 season

ST. LOUIS – Paul Kariya scored in his first game action in almost a year to help the St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 victory Tuesday night over the Minnesota Wild in the pre-season opener for both teams

PITTSBURGH – Chris Kunitz scored his second goal of the game 44 seconds into overtime to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 pre-season win over the Columbus Blue Jackets in the Penguins’ first game since winning the Stanley Cup in June

HALIFAX, N.S. – The Senators finally got their first look at new goaltender Pascal Leclaire.Leclaire stopped 14 of 16 shots Tuesday as Ottawa fell 3-1 to the Florida Panthers in both teams’ NHL pre-season opener in Halifax

NEW YORK – With the help of the New York Rangers, Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask is building quite a resume in his quest to be the backup to Vezina Trophy-winner Tim Thomas

BOSTON – Fred Cusick, the radio and television voice of the Boston Bruins for more than four decades, died Tuesday, his family said. He was 90

EDMONTON – With several diminutive forwards expected in their lineup this season, the Edmonton Oilers will also need some muscle in the mix.That’s where bangers like Zack Stortini, J

ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis Blues exercised their option to keep coach Andy Murray through the 2010-11 season.Murray led St. Louis to a 41-31-10 record last season, including a 25-9-7 second-half surge that put the Blues in the playoffs for the first time since 2004