Puck Podcast

Brian Campbell of the San Jose Sharks, Jeff Halpern of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres, Mathieu Schneider of the Anaheim Ducks and Jason Spezza of the Ottawa Senators have been selected as the NHLPA’s new representatives on the competition committee.

MONTREAL – Guy Carbonneau plans to wear his lucky tie behind the Montreal Canadiens bench for Game 7 of their playoff series against the Boston Bruins.

TORONTO – Martin Brodeur is eyeing his fourth career Vezina Trophy and while he doesn’t have Roberto Luongo to worry about this year, Evgeni Nabokov is a serious threat.

NEW YORK – The NHL is out with its three finalists for the Vezina Trophy.
New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov are up for the top goaltender award.

NEW YORK – The NHL is out with its three finalists for the Vezina Trophy.New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur, Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and San Jose’s Evgeni Nabokov are up for the top goaltender award.

DALLAS – The Dallas Stars are taking their chase of the Stanley Cup into the second round of the playoffs – and the reigning champs aren’t.Stephane Robidas, playing with a cage covering his broken nose, scored the tying goal on the power play early in the third period then set up Stu Barnes for the go-ahead goal 52 seconds later, sending the Stars past the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 Sunday night to end their first-round series in six games.

CALGARY – The Calgary Flames staved off elimination from the NHL playoffs with a 2-0 win over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday.Game 7 of the Western Conference quarter-final series is Tuesday in San Jose.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nicklas Lidstrom and Jiri Hudler each scored, and the Detroit Red Wings closed out their opening series by beating the Nashville Predators 3-0 in Game 6 on Sunday.

DENVER – Sometimes the best moves are the ones that aren’t made.The Colorado Avalanche could’ve severed ties with goalie Jose Theodore last off-season by buying him out of the final year of his contract.

DENVER – Sometimes the best moves are the ones that aren’t made.The Colorado Avalanche could’ve severed ties with goalie Jose Theodore last off-season by buying him out of the final year of his contract.

VOORHEES, N.J. – Alex Ovechkin has at least one more game to play up to his “Alexander the Great” nickname.The Philadelphia Flyers don’t want to give the Capitals star forward any more chances to rediscover his scoring touch.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nashville captain Jason Arnott was diagnosed with a concussion and will miss his second straight playoff game Sunday.The Predators enter the game trailing the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in the series.

VANCOUVER – There’s no word for hockey puck in Mandarin.So Jason Wang, who’s been calling the Montreal-Boston series of the NHL playoffs in his native Chinese language for the CBC – a first for the public broadcaster – just uses the Mandarin word for ball.

DENVER – The Minnesota Wild kept on insisting all they had to do to take the series back home was clone their effort and energy from Game 5, because, really, there was absolutely no way Jose Theodore could duplicate his fantastic performance in the net.

DENVER – Jose Theodore and the Colorado Avalanche withstood another onslaught from the relentless Minnesota Wild for a series-clinching 2-1 win Saturday night.

DENVER – Minnesota defenceman Nick Schultz returned to the Wild’s lineup Saturday night for Game 6 at Colorado, less than two weeks after undergoing an emergency appendectomy.

BOSTON – Marco Sturm scored the winner with only 2:37 left in regulation to cap a wild third period, and the Boston Bruins handed the Montreal Canadiens a 5-4 loss Saturday to force a Game 7 in their first-round playoff series.

CALGARY – Peering outside at the blizzard conditions Saturday morning, the Calgary Flames must have thought it was December again.”Feels like Christmas, doesn’t it?” quipped Flames left-winger Alex Tanguay after practice Saturday as he prepared to head out into the cold wind chills and 10-15 centimetres of snow that had recently fallen.

BOSTON – Saku Koivu will be back in the Montreal Canadiens lineup for Game 6 of their series against the Boston Bruins.The captain has missed more than three weeks with a fractured bone in his left foot but said he felt good enough after Saturday’s morning skate to play later in the evening.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Nashville Predators say their difficult season has made them stronger. They now have what might be their final chance to prove that’s true.