CrashingTheGoalie

Mattias Ohlund: The defenseman, with zero goals and 10 assists, is the first to say he needs to contribute more offensively. But Ohlund is a calming influence on the blue line, and he was an early season anchor and mentor for rookie Victor Hedman. Ohlund is minus-3, but his team-high 23:57 of average ice time was [...]

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by Kris Gray
What in the world is veteran NHL goalie Dan Cloutier doing in Rockford, IL you ask?

The 33 yr old family man took a few minutes to answer few questions after practice on Tuesday. Cloutier recently signed a professional tryout with the AHL Rockford IceHogs. Cloutier has not played professionally in the past 18 [...]

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After an absence of nearly three years, Dave Scatchard hasn’t just returned to the NHL. In many ways, the Nashville Predators’ center has been to hell and back.
On Jan. 27, 2007, Scatchard was playing his 651st game in the bigs, with his fourth NHL squad, the Phoenix Coyotes, when his life took a sudden, fateful turn.
The [...]

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For Mattias fans, here’s a good blogsite:

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Wendell Young was Vancouver’s 4th round pick – 73rd overall – in 1981.
He wore a nucks’ uniform for 22 games in 1985-86, and 8 games in 1986-87.

But mostly, Young played in Fredericton before joing the Philadelphia organization.
He was the Chicago Wolves’ goalie from 1994-95 until 2000-01, and is now the team’s GM.

“Wendell has been involved [...]

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First it was Peter Forsberg and then Daniel Sedin. Now Mattias Ohlund has injured his foot.

“Mattias Ohlund was scratched with a right foot injury he said was sustained during Saturday’s game with the Kings when his skate “got caught in the ice.”
Ohlund, who tried but could not participate in the morning skate and is wearing [...]

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Jeff Cowan has moved east from Peoria, Illinois to Portland, Maine. And he’s in the Buffalo Sabres system, rather than the Canucks/Blues.
This season he’s both scoring and fighting. As of today, he’s had five fighting majors: against Kip Brennan, Wade Brookbank, Nicolas Blanchard, Kirk MacDonald and Vladimir Mihalik.

Also, he’s scored five goals, along with 2 [...]

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by Ron Spence
It was Phil Kessel’s first game back and it was late in the first period when the new Leaf thought that he would wheel the puck up the ice.
“I don’t remember (ever) getting hit like that,” Kessel said. “I put myself in a bad situation to tell you the truth, I shouldn’t have [...]

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“Brad May spent this past summer wondering if he’d ever get a 1,002nd chance,” wrote Bruce MacLeod of the Macomb Daily.
“The veteran of 1,001 regular-season NHL games was without a team, without a training camp, without a contract through July, August and most of September. On Wednesday, however, May was skating at Joe Louis Arena [...]

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by Corey Masisak

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