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Team |
Our Take |
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1 |
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The Capitals just keep on rolling, even though Alex Ovechkin hasn’t scored in six games. |
| 2 |
2 |
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The Blackhawks have the best goals-against in the NHL, yet all we hear about is how shaky their goaltending is. |
| 3 |
3 |
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A couple of one-goal wins over Columbus and Montreal have the Sharks swimming in the right direction again. |
| 4 |
7 |
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Sidney Crosby takes over the NHL’s goal lead as the Penguins win four straight. |
| 5 |
5 |
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Wojtek Wolski scores in each of his first two games with the Coyotes, including one game-winner. |
| 6 |
4 |
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Anze Kopitar has three goals in his past four games, but was minus-2 in each of his team’s back-to-back losses. |
| 7 |
9 |
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Peter Mueller has four points in three games since joining the Avs. |
| 8 |
8 |
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The Canucks were blown out by Chicago 6-3 in their last meeting of the regular season, but bounced back with a win over Nashville. |
| 9 |
6 |
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Alex Kovalev was one of the NHL’s hottest players leading up to the break, but has no points and is minus-6 in three games since resuming play. |
| 10 |
11 |
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Patrick Kaleta scores a beauty in overtime to give the Sabres a 2-1 win over the Rangers Sunday. |
| 11 |
10 |
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If the Devils aren’t concerned about goalie Martin Brodeur’s play, they should be. |
| 12 |
15 |
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Pavel Datsyk is finding his game for the suddenly healthy and streaking red Wings. |
| 13 |
13 |
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Jarome Iginla registers his 10th career hat trick in a big road win over the Wild. |
| 14 |
16 |
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Michael Leighton, the goaltender of choice in Philadelphia, is 14-3-1. |
| 15 |
14 |
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The Preds have dropped two straight and are now without stud defenceman Shae Weber. |
| 16 |
18 |
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Paul Kariya had six points in three games before being skunked by Colorado. |
| 17 |
17 |
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The big question now is, can Lubomir Visnovsky and Aaron Ward make up for the loss of Chris Pronger and Francois Beahuchemin? |
| 18 |
12 |
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Kari Lehtonen lays an egg in his first start for the slumping Stars. |
| 19 |
20 |
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The Habs show great comeback power beating the Ducks 4-3 after falling behind 3-0 in the first period. |
| 20 |
22 |
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Just when it looked like the Bruins had turned a corner, Marc Savard gets KO’ed by a Matt Cooke shot to the head. |
| 21 |
25 |
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The Canes are in real danger of taking themselves out of a lottery pick position for the draft. |
| 22 |
19 |
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The Lightning can score with the best of teams, but have allowed 24 more goals than they have scored. |
| 23 |
24 |
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The Thrashers have actually been pretty good without Ilya Kovalchuk. |
| 24 |
23 |
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A third straight loss has the Rangers’ playoff hopes fading quickly. |
| 25 |
21 |
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The Wild appeared to have turned their season around, but with back-to-back losses the playoffs appear to be out of the question. |
| 26 |
27 |
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The Panthers failed to do anything of significance at the trade deadline. |
| 27 |
26 |
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In what has become a wasted season, Rick Nash has no points in two games since the break and the Blue Jackets have dropped four in a row. |
| 28 |
28 |
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John Tavares hasn’t scored in 17 games and has just one goal in his past 27. |
| 29 |
29 |
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Dion Phaneuf has two assists in nine games with the Leafs, hardly earth-shattering numbers. |
| 30 |
30 |
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Gilbert Brule is making his statement for next season with five points in five games. |
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