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QUEBEC CITY, Canada (AFP) - Olympic gold medallist Henrik Lundqvist has agreed to join the Swedish national team for the remainder of the World Ice Hockey Championships.
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The star National Hockey League goaltender had to get clearance from the New York Rangers before he could play in the 2008 Worlds.
Swedish team manager Mats Naslund said Tuesday night that 26-year-old Lundqvist is on his way to the Worlds but his status for Wednesday's game against Switzerland is uncertain.
"The Rangers have cleared him and Lundqvist will arrive in Quebec City (Wednesday)," Naslund said.
He joins Swedish goalies Mikael Tellqvist and Stefan Liv but it is expected that Lundqvist will get the starting role.
Sweden beat Belarus 6-5 in their opener and then trounced France 9-0 on Monday.
This will mark Lundqvist's fourth World Championships. He led Sweden to Olympic gold in 2006 in Turin, Italy.
The Rangers were eliminated from the NHL post-season on the weekend after losing their quarter-final series four games to one to Pittsburgh.
Lundqvist will add some star power to Sweden's lineup, which is already missing many of its top players. Mats Naslund, Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin and Peter Forsberg are either injured or decided to skip the event.
Lundqvist, of Are, was named top netminder at the 2004 World Championship and has been nominated for the Vezina Trophy which is awarded each year to the NHL's top goalie.
Canadian Martin Brodeur (who is not at the Worlds) and Russian Evgeni Nabokov (who is joining Team Russia later in the week) are also in the running for this year's Vezina Trophy. |
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Ice Hockey: Malfatti抯 Titan-ic feat sinks Telford
May 7 2008 by Terry Phillips, South Wales Echo
PAUL Malfatti scored five goals in Cardiff Titans |
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2008 National Hockey League Playoffs
-- Conference Finals --
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1. Philadelphia 2-4 Pittsburgh
2. Philadelphia 2-4 Pittsburgh
3. Philadelphia 1-4 Pittsburgh
4. Philadelphia 4-2 Pittsburgh
5. Philadelphia 0-6 Pittsburgh
Penguins win series 4-1 
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2008 National Hockey League Playoffs
-- Conference Finals --
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1. Dallas 1-4 Detroit
2. Dallas 1-2 Detroit
3. Dallas 2-5 Detroit
4. Dallas 3-1 Detroit
5. Dallas 2-1 Detroit
6. Dallas 1-4 Detroit
Red Wings win series 4-2
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East Beasts
By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer
3:00 PM ET, May 18, 2008
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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PITTSBURGH (AP)桼yan Malone, the one Penguins player with firsthand memories of the team抯 two previous Stanley Cup appearances, scored twice and set up a third goal and Pittsburgh routed rival Philadelphia 6-0 Sunday to win the Eastern Conference championship and a trip to the NHL finals.
The Penguins, dominating Game 5 from the start with Malone and Evgeni Malkin scoring in the first 10 minutes, will play the winner of the Detroit-Dallas series for the Stanley Cup. The Red Wings take a 3-2 series lead into Dallas for Game 6 of the Western Conference finals Monday night.
Marian Hossa had a goal and three assists and Sidney Crosby, the 20-year-old captain of a team that was the Eastern Conference抯 worst only two seasons ago, added two assists. Jordan Staal, only 19, scored his third goal in two games and fourth of the series. Pascal Dupuis, an Atlanta teammate of Hossa抯 before the two were dealt to Pittsburgh at the trading deadline, also scored.
Pittsburgh, one of the youngest teams to play for a championship in any major pro sport, is returning to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 1992, when Mario Lemieux條ong before he bought the team條ed them to their second title in as many seasons. Malone was the only current Penguins player who was there, along for the ride as the 12-year-old son of then-Penguins scouting director and former player Greg Malone.
By the time Dupuis scored about 4 minutes into the third period, the Penguins were conjuring up memories of their first Cup run in 1991, when they beat Minnesota 8-0 in Game 6 of the finals to secure their first Stanley Cup.
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Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen (44), of Finland, defends against Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jordan Staal (11) in the second period during Game 5 of the NHL Eastern Conference hockey finals in Pittsburgh, Sunday, May 18, 2008.
(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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For the overachieving Flyers, it was a disappointingly bad finish to an unexpectedly good season. Last in the NHL overall standings last season, they made a series of productive offseason moves to rebuild in a hurry and not only made the playoffs, but upset third-seeded Washington and top-seeded Montreal before losing in the first all-Pennsylvania conference finals.
The Flyers fell behind in the series 3-0, just as Ottawa and the New York Rangers did in Pittsburgh抯 previous two series梩he Penguins needed only 14 games to reach the Cup finals. They are 12-2 in the postseason and 8-0 in 47-year-old Mellon Arena, the NHL抯 oldest arena but one that will host at least one more finals before the Penguins move into a new arena across the street in about two years.
The Penguins have won their last 16 at home dating to the regular season, not losing there since a shootout loss to San Jose on Feb. 24.
They play in an old barn of a building, but the Penguins are a breathtakingly young team in which four key players桽taal (19), Crosby (20), Malkin (21) and goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (23)梐re 23 or younger. In any other major pro sport, most or all would likely still be in college or the minors due to their age.
Pittsburgh Penguins fans hold up a Philadelphia Flyers t-shirt inscribed with names of Penguins players in the first period during Game 5 of the NHL Eastern Conference hockey finals between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers in Pittsburgh, Sunday, May 18, 2008.
(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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Fleury, like Crosby a former No. 1 draft pick, made 21 saves in yet another impressive performance and is 22-4-1 since late November.
The Penguins are winning with a commitment to defense that often was lacking with a franchise that has long had a preference for goal scorers such as Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr rather than goal stoppers. They抮e also winning with a coach, Michel Therrien, who was hired by previous management and, despite overseeing the fourth-best single-season turnaround in NHL history only last season, was given only a one-year contract extension.
Philadelphia welcomed back All-Star defenseman Kimmo Timonen, who missed the first four games of the series with a blood clot on his left ankle, but even he couldn抰 make a difference as the Penguins put this one away early. They led 3-0 before the midpoint of the second period as Hossa scored his ninth of the postseason. By then, the sellout crowd of 17,132 was alternating its familiar 揕et抯 Go Pens |
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Wings are in
By JAIME ARON
AP Sports Writer
8:00 PM ET, May 19, 2008
American Airlines Center
Dallas, Texas
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DALLAS (AP)桪ominant in the regular season, superb again in the postseason, the Detroit Red Wings are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals.
With gusto, too.
Just when the Red Wings lost consecutive games and were starting to look vulnerable, they bounced back strong in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, getting first-period goals from Kris Draper, Pavel Datsyuk and Dallas Drake on their way to knocking out the Dallas Stars 4-1 on Monday night.
Now Detroit goes from worrying about becoming the third team to blow a 3-0 series lead to trying to win its fourth championship in 11 seasons. The Red Wings will face the Pittsburgh Penguins, with the first two games at Joe Louis Arena.
The series opens Saturday, with the schedule following a Saturday-Monday-Wednesday pattern.
Detroit will be the home team because it had more regular-season points
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2008 National Hockey League Playoffs
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1. Pittsburgh 0-4 Detroit
2. Pittsburgh 0-3 Detroit
3. Pittsburgh 3-2 Detroit
4. Pittsburgh 1-2 Detroit
5. Pittsburgh 4-3 3OT Detroit
6. Pittsburgh 2-3 Detroit
Red Wings win series 4-2
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saya minat pittsburgh dan detroit. |
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Hockey Town's 11th Stanley Cup Title
By IRA PODELL
AP Hockey Writer
8:00 PM ET, June 4, 2008
Mellon Arena
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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PITTSBURGH (AP)桯ockeytown is home to the Stanley Cup梐gain.
Using a little Motown magic on the road, the Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup for the fourth time in 11 seasons Wednesday night with a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the finals.
The celebration came two nights later than expected. The Penguins forced the series back to Pennsylvania by tying Game 5 with 34.3 seconds left in regulation and winning it shortly before 1 a.m. in Detroit on Petr Sykora抯 power-play goal in triple overtime.
Undeterred, the Red Wings wrapped up their fourth straight series on the road in these playoffs. Detroit is third in NHL history with 11 Stanley Cup titles, trailing fellow Original Six clubs Montreal and Toronto.
Just like in Game 5, things got a little dicey for the Red Wings, who allowed Marian Hossa抯 power-play goal with 1:27 remaining that got the Penguins to 3-2. Pittsburgh had already pulled Game 5 hero Marc-Andre Fleury to create a 6-on-4 skating edge.
With the final seconds ticking down, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby put a backhander on goal that Hossa just missed with a tip at the right post.
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Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom, of Sweden, hoists the Stanley Cup after beating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 6 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey finals, Wednesday, June 4, 2008 in Pittsburgh.
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set off a pile-on celebration behind the Detroit net for the Red Wings, as the disappointed fans in Mellon Arena saluted their club once more with a chant of 揕et抯 Go Pens! |
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2008 NHL Draft
First Round - Top 15 Picks |
Steven Stamkos - Center; Markham, Ontario, Canada.
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Drew Doughty - Defenseman; London, Ontario, Canada.
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Zach Bogosian - Defenseman; Massena, New York, USA.
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Alex Pietrangelo - Defenseman; King City, Ontario, Canada.
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5. Toronto Maple Leafs (from New York Islanders) |
Luke Schenn - Defenseman; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Nikita Filatov - Left Wing; Moscow, Russia.
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7. Nashville Predators (from New York Islanders via Toronto Maple Leafs) |
Colin Wilson - Center; Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.
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Mikkel Boedker - Left Wing; Brondby, Denmark.
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9. New York Islanders (from Nashville Predators via Florida Panthers) |
Josh Bailey - Center; Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Cody Hodgson - Center; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Kyle Beach - Center; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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12. Buffalo Sabres (from Los Angeles Kings via Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers) |
Tyler Myers - Defenseman; Houston, Texas, USA.
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13. Los Angeles Kings (from Buffalo Sabres) |
Colten Tuebert - Defenseman; White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
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Zach Boychuk - Center; Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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15. Ottawa Senators (from Nashville Predators) |
Erik Karlsson - Defenseman; Landsbro, Sweden.
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2008 NHL Draft
First Round - Last 15 Picks |
Joe Colborne - Left Wing; Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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17. Anaheim Ducks (from Los Angeles Kings via Calgary Flames) |
Jake Gardiner - Defenseman; Deephaven, Minnesota, USA.
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18. Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators) |
Chet Pickard - Goaltender; Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
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19. Philadelphia Flyers (from Columbus Blue Jackets via Colorado Avalanche) |
Luca Sbisa - Defenseman; Oberageri, Switzerland.
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Michael Del Zotto - Defenseman; Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
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21. Washington Capitals (from New Jersey Devils) |
Anton Gustafsson - Center; Karlskoga, Sweden.
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22. Edmonton Oilers (from Anaheim Ducks) |
Jordan Eberle - Center; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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23. Minnesota Wilds (from New Jersey Devils via Washington Capitals) |
Tyler Cuma - Defenseman; Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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24. New Jersey Devils (from Minnesota Wilds) |
Mattias Tedenby - Left Wing; Vetlanda, Sweden.
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25. Calgary Flames (from Montreal Canadiens) |
Greg Nemisz - Center; Courtice, Ontario, Canada.
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26. Buffalo Sabres (from San Jose Sharks) |
Tyler Ennis - Center; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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27. Washington Capitals (from Philadelphia Flyers) |
John Carlson - Defenseman; Natick, Massachusett, USA.
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28. Phoenix Coyotes (from Anaheim Ducks via Los Angeles Kings and Dallas Stars) |
Viktor Tikhonov - Wing; Moscow, Russia.
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29. Atlanta Thrashers (from Pittsburgh Penguins) |
Daultan Leveille - Center; St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
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Thomas McCollum - Goaltender; Amherst, New York, USA.
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finally, the season is here. can't wait to watch the sharks with its new coach. hopefully they get past second round and to the final this season. tomorrow, ducks at sharks... hopefully the sharks will eat the ducks.
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Reply #118 oobi's post
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ko ni asib copy n paste je |
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good start for the sharks - they ate the ducks and bit the kings. 82 shots on goal... very good but they need to get the pucks in the net. they need to work on their power play... 2/13 in the first two games, not good. they also need to show more killer instinct.
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