Hello, old friend!
Panthers and Sharks and BearCat Things, oh my!
Four games on tap tonight:
Philadelphia Flyers at Washington Capitals
Projected lines – Washington:
Ovechkin-Backstrom-Oshie
Burakovsky-Kuznetsov-Williams
Chimera-Richards-Johansson
Winnki-Beagle-Wilson
Orpik-Carlson
Alzner-Hiskanen
Orlov-Schmidt
Holtby
Projected Lines: Philadelphia
Voracek-Giroux-Simmonds
Raffl-Couturier-Schenn
Read-Cousins-Gagner
Vandevelde-Bellemare-White
Shultz-Streit
MacDonald-Gotisbehere
Manning-Gudas
Mason (Neuvirth)
New York Islanders at Florida Panthers
Projected Lines: New York Islanders
Nielsen-Tavares-Okposo
Kulemin-Nelson-Bailey
Prince-Quine-Strome
Martin-Cizikas-Clutterbuck
Leddy-Boychuk
de Haan-Hamonic
Hickey-Pulock
Greiss (Berube)
Projected Lines: Florida Panthers
Huberdeau-Barkov-Jagr
Jikinen-Bjugstad-Smith
Hudler-Grimaldi-Purcell
Wilson-MacKenzie-Thornton
Campbell-Ekblad
Kulikov-Gudbranson
Kindl-Petrovic
Luongo (Montoya)
Minnesota Wild at Dallas Stars
Projected Lines: Minnesota Wild
Zucker-Koivu-Coyle
Niederreiter-Granlund-Pominville
Porter-Dalpe-Jones
Carter-Stoll-Fontaine
Suter-Spurgeon
Scandella-Brodin
Prosser-Dumba
Dubnyk (Kuemper)
Projected Lines: Dallas Stars
Benn-Eakin-Sharp
Nichushkin-Spezza-Eaves
Roussel-Faksa-Hemsky
Janmark-Fiddler-Scevious
Goligoski-Klingberg
Oduya-Johns
Russell-Demers
Lehtonen or Niemi
San Jose Sharks at Los Angeles Kings
Projected Lines: Los Angeles Kings
Lucic-Kopitar-Pearson
Brown-Carter-Toffoli
King-Lecavalier-Versteeg
Clifford-Andreoff-Lewis
McNabb-Doughty
Muzzin-Schenn
Scuderi-Martinez
Quick (Enroth)
Projected Lines: San Jose Sharks
Hertl-Thornton-Pavelski
Donskoi-Coture-Ward
Karlsson-Marleau-Nieto
Spaling-Tierney-Wingels
Martin-Burns
Vlasic-Braun
Dillon-Polak
Jones (Reimer)
I’m excited for the Kings-Sharks game, which I personally will be covering on our Twitter feed, and this should be a really good night for hockey coming up. (Though can anyone match the craziness that was the Bolts-Wings game yesterday? I guess we’ll just have to watch and find out ourselves.)
I guess Jagr only scores with the 18 year olds. Go Isles!!!
Man, if you think Rask had an off year – Lehtonen looks really unsteady in goal tonight. Good thing he’s only gotten ~3 SOG to stop.
I can’t see the Stars winning with Lehtonen
I totally regret my Playoff Bracket entry now
Already?!
Isles just tied it! Fair disclosure, I like both teams!
I like ’em both. I can’t stand Smith, though so am now rooting for Isles. Smith, of course has two goals.
Just think, Panthers fans – you could have still had Brett Connolly! What were you thinking?
He was with the Bolts before Boston, actually.
WHY DID THEY LET HIM GO?
They will regret that one.
Cats-Isles is sooooo much fun
John Tavares just undressed the entire state of Florida.
The Nelson breakaway earlier was equally beautiful
Right fun game going on down there in Sunrise. 2-1 Cats right now
The action is heating up a little in D.C. 1-0 Caps
Dinner time.. I’ll check in later.
Why has Jussi Jokinen had such a tough time staying anywhere. He’s a poor man’s Esa Tikkanen. Proven playoff scorer. You can’t put a price on those guys (justin williams)