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| Blackhawks hope to bounce back against Canucks |
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12/17/2002 |
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| o not get any easier tonight, as the Northwest Division co-leading Vancouver Canucks skate into Chicago riding a three-game unbeaten streak. Sami Salo's power-play goal with 4:51 remaining in the third period lifted the Canucks to a 3-3 tie with the Calgary Flames on Sunday. Markus Naslund and Todd Bertuzzi also scored for Vancouver, which improved to 2-0-1 in its last three. Naslund has five goals in his last two games and leads the team with 21. Peter Skudra stopped 30 shots for the Canucks, who went 2-for- |
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| Preds, Flames tangle in Nashville |
NHL Hockey |
12/17/2002 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - The Nashville Predators hope to stretch their unbeaten streak to three games tonight when they welcome the Calgary Flames to the Gaylord Entertainment Center. Scott Walker scored twice for the second straight game and Tomas Vokoun stopped 18 shots to lift Nashville to a 3-1 win over Minnesota on Saturday. Adam Hall delivered a goal and David Legwand added two assists for the second straight contest for the Predators, who played the third installment of a five-game homestand a |
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| First-place Canucks host Calgary |
NHL Hockey |
12/15/2002 |
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| Vancouver, British Columbia (MySportsbook) - The first-place Vancouver Canucks seek their third straight win tonight when they welcome the Calgary Flames to GM Place. The Canucks moved into the top spot in the Northwest with Saturday's 6-3 win in Edmonton. Captain Markus Naslund notched his first career four-goal game in the triumph, and now leads the NHL with 20 tallies overall. Todd Bertuzzi and Daniel Sedin also scored, while Bertuzzi, Brendan Morrison, Mattias Ohlund and Ed Jovanovski added two assists |
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| Floundering Avs visit Flames; Sakic questionable |
NHL Hockey |
12/14/2002 |
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| Calgary, Alberta (MySportsbook) - The Colorado Avalanche try to end their recent woes tonight when they visit the Calgary Flames at the Saddledome. Colorado, which is shooting for its NHL-record ninth straight division title, is 1-3-2-1 in its last seven games and sits fourth in the Northwest standings -- nine behind first-place Minnesota. On Friday the Avs suffered their second straight defeat in the form of a 4-3 overtime loss to host Edmonton. Colorado squandered three separate leads during the course o |
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| Oilers hope to stay hot against Colorado |
NHL Hockey |
12/13/2002 |
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| r past a diving Dan Cloutier for the power-play tally. Colorado finished 1-for-8 on the power play and is just 4-for-32 in its last nine games. With the loss, the Avs' chances of a record-setting ninth straight division title slipped further away, as Colorado is 10 points behind the first- place Wild and just six ahead of the last-place Calgary Flames. Edmonton snapped a four-game series winless streak on November 30 and is 1-0-1 in the last two meetings. Colorado is 1-3-2 in its last six on the Oilers' ice. |
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| Avalanche Team Report: Sakic joins elite company |
NHL Hockey |
12/12/2002 |
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| to Vancouver over the first two periods. With the loss, the Avs' chances of a record-setting ninth straight division title slipped further away, as Colorado dropped nine points behind the first- place Canucks and are just six ahead of the last-place Calgary Flames. "We got off to a bad start and got some chances in the third period, but Cloutier made some good saves." Sakic, who leads the team with 17 goals and 32 points, added. "But we're struggling right now. We're not going to catch anybody [in the divisio |
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| Flames, Hurricanes meet at the Saddledome |
NHL Hockey |
12/12/2002 |
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| Calgary, Alberta (MySportsbook) - The Calgary Flames try to push their unbeaten streak to four tonight when they welcome the Carolina Hurricanes to the Saddledome in the start of a brief two-game homestand. Chris Clark and Mathias Johansson each tallied a power-play goal and an assist to lead Calgary past Vancouver, 2-1, on Monday. Roman Turek made 29 saves for the Flames, who remain unbeaten since Al MacNeil took over behind the bench for the fired Greg Gilbert (2-0-1). Calgary, which has scored two goals |
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| Super Mario returns to the Shark Tank |
NHL Hockey |
12/12/2002 |
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| , 32a) and a plus-20 rating in 13 career games against the Sharks, including a goal and two assists in a 4-1 victory at Mellon Arena on November 23. Lemieux's 3.62 points-per-game average against San Jose is the highest of any NHL club, ahead of the Calgary Flames (2.40) and Tampa Bay Lightning (2.29). San Jose also enters tonight's affair on a losing note, following Saturday's 4-2 setback against Nashville. The Sharks got goals from Teemu Selanne and Vincent Damphousse, but saw their brief two-game winning s |
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| Flames Team Report: GM douses rumors |
NHL Hockey |
12/11/2002 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Most people chuckled when they heard the rumors that the Calgary Flames were thinking about moving reigning Art Ross Trophy winner Jarome Iginla. Include Flames general manager Craig Button in that demographic. "Zero, zero truth to that," Button told the Calgary Sun. "I'll take it one step further. We have zero intention of trading Jarome Iginla." The rumor Button was asked to address surfaced on the Internet last week and was in turn touched on by several newspapers. It mentioned the poss |
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| Flames hope to push unbeaten string to three |
NHL Hockey |
12/09/2002 |
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| Vancouver, British Columbia (MySportsbook) - The Calgary Flames try to remain unbeaten in the post- Gilbert era tonight when they visit the Vancouver Canucks at GM Place. Calgary is 1-0-1 in its last two games since the firing of head coach Greg Gilbert, who was replaced on an interim basis by longtime member of the organization Al MacNeil. The short run comes on the heels of a 1-10-0-1 lull that led to Gilbert's dismissal. On Thursday the Flames skated to a 1-1 tie with Minnesota at the Saddledome, as goa |
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