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| Blue Jackets' Peca gets five-game suspension |
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10/17/2008 |
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| al and a review of the incident by commissioner Gary Bettman. The 34-year-old Peca was assessed a 10-minute misconduct penalty for his verbal abuse of an official, and a game misconduct for the physical abuse of the official during a 2-1 loss to the Dallas Stars on October 10. Any incident of that nature calls for automatic suspensions of either three, 10 or 20 games, based on three categories of offenses. Peca's offense initially was assessed as a Category II, which would have gotten him an automatic 10-ga |
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| Blues rip Stars |
NHL Hockey |
10/16/2008 |
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| St. Louis, MO (MySportsbook) - Brad Boyes recorded a goal and an assist and Manny Legace made 29 saves to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 6-1 thrashing of the Dallas Stars at Scottrade Center. Eric Brewer, Keith Tkachuk, Yan Stastny, Steve Wagner and Jay McKee each tallied for St. Louis, which has won three of four to start the season and scored at least five goals in each of the three wins. The scoring output is a change from last season's Blues team that tallied just 2.5 goals per game. Legace was especi |
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| Star in the making: Brunnstrom leads Dallas into St. Louis |
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10/16/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - In his NHL debut, Fabian Brunnstrom lived up to the hype. The highly-touted Swede will lead his new team into St. Louis, where the Dallas Stars square off with the Blues tonight at Scottrade Center. The 23-year-old Brunnstrom joined the Stars this offseason after three accomplished seasons in the Swedish Elite League. Dallas, which won a bidding war for his services, is glad he did, as Brunnstrom notched a hat trick in his first game, a 6-4 victory over Nashville on Wednesday that gave t |
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| Ducks square off against Bryzgalov, Coyotes |
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10/12/2008 |
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| er setback tonight in its home opener against the Phoenix Coyotes at the Honda Center. The Ducks posted 102 points last year, but that was only good enough for second behind the San Jose Sharks. Anaheim was then ousted by another division rival, the Dallas Stars, in the first round of the playoffs. The club began its season on Thursday in San Jose, but was handed a 4-1 setback. Rob Niedermayer scored the lone goal for Anaheim, which looked lethargic next to an energized Sharks attack. Niedermayer and Teemu |
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| Arnott leads Nashville over Dallas |
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10/12/2008 |
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| Nashville, TN (MySportsbook) - Jason Arnott recorded two power-play goals and added an assist, while Dan Ellis picked up his first win in a Predators sweater in Nashville's 3-1 decision over the Dallas Stars in its home opener. Ellis, who played one game with Dallas in 2003-04, stopped 19-of-20 shots to pick up the victory for Nashville, which bounced back after dropping a 5-2 decision to St. Louis in its season-opener. "We talked about finding our energy," Nashville head coach Barry Trotz said. "I talke |
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| Stars travel to Nashville to take on Preds |
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10/11/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - Two teams still in search of their first wins of the season collide tonight, as the Dallas Stars visit the Nashville Predators and the Sommet Center. Dallas began its season at home on Friday, and after erasing a two-goal deficit in the third period, fell in defeat, 5-4, in overtime to Columbus. Brad Richards and Trevor Daley each scored in the third to force extra time, but goaltender Marty Turco couldn't handle Rick Nash's wrister from between the circles with 21 seconds remaining in o |
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| Nash nets OT winner to lift Columbus over Dallas |
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10/11/2008 |
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| Dallas, TX (MySportsbook) - Rick Nash scored with 21 seconds remaining in overtime, as the new-look Columbus Blue Jackets opened the 2008-09 season with a 5-4 victory over the Dallas Stars at the American Airlines Center. Jakub Voracek, a winger taken seventh overall by Columbus in the 2007 draft, notched a goal and an assist in his NHL debut. Jason Chimera collected two assists for the Blue Jackets, who finished 13th in the West last season. Pascal Leclaire stopped 27-of-31 shots to get the win. Brad Ri |
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| Stars open promising season at home vs. Blue Jackets |
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10/10/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - One season after a surprising march to the Western Conference finals, the Dallas Stars open up their 2008-09 campaign with a home test versus the Columbus Blue Jackets at American Airlines Center. The Stars ended last campaign with a 45-30-7 record and 97 points, which was good for just third place in a tough Pacific Division. However, that didn't stop the Stars from knocking off the two teams ahead of them in the postseason. Dallas, seeded sixth in the West, knocked off the fourth-seede |
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| Sharks open promising season at home vs. Blue Jackets |
NHL Hockey |
10/10/2008 |
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| (MySportsbook) - One season after a surprising march to the Western Conference finals, the Dallas Stars open up their 2008-09 campaign with a home test versus the Columbus Blue Jackets at American Airlines Center. The Stars ended last campaign with a 45-30-7 record and 97 points, which was good for just third place in a tough Pacific Division. However, that didn't stop the Stars from knocking off the two teams ahead of them in the postseason. Dallas, seeded sixth in the West, knocked off the fourth-seede |
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| Blue Jackets put Malhotra on IR |
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10/09/2008 |
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| disclose the injury, but the Columbus Dispatch reported that a lower-body injury sidelined the veteran center, who was placed on IR retroactive to October 5. Malhotra, 28, scored 11 goals and tallied 18 assists in 71 games for the Blue Jackets last season, his ninth in the league. The Mississauga, Ontario native has 65 goals and 97 assists in 557 games with the New York Rangers, Dallas Stars, and Columbus. To fill his roster spot, the Blue Jackets recalled right wing Derek Dorsett from Syracuse of the AHL. |
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