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| Cristobal Huet stopped 20 of 22 shots in just over two periods of ice time Monday night as the Capitals destroyed the Bruins 10-2. Despite his success, Huet was forced to the bench after experiencing back spasms. He is considered day-to-day. |
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| Matt Cooke, LW, Pittsburgh Penguins | Monday 3/3, 10:07 PM CT |
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| Matt Cooke scored his first goal with the Capitals 32 seconds into the game as Washington crushed a Boston Bruins team that had won six straight games by the score of 10-2. Cooke added two helpers in the win. |
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| Tim Thomas, G, Boston Bruins | Monday 3/3, 10:03 PM CT |
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| Boston goalie Tim Thomas started the game, got pulled, reentered and pulled again. Thomas gave up seven goals in Boston's 10-2 loss to the Capitals. |
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| Alexander Ovechkin scored a hat trick in Washington's six-goal first period and 10-2 win over Boston on Monday night. The left wing finished with five points putting his league leading total at 90 points on the season.
Ovechkin was credited with a fourth goal in the third period, but official scorers changed it later giving him an assist on Brooks Laich's power-play goal. |
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| Mark Bell, LW, Toronto Maple Leafs | Monday 3/3, 5:40 PM CT |
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| Mark Bell, will miss at least three more weeks of ice time, reports Sportsnet.ca. Bell had surgery in January to repair a broken orbital bone, a fracture he suffered in dog-fight with Pittsburgh's Ryan Malone. Bell has little fantasy value when healthy. He has two goals and five assists in 26 games this year. |
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| The Oilers recalled Marc-Antoine Pouliot from Springfield on Monday, according to TSN.ca. The recall was because Geoff Sanderson tweaked his back and is day-to-day in his recovery. Pouliot has a team-high 20 goals and 22 assists in 50 AHL games this season, but is scoreless in nine appearance with the parent club. |
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| TSN.ca reported Monday afternoon that Alexei Ponikarovsky skated with the team in an afternoon practice and is considered a game-time decision for Tuesday's game against New Jersey. |
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| Jonathan Toews plans to play on Tuesday despite taking a stick to the mouth on Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Toews lost a tooth and needed about 50 stitches. |
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| Peter Forsberg practiced fully on Monday for the first time since signing. He was on a line with Joe Sakic and Milan Hejduk, the Denver Post notes. Sakic and Forsberg probably don't need any more practices to get their timing down together. The Avs have not announced when Forsberg would get into a game. |
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| Evgeni Malkin was named the NHL's No. 1 star of the month for February, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. He opened the month with a 10-game scoring streak and finished with 26 points over 14 games. |
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| The Blackhawks assigned centers Petri Kontiola and Jacob Dowell to Rockford of the AHL on Monday, the Ticker reports. |
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| Chris Clark, RW, Washington Capitals | Monday 3/3, 11:09 AM CT |
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| Chris Clark is working hard to return from a groin injury, but the team still doesn't know when he'll return, the Washington Post reports. Clark has played only 18 games this season. |
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| Daniel Alfredsson did not practice on Sunday, but he will be in the lineup on Monday, the Ottawa Citizen reports. He needed five stitches after being hit with a shot on Saturday. |
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| Chris Pronger will not play on Monday as he continues to recover from surgery to repair a small fracture in his jaw, the Ottawa Citizen reports. He is day-to-day. |
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| Ryan Smyth, LW, Colorado Avalanche | Monday 3/3, 10:55 AM CT |
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| Ryan Smyth passed CT scans on his head, but he may have a serious shoulder injury. Sources informed the Denver Post that Smyth may have suffered a separated left shoulder. His season could be over. Smyth missed six weeks earlier in the season due to a fractured right ankle, and in between the two injuries, he did a decent job for fantasy teams. The Avs will miss him and may need to lean more heavily on Jaroslav Hllinka and Wojtek Wolski. |
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| Niklas Backstrom stopped 27 of 28 shots on Sunday and picked up his third win in as many games. Life got a little bumpy for Backstrom and the Wild in the middle of February, but he appears to be back on the right track. He is a solid No. 2 fantasy goalie. |
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| Mikko Koivu was unable to play on Sunday due to the flu, the AP reports. He is day-to-day. |
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| Rick Nash, LW, Columbus Blue Jackets | Monday 3/3, 10:41 AM CT |
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| Rick Nash netted his 35th goal of the season on Sunday. He has scored 11 points over his last 10 games and is on the verge of setting career-best marks in points and penalty minutes. |
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