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| Rangers hope to punch ticket to postseason at home vs. Flyers |
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04/09/2009 |
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| Philly has three remaining. Tonight marks the final home test of the regular season for New York, which will complete its schedule Sunday in Philadelphia. However, this is not a home-and-home series as the Flyers are playing a road game against the New York Islanders on Saturday. The Flyers and Rangers have split four meetings this year and Philadelphia has taken four of the last six encounters overall. Philly has also posted three wins in its last five trips to the Big Apple. The Rangers ended a two-game slide |
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| Habs try to clinch playoff spot versus Bruins |
NHL Hockey |
04/09/2009 |
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| as they dropped a road test at Ottawa on Tuesday. Boston had won six in a row prior to losing the 3-2 decision to the Senators, who received goals from Dany Heatley, Mike Fisher and Christoph Schubert. Zdeno Chara and Phil Kessel each had a goal for the Bruins, while Manny Fernandez made 29 stops in the loss. Boston is playing its final home test of the regular season tonight and is 28-6-6 as the host club this year. The Bruins will close their schedule with road tests against Buffalo and the New York Islanders. |
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| Penguins hold off Lightning to clinch playoff spot |
NHL Hockey |
04/08/2009 |
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| that Halpern followed to score with 40.6 ticks remaining, but Staal sealed it with an empty-net goal shortly thereafter. Game Notes Pittsburgh had lost three straight road games and improved to 19-15-6 away from the Igloo this year...The Pens will host the New York Islanders on Thursday...The Lightning have also dropped 10 of 11 and 14 of their last 17 games...Pittsburgh took three of four from the Lightning this year and has won five of the six encounters overall. The Pens have also won four straight in Tampa. |
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| Staal's hat trick helps Carolina rout Islanders |
NHL Hockey |
04/07/2009 |
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| Raleigh, NC (Best E Casino) - Eric Staal set a franchise mark by recording his fourth hat trick of the season in Carolina's historic 9-0 romp over the lowly New York Islanders at RBC Center. It was Staal's eighth career three-goal game and the feat increased his goal total this season to 39 -- surpassing his total of 38 markers from a season ago with two games to play. Staal also had an assist as the team matched a franchise record and extended another. It was Carolina's ninth consecutive victory overall, match |
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| Pens hope to get on track versus Lightning |
NHL Hockey |
04/07/2009 |
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| three games left in the regular season, is gunning for his second straight Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer. The Penguins are just 18-15-6 as the road club this year and have lost three straight as the visitor. Pittsburgh will host the New York Islanders on Thursday before closing the regular season Saturday in Montreal. The Lightning, meanwhile, are second from the bottom in the Eastern Conference and have lost their last six games. The latest setback came this past Saturday as the New York Islande |
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| Streaking Hurricanes try to extend win streaks vs. Islanders |
NHL Hockey |
04/07/2009 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The sizzling Carolina Hurricanes will take aim at a ninth consecutive victory when they host the lowly New York Islanders for tonight's test at RBC Center. Carolina was last in action Saturday against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins and earned an overtime victory. A win tonight would tie a franchise record winning streak set twice during the 2005-06 season -- the same year the Hurricanes won the club's only Stanley Cup championship. Carolina has also won a franchise-record 11 in a row on home |
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| Flyers host Panthers in key playoff race battle |
NHL Hockey |
04/07/2009 |
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| Wachovia Center. The Flyers have 95 points and need just one more to officially earn a spot in the postseason. Philadelphia is tied for fourth in the East with Carolina and the Hurricanes are also in action tonight as they are scheduled to host the New York Islanders. Philadelphia has a game in hand over the Hurricanes, with three tests left after tonight's outing. Florida hasn't made the postseason since 2000 and comes into tonight tied with the New York Rangers for the East's eighth and final postseason berth. |
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| Lightning fail to strike twice, fall to Isles |
NHL Hockey |
04/05/2009 |
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| Uniondale, NY (Best E Casino) - Yann Danis stopped 29-of-30 shots to backstop the New York Islanders to a 3-1 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning in a matchup featuring the Eastern Conference's two worst teams from Nassau Coliseum. Richard Park, Radek Martinek and Josh Bailey scored for New York, losers of three straight and six of the last seven contests entering Saturday. "If we keep playing well down the stretch here, it's going to give us confidence going into next year," Bailey said. "Beating a team like D |
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| Lightning visit Isles |
NHL Hockey |
04/04/2009 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The bottom two teams in the Eastern Conference will face off on Long Island tonight, as the New York Islanders welcome the Tampa Bay Lightning for a battle at Nassau Coliseum. The Islanders are last in the NHL with just 59 points on the year and Tampa Bay is 14th in the East with 65 points. Both clubs have been eliminated from playoff contention and have been relegated to a spoiler role. New York has not fared well recently, losing three straight and six of their last seven contests. The Isles |
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| Leafs try to play spoiler in home test vs. rival Habs |
NHL Hockey |
04/04/2009 |
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| e Canadiens have won two straight and four of their last five games. The Habs have recorded at least a point in five straight contests, going 4-0-1 over that stretch. The Canadiens were in action Thursday and recorded an easy road win over the lowly New York Islanders. Saku Koivu and Andrei Markov each tallied a goal and an assist, as the Habs clobbered the Isles, 5-1, at Nassau Coliseum. Alex Tanguay, Mathieu Schneider and Michael Komisarek also scored for the Canadiens, who had lost five straight games prior to |
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