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Crashing the Zamboni: Can Anybody Stop the Sabres?


1. Briere Blitzes Tampa
Daniel Briere led the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-1 bashing of the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday night, scoring three goals for the first Hat Trick of his career. It is hard to believe that he’s never had one before this, seeing that he’s playing in his tenth NHL season (perhaps this is because he spent his first six seasons with Phoenix). Chris Drury also netted a tally, extending his goals-scored streak to four straight games. (Tampa’s Vincent Lecavalier also scored to continue his own streak of games with goals to four as well). Ryan Miller had another solid game between the pipes for the boys in the yellow slug jerseys, stopping 29 of the 30 shots he faced. Buffalo holds an 11 point lead in the Northeast Division, and still has not been below the number two spot in Matt Jordan’s power rankings this year.

2. Fredrik Fantastik
A sign of the apocalypse: the Columbus Blue Jackets have won two straight games, and their opponents haven’t hit the net in two full games. Say hello to Blue Jackets’ goalie Fredrik Norrena, who earned his second consecutive shutout in a 3-0 effort over the last-place Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday (his other victory came in a 4-0 win over Edmonton on Saturday). Norrena received help from Anson Carter, who racked up a goal and an assist in the game to lead the Jackets to their first-ever victory at the Pepsi Center in Denver. Readers, take it from us: you might want to read this paragraph again, because it may be a long time before we see “Columbus” and “won two straight” in the same sentence.

3. Hull To Rafters
The Detroit Red Wings crashed a nice little pregame celebration at the Scottrade Center, winning over St. Louis 5-1– shortly after Brett Hull’s #16 was raised to the rafters. Hull played 11 seasons for the Blues, and was able to tally up some impressive numbers in 19 NHL seasons (we won’t count last year’s brief stint in Phoenix), scoring 741 career goals and falling nine points shy of 1,400. The celebration, which came before the Blues lost their fifth straight game, seemed fitting to come on a night which featured two of Brett’s former teams (he played three seasons with the Red Wings). We highly doubt they’ll be retiring his number in the Glendale Arena, where he played five games for the aforementioned Coyotes before packing his bags and announcing his retirement.

Check It Out
Tuesday’s meetings to discuss possible changes to the schedule and the playoffs worked to no avail. NHL officials are keeping the schedules the way there are for the time being, meaning rare trips for Western Conference teams to the east coast, and vice versa. They also decided on keeping the playoff seeding format untouched, though there were some rumors that the postseason would be changed to a bracket-style tournament.

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One reply on “Crashing the Zamboni: Can Anybody Stop the Sabres?”

Who Can Stop the Sabers? — Answer: barring a fatal plane crash or a team outbreak of a disease…no one. There is no one who has better speed, better goaltending then the Sabers. Also, no one has uglier home jerseys.

  1. Daniel Breire has always been a damn good player, and you’re right, beacuse he was on the Jets/Yotes for years.
  2. Fredrik Norrena, I thought the name sounded familar, so I looked him up at HockeyDB.com. Now, I remember, he played for Vastra Frolunda HC Goteborg in the SEL. His best season so far was in 2000 when he played for TPS Turku in Finland, he went 26-10-3 with a 1.75 GAA. The Finish league is pretty much equal to the NHL now, so maybe the Jackets have their answer.
  3. Brett Hull…before Detriot a crybaby with one ring.  Hull was an idiot for thinking he could play in the new NHL, he was too slow for the old one. He’ll still be in the Hall, but his father could skate circles around him now.

Spot on with the game of the night. THis could be a West Finals preview (even though I’m still on the San Jose/Nashville waggon)

Always love a good hockey fight.

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