I'm going into a hockey pool (we're kinda late, I know) so I was wondering if anyone could tell me all the important injuries. I'm being pretty broad when I say important: any players that play on the first 2 lines, goalies, top defencemen, other important players. Could be a tall order....
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Hasek is still out for Ottawa.  \nKasparitis played the last game but he might not play in the 1st round for the Rangers.\nForsberg is back but will probably get injured in the 1st game for Philly.\nTomas Vokoun might be out for Nashville with a sore back & blood clots.
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Goaltenders need the following equipment and it generally goes on in this order.  Some people may do it differently, but it's impossible to do it drastically different.\n1) Cup (most important piece of equipment!)\n2) Garter belt and socks\n- Some people wear shorts with velco tabs to hold the socks up and a built in cup.\n3) Hockey Pants\n4) Skates\n5) Leg pads\n6) Chest protector\n7) Helmet/mask\n8) Gloves\n\nThere are several types of saves.  Kick save, glove save, blocker save, stick save, etc.  Below are a couple of links that are probably a bit more relevant.  These contain information about goaltending styles and cover the specific saves.\nhttp://www.epinions.com/content_3906773124\nhttp://www.mitchkorn.com/pdf/Goaltending%20Styles.pdf
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It's not an official stat anymore.  There will be a stats geek somewhere that keeps it though, Try the hockey news they are usually good at keeping things like that.
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todd bertuzzi\nderian hatcher\ntie domi\nchris pronger\nchris chelios\ndarius kasparitis\njamal mayers\nbrian marchment (retired or not?)\ntomas holmstrom\nderek boogard\n\nok mac, i never thought i'd see you in this 'arena'!  agreed brashear.  but do you know who is the tough guy i really DO like?  georges laracque, i do not know if he is still an oiler or not.\n\nfor pete's sake, the guy even has his own website!! go georges!!\n\nhttp://www.georgeslaraque.com/
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Nothing sucks worse than being on a losing team.\n\nNeither of my teams are doing very well this season... mostly it has to do with short benches and needing to have more players at the level of the competition.\n\nLosing makes any drama worse, so that's part of the problem right there.  \n\nIt sounds like you're lacking some locker room leadership.  It's the captain's job to keep the mood on the bench and in the locker room reasonable; it's also your coach's job to make sure you all are pointed in the right direction going out on the ice.  Talk to your captain, talk to your coach.  Express your concern about the mood of your team -- ask how you can help.  As a goalie, you're in a unique position... you see the whole team in a way no one else does, and you're also critical to the team in the way a skater isn't.  I can be replaced.  You can't.  So express your concern about the mood.  Ask your coach and captain to keep the team cohesive and focused.  That's their job.\n\nAs far as scoring goes, that's tough.  Sometimes, particularly if you're not practicing as a team, you're just going to lose a lot.  It's possible that focusing the team will help somewhat, but nothing makes up for garden variety skills.  There may be no good answer on that one.  You're in your season.  You may just have to grit your teeth and get through this one.\n\nWhich brings me to your last question.\n\nAs a goalie, of course, the pressure's on you.  You feel a unique responsibility for every goal scored against, and you may take a lot more responsbility than you should for every puck that gets by you.\n\nLosing is a team effort.  \n\nGo into each game with a personal goal for yourself that's reasonable and has nothing to do with your team.  Tonight, say to yourself, I'm going to play the puck a lot.  Or this game, you're going to play more out, or this game you're going to say at least four useful things to your D.  Give yourself achievable goals that become part of your net, your game.  Focus on those, as well as your own game.  Spend this season developing as a goalie; take some risks, learn some new things.  Study the other teams, learn as much as you can.\n\nKeep your sense of humor.  This is hockey, not brain surgery.  No one dies.   It's a *game*.  Your team sucks, you're having a sucky season, it will pass.  This one season you will look back on and hide your face and groan, but it will be *over*.  Get through it, use it to strengthen your attitude and your grit and your goaltending as much as you can.\n\nLike I said, I'm having a season like that on both teams.  It happens.  Keep your chin up, keep pluggin'.  Do the best you can.
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I think the most talented position is wherever the most talented player happens to be standing.\n\nI play.\n\nI've played forward, usually LW most of the four or five years I've been playing, but recently got put back on D because I've been playing with a bunch of very fast, very capable youngsters and it's a struggle (in my dotage) to keep up with them.\n\nI find D to be a lot more of a thinking position than I thought.  I keep a much larger ice-view, and tend to see plays unfold in both directions.  I find I can better anticipate where the puck will be at any given moment, where it's going, and how to be there and do the right thing.\n\nI've actually had more SOG playing D than I have LW in a while.  I'm more aggressive, and a better player there, which is probably why they moved me (and not just the speed issue).\n\nSo... yeah.  I think centering takes huge skill, endurance and talent.  So does goaltending.  But some of the best hockey players ever have been defensemen (Orr leaps immediately to mind).\n\nYour talent's where the heart and skill are, in the end.
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Shutting down the other team is as valuable or even more than scoring. There are a lot of guys who can score goals but the coach won't play them. They figure the guy is a liability because he won't back-check or that he doesn't deserve the ice-time when other guys are working hard but he is a floater ( like Gretzky). If he wasn't surrounded by other star players he would have been a horrible liability.
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The Redwings have really no choice but to keep Legace in goal.  Osgood is injured and Howard does not thave much game experience let alone playoff experience.  Legace can't be the total reason the Wings are playing lousy.  He has been very average and needs to step up his game but he needs some offensive help as well. I do feel the Wings need to be hungrier at playoff time and maybe the President's Trophy is more of a curse than a blessing.  When you have your division/conference wrapped up so early hard to keep the competitive edge.  Keep the faith they have two games to go and stranger things have happened in the playoffs!
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Get rid of both of them, for if your league is a league like mine you need to have people playing no matter who they are.(but it help if they are better.)Here are some names that may be available that i pick up and drop occasionally: Derek Fisher, Kevin Martin, Keith van Horn, Swift (C for Seattle), Luther Head, Eddie Griffin(Blocks), Gary Payton, Kenny Thomas.aka /Always look for injured players subs who will play many minutes, minutes are the key, also look at who the coach favors, read team papers(in other words: DO YOUR HOMEWORK)It will payoff in the end and you will have a winning team.
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I'm not sure which sport you're talking about but I do know a lot about hockey.  In hockey when this happens, the last player on the attacking team that touched the puck is the one who gets the credit for the goal.  There cannot ever be a goal that doesn't get credited to anyone since every stoppage of play results in a face-off.  If a defender scored the goal or if the goalie scored the goal on the defending goal, they do not get credit for it.  I am a goalie and I have scored a couple of goals before on the other side of the ice (they pulled their goalie and I just shot it down to the other end) and I did get credit for those ones though.
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I have broken a bunch of fingers most of them playing hockey I think wrapping up the finger should help but it will still probably hurt, You play hockey, well this isn't the last time you will be told to suck it up, my coaches told me that so many times for so many broken bones that I just stopped saying anything. Good Luck! CHIX DIG SCARS! lol
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When I was in my early twenties some friends and I thought that it would be fun to rent some ice-time and have a 'fun' game of hockey.\n\nWell the only available ice-time at the local rink was from 2am-3am on Saturday night / Sunday morning.  Well, as young adult males what do you think that we did in the meantime?\n\nOf course beer is the answer to every question for every twenty-something male Canadian.  (or should I just drop the 'twenty-something' and 'Canadian' and be done with it)\n\nWell we were pretty drunk by 1:00am and we still had another hour to kill.  (I'm not proud of this next part but it happened and I won't lie about it)  We were drinking outside next to a cemetery on the edge of town and we noticed that there were some unused gravestones so we took one.\n\nWe were going to play a prank on someone.  Who knows how beer-fueled logic works anyway?  Well we noticed it was time to go to the rink, still with this gravestone in the back of my buddies pick-up.\n\nI'm a good street-hockey player but I'm not the greatest skater.  (my mother never took me to hockey as a child because she doesn't like getting up at 4am and hey, who can blame her? - I love my mother but I would have liked to have played more hockey)  \n\nAnyway, while we were just warming up and passing the puck around and shooting on net, I lost my balance, fell backwards, put my arm out to catch my fall but broke off the tip of my collar bone.  Ouch!  \n\nIf anybody has had that injury then you will know that no amount of beer will stop that pain.  The worst part was taking off the hockey jersey to have a look.  Double ouch!\n\nI'm not saying that I didn't deserve it - I did!  Perhaps this is an example of instant karma.  In any case let me be your warning:  don't drink and skate! and especially don't drink and skate after stealing a gravestone!  (unless you've got the skills of Theoren Fleury or Sandis Ozolinch)\n\nI went to Emergency and they put me in a sling and told me to visit my regular doctor the next day.  I did, and do you know what he said:  (direct quote)  "What do you want me to do about it?"
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Are you kidding, Moon? The Buffalo Sabres have been my team since their inception. I was only 6 when they made their NHL debut in 1970. Gilbert Perreault was my childhood hero growing up in those snowy Buffalo winters I recall so fondly. Erm, those same winters become less fun as one ages, I can tell you. lol...\n\nAlthough I've not lived there in many a winter I remain steadfastly loyal to the Sabres and have thoroughly enjoyed this exciting comeback season and playoffs -- and we're not finished yet! Although we lost to favoured Ottawa last night, we're still up 3-1 in the series and I believe we'll finish them off on Saturday (Monday at latest).\n\nAs for who their best players are, please bear in mind that these talented young Sabres are a team with a capital T. They are something of a no-name cast who outwork, outskate and outhustle every team they face. I adore this club! The consensus best players are: Ryan Miller (their exceptional rookie goaltender), Daniel Briere (co-captain), J.P. Dumont (Briere's linemate and close friend), Jochen Hecht (3rd member of that line and the team's best defensive forward), Chris Drury (the other co-captain), Maxim Afinogenov (best and fastest skater and playmaker) and their younger future star players like Tim Connolly, Ales Kotalik, Derek Roy and Brian Campbell. I'm leaving players out because, by rights, I should just name the entire team. It's just an amazing group of players (and coaches) who get along great and support each other on and off the ice. I LOVE this freaking team and, baby, we are going ALL THE WAY!\n\nLET'S GO BUF-FA-LO!!! \n\nP.S. Thank you for asking! :)
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the new recruiting class at North Dakota looks very very good.  Not to mention taeves will be back along with his little brother who is supposedly better but has off ice issues.  When you look at Minnesota on paper they should be damn good, however, they should have been last year but just had way to many individuals playing a team sport and i think you will see that again this yr.  If North Dakota can get that young defense to play like they have in yrs past then the sioux are the team to beat.
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Nene recently got "injured" in today's game and Eduardo Najera seems to be the new designated starter in Kenyon Martin's absence.  Taking this into consideration along with the fact that he is no longer "C" eligible (which you mentioned), makes him expendable.  As for Claxton, many fantasy analysts can see a lot of potential in him as he is a starter for the first time in his career.  It is just unfortunate that he got a minor injury recently, but he should be back in uniform soon.  Maybe it would be wise to give Speedy a little more time and keep him on your team.\n\nOverall, I feel that you should dump Nene in favor of Ryan Gomes who is now the Celts starting PF after recording his first triple-double a couple of days ago.  Added to his is that his main backup--Al Jefferson--just had an appendectomy and is out for the next two to three weeks.\n\nLastly, I heard Jason Williams has started practicing again and should be back next week or the week after at the latest.  Help is on the way!  Good Luck!
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we can win in 5 but it will be a tough task with tallinder now being out for the rest of the playoffs. we have these rookie defenders coming up from rochester to start in their 1st ever playoff game. it won't be easy but they have done it all year long so why stop now. sabres in 5. lets go sabres.