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Penguins pay rare visit to San Jose on a busy 13-game Saturday
Saturday, 11.07.2009 / 12:49 AM / Game Previews
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The Pittsburgh Penguins don't come to San Jose very often, so Saturday night's visit to HP Pavilion is something of a novelty. Not that the Penguins would mind skipping trips to the Shark Tank altogether.

The defending Stanley Cup champions went 6-0-1 in their first seven trips to San Jose. But they're 0-6-1 since winning on Oct. 22, 1997 -- including a 2-1 loss last Oct. 28. The Penguins are 1-1 on their trip through California, winning 4-3 at Anaheim and losing 5-2 at Los Angeles. San Jose comes home after a 2-0-1 trip and is 4-0-1 at the Tank this season.
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Red Wings draw a big crowd to Hockey Hall of Fame
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 8:26 PM / Hall of Fame
By John McGourty  - NHL.com Staff Writer
TORONTO -- Jonatan Persson, a 12-year-old from Martestad, Sweden, flew all the away across the Atlantic Ocean and a third of the way across to Canada to come to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto to meet his favorite Detroit Red Wing -- Chris Osgood.

What? Not Swedish stars Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Zetterberg or Tomas Holmstrom?

"Nope, Osgood," said Persson. "He's good."

Next to Jonatan, his older brother, Sebastien, 14, just shook his head in that universal way of hockey players. You could almost guess what he was going to say.

"He's a goalie, what are you going to do?" Sebastien said, as their dad Fredrik laughed.

The Persson brothers are hockey players with Martestad Bois Hockey. Martestad is about halfway between Stockholm and Gothenberg. Jonatan must be pretty good. Normally, the brothers play with age-appropriate teams, but sometimes Jonatan plays up with the older boys.
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Southeast: Caps need others to step up in Ovi's absence
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 5:00 PM / Division Notebooks
By Mike G. Morreale  - NHL.com Staff Writer
While there's no denying the upper-body strain that sidelined Washington's Alex Ovechkin has created a huge hole in the Capitals' lineup, there never was a reason to believe the team didn't have the necessary ammunition to carry on offensively.

That was until Wednesday, when the Caps dropped a 3-2 decision to the New Jersey Devils in Newark.

"Not only didn't our secondary star players stand out (against the Devils), but they cost us the game and that's a tough one to swallow," coach Bruce Boudreau told the media.

In particular, Boudreau was frustrated by untimely penalties in the third period that led to a pair of power-play goals by Devils rookie Nicklas Bergfors. The two calls that irked Boudreau were interference penalties taken by Alexander Semin at 11:01 and Brendan Morrison at 14:24.

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Free Shipping in November
Red, blue come together to see Capitals
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 5:00 PM / Ice Age
By Phil Coffey  - NHL.com Sr. Editorial Director
Lots of games are played in and around Washington D.C. -- some even involve athletes!

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

Seriously folks, there never seems to be a dull moment in the United States Capitol, so sometimes sports gets a short shrift there. But thanks to the Washington Capitals in general and Alex Ovechkin in particular, the city of cherry blossoms, filibusters and partisan politics is becoming a hockey town.

Seemingly both Democrats and Republicans can agree on that.

"As a resident of Washington, D.C., I continue to benefit from the contributions of Russians -- specifically, from Alexander Ovechkin," President Barack Obama said during a trip to Russia in July. "We are very pleased to have him in D.C."

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Go West young Penguins
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 5:00 PM / Columns
By Larry Wigge  - NHL.com Columnist

"You do what you have to do to win."
-- Sidney Crosby

The defending Stanley Cup-champion Pittsburgh Penguins are letting the rest of the NHL see how difficult they are going to be to unseat as champs.

After seeing Sidney Crosby slide across the goal crease and make a double pad stack save on Scott Niedermayer and then Marc-Andre Fleury flash a glove save on Saku Koivu -- both in the final minutes -- of a 4-3 victory at Anaheim on Nov. 3, the Penguins ran their road record to 7-0-0 this season.

It also gave them just their second regulation win in their past 16 games in California (ending a 1-13-1 stretch), dating to the start of the 1999-2000 season.


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Elias return could spark Devils
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 3:07 PM / Fantasy Games
By Rocky Bonanno  - NHL.com Staff Writer
Fantasy Forecast for Friday, November 6

THURSDAY'S ROUNDUP:

Devils forward Patrik Elias, the club's all-time leading scorer, will make his season debut Friday at home against the Islanders. He had been sidelined since prior to training camp following surgery to his hip and groin. Coach Jacques Lemaire had intended to use the versatile forward at left wing, but Elias (owned in 91 percent of all Yahoo! leagues) is slated to play center in place of Rob Niedermayer (13 games, 2-5-7, 1 percent), who has an upper-body injury and will not be in the lineup.
"He'll have to play. I would say he's going to play from 17-19 minutes," Lemaire said. "We'll see how it goes and how he plays."

Elias took Niedermayer's place at Thursday's practice, centering Matt Halischuk and Jamie Langenbrunner. Other lines were Zach Parise-Travis Zajac-Nicklas Bergfors; Brian Rolston-Dainius Zubrus-David Clarkson; and a fourth line consisting of Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, Rod Pelley, Ilkka Pikkarainen and Andrew Peters.

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Danis gets start for Devils vs. Islanders
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 2:11 PM / NHL Insider
By Mike G. Morreale  - NHL.com Staff Writer
NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey Devils backup goalie Yann Danis will get his second start of the season Friday against his former team, the New York Islanders, at Prudential Center.

"The thing is, you just have to make sure you stay focused at all times because you never know when you're going to get that call," Danis told NHL.com. "I just have to perform well at morning skates and, every day at practice, you just have to work hard. It might be easy to get discouraged a little bit but you can't afford to do that. You have to stay focused and you have to keep working and always maintain that edge."

Danis, who signed a free-agent contract with the Devils in July, spent one season with the Islanders before changing Atlantic Division allegiances this summer.

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Devils' Elias back in the lineup
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 1:36 PM / NHL Insider
By Mike G. Morreale  - NHL.com Staff Writer
NEWARK, N.J. -- Patrik Elias, the New Jersey Devils' all-time leading point producer, will make his anticipated return to the ice Friday when the Devils host the New York Islanders at Prudential Center.

His return couldn't come at a better time. With checking-line forwards Jay Pandolfo (dislocated shoulder) and Rob Niedermayer (upper body) on the shelf, Devils coach Jacques Lemaire needs all the healthy offensive bodies he can get.

"If Niedermayer would be in, then Patrik would have played on the left side, but right now he's got no choice but to go at center," Lemaire told the media following his team's morning skate Friday in preparation for their game with the Islanders.

"He hasn't played the whole year and didn't have a lot of practices but he looks in good shape -- not playing shape -- but he didn't gain any weight," Lemaire said. "To me, it won't take long … maybe his passes won't be as crisp and accurate, but I think he'll be effective. Niedermayer was a big part of this team and Patrik will help to sustain what we were doing."
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Ovechkin out for weekend games
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 1:21 PM / NHL Insider
By Dan Rosen  - NHL.com Staff Writer

"He's feeling a little bit better every day, but as percentages or degrees, I don't know. He might be one percent better, but he says it's feeling better."
-- Bruce Boudreau

Alex Ovechkin says his upper-body strain is getting better, but after trying to skate in Thursday's practice at Bank Atlantic Center, the Washington Capitals left wing admitted he's not ready to return this weekend.

Ovechkin, who did not partake in the Capitals' morning skate Friday, will miss tonight's game in Florida and Saturday's game at the Verizon Center against the Panthers. His status will be updated again early next week before the Capitals host the Islanders on Wednesday.

"It's only three or four days, so you can't be better right away," Ovechkin said after skating in Thursday's practice. "You need more time. We'll see. Two more games and then we'll see."
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Backes hopes to wear Team USA jersey again
Friday, 11.06.2009 / 11:00 AM / 2010 Winter Olympics
By Dave Lozo  - NHL.com Staff Writer

"It's one of those things where you have the jersey on and it feels good. You're hoping that you're doing the right things on the ice to get a spot on that team and represent our country at the Olympics." -- David Backes

NEW YORK -- David Backes donned a Team USA jersey and stepped onto the ice. He grabbed a stick and slid a puck back and forth to a couple of guys with Olympic hockey experience before returning to solid ground to talk with reporters and a few fans.

The St. Louis Blues forward is hoping the next time he wears the red, white and blue, it will be during 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver instead of at an Olympic kickoff party at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.

The USOC held a celebration Wednesday to commemorate the Games' 100-day countdown, and Backes was on hand along with former Olympians Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig and Steve Janaszak to take part in a hockey clinic and make an appearance on NBC's "Today" show.
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