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Player Profiles

Avery excited to rejoin Rangers, awaits opportunity

Wednesday, 11.02.2011 / 2:28 PM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

Sean Avery is ready to rejoin the Rangers lineup when called upon to do so. (Getty Images)
GREENBURGH, N.Y. -- The polarizing Sean Avery returned to the Rangers' practice facility Wednesday and was back on the ice with his NHL teammates for the first time since early October, when he was the final player cut following the preseason schedule.

Avery, who was recalled Tuesday after clearing re-entry waivers, took turns in a fourth-line rotation with Artem Anisimov, Erik Christensen and Andre Deveaux. He spoke to a large gathering of reporters in front of his locker afterwards and talked about his excitement level of being back with the team he loves and the confidence he gained by playing two games in the AHL.

"We're all here because we want to play for the Rangers," Avery said. "Everyone gets to make that decision at some point, and I love this team, I want to win, and I want to play as hard as I possibly can."
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Pavelski emerging as top-line star for Sharks

Monday, 10.31.2011 / 2:33 PM / Player Profiles

Dave Lozo - NHL.com Staff Writer

Joe Pavelski
Joe Pavelski
Center - SJS
GOALS: 7 | ASST: 4 | PTS: 11
SOG: 34 | +/-: 5
Joe Pavelski can't skate and doesn't have the size to compete in the National Hockey League.

During the 2003 NHL Draft, that was what 29 teams likely believed about the 5-foot-11, 195-pound forward who was playing his junior hockey with the Waterloo Blackhawks in the USHL. Pavelski wasn't selected until the seventh round (No. 205) by the San Jose Sharks and Doug Wilson, who had taken the job as general manager about a month prior.

Eight years later, there probably isn't a team in the League that wouldn't want Pavelski on its roster.

"I didn't know if I was going to get drafted," Pavelski told NHL.com. "I was slightly on the radar. If it happened, it was going to be late. I didn't hang around. I just did my day. I got home and had this call. It's definitely exciting when it happens, but you knew it was just a draft pick and there were no guarantees behind it."
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Devils' Larsson finding learning curve accelerated

Monday, 10.31.2011 / 11:50 AM / Player Profiles

Dave Lozo - NHL.com Staff Writer

Through the first four games of this season, 18-year-old rookie Adam Larsson was leading the New Jersey Devils defensemen in ice time, averaging a whopping 24 minutes per game. It was about three minutes more than defense partner Andy Greene was averaging up until that point.

It's a far cry from what Greene, an undrafted free agent out of Miami University, went through in his first four games as a rookie with the Devils in 2007. In game four, Greene took just five shifts and played a mere 3:44 in a loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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Landeskog's early play earned him full-time NHL job

Monday, 10.31.2011 / 9:00 AM / Player Profiles

Mike G. Morreale - NHL.com Staff Writer

Of all the players selected in the opening round of the 2011 NHL Draft, Gabriel Landeskog was considered a leading candidate to remain in the League from the outset.

Not surprisingly, the 18-year-old Stockholm native hasn't disappointed, and has shown enough in the first month of his NHL career to spend all season with the Colorado Avalanche.

In nine games, the second pick of the draft is second on the team -- and among all NHL rookies -- with 4 goals, and is tied for the lead among rookie forwards in ice time at 16:51 per game.

Avalanche General Manager Greg Sherman had until Landeskog's 10th game to decide if the young power forward was going to remain in the NHL all season or go back to junior hockey, but told NHL.com it didn't take him near that long to make his decision.
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Highly-touted Hedman wants to do everything well

Monday, 10.31.2011 / 9:00 AM / Player Profiles

Lonnie Herman - NHL.com Correspondent

Victor Hedman clearly recalls the moment he realized he no longer was in Sweden.
 
"I had just moved into my own apartment and I was walking to practice and I saw these people that were living on the street," Hedman said. "That was the first time I ever saw that. That was really a life-changing moment. It's tough to see."
 
Hedman, the second pick of the 2009 Entry Draft, had come to the United States to play hockey for the Tampa Bay Lightning, and life-changing moments would come from everywhere.
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Sens' Swede trio suggests bright future in Ottawa

Monday, 10.31.2011 / 9:00 AM / Player Profiles

Erin Nicks - NHL.com Correspondent

Ottawa may be Canada's capital city, but the Senators are experiencing a renaissance with a definitive Swedish flavor.

With Daniel Alfredsson leading the way, Ottawa has stockpiled a handful of young players from the captain's homeland who appear ready to make to make an impact with this franchise.

Rookies Mika Zibanejad and David Rundblad have joined third-year player Erik Karlsson in the Sens' dressing room during the early days of the NHL season.  Zibanejad was drafted in the first round (No. 6) in the 2011 Entry Draft, while Rundblad was drafted No. 17 by St. Louis in 2009, and was acquired by Ottawa via trade for the No. 16 pick in 2011.
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Increased confidence, comfort level keys for Neal

Friday, 10.28.2011 / 3:28 PM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

James Neal says everything about his game this season is exactly the same as it was last season. He insists that neither his speed down the wing nor the way he's trying to score goals has changed one iota.

Similarly, Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma suggests the player he sees wearing No. 18 for the Penguins this season reminds him of the same guy who wore the same number for the same team in a combined 27 regular-season and playoff games last season.
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Elliott's hard work has him No. 1 in Blues' net

Friday, 10.28.2011 / 2:43 PM / Player Profiles

Louie Korac - NHL.com Correspondent

By his own admission, Brian Elliott's battle to win a roster spot with the St. Louis Blues this season was nothing new.

"It's something that I've gone through my whole career," the 26-year-old Elliott said. "In college, I came in and backed up the first two years (at the University of Wisconsin), but I definitely pushed for that starting spot. When I got the chance, I ran with it."

Elliott seems to be running with it again.
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Brown plays his part in Toronto's hot start

Thursday, 10.27.2011 / 12:55 PM / Player Profiles

Davis Harper - NHL.com Staff Writer

When Mike Brown arrived in Toronto from Anaheim in the summer of 2010, it was safe to say his facial hair preceded him. The bruising winger joined the Leafs sporting an impressive Fu Manchu that helped him appear more rugged than even his 391 career penalty minutes would suggest.

Brown maintained the unique facial hair throughout the 2010-11 season, in which he recorded career highs in points (8) and assists (5) and endeared himself to fans for his relentless, physical style.

During the offseason, however, Brown knew it was time for a change of pace. The Maple Leafs had just watched the playoffs at home for the sixth-straight season, and once training camp for the 2011-12 season arrived, Brown was limited by injury.
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Kessel's defensive improvement fuels hot start

Thursday, 10.27.2011 / 10:18 AM / Player Profiles

Dave Lozo - NHL.com Staff Writer

Phil Kessel
Phil Kessel
Right Wing - TOR
GOALS: 9 | ASST: 6 | PTS: 15
SOG: 27 | +/-: 5
NEW YORK -- An argument can be made that Phil Kessel's hot start to this season was born out of one of the more frustrating stretches of his career last season.

About a week after suffering the indignity of being the final selection during the Player Fantasy Draft for the 2011 All-Star Game in Raleigh, N.C., Kessel found himself in a situation that was far more bothersome. Leafs coach Ron Wilson benched him during a blowout loss at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres on Feb. 5, then demoted him to the third line at the next day's practice. Kessel said he wasn't sure if things were going to work out in Toronto.
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