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Player Profiles

Williams shows that health is wealth (of goals)

Thursday, 12.02.2010 / 10:00 AM / Player Profiles

Arpon Basu - Managing Editor LNH.com

"My injuries have been … when I do it, I seem to do it good. It was tough. There were definitely tears and thoughts of, 'Will I ever be healthy again? Am I ever going to be back on top where I was? Am I ever going to be a player in this League?' Mentally pushing through, there was obviously a lot of family support, but ultimately it came down to me and I've still got a long way to go."
-- Justin Williams

Justin Williams' hockey career should be defined by a list of accomplishments and awards.

Unfortunately, a more apt description of the dynamic Los Angeles Kings forward's time in the NHL would be a list of injuries.

From the time he broke his finger in his rookie season with the Philadelphia Flyers in January 2001, Williams has been subjected to a seemingly never-ending string of bad luck on the injury front. But every time Williams has managed to remain healthy enough to play 82 games, he's topped the 30-goal mark; however, that's happened just twice in his career.

Now, heading into Thursday's home game against the Florida Panthers (10:30 p.m. ET, NHLN-CA), Williams is on pace to stay healthy and score at least 30 goals with the Kings.
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Streaking Crosby November's Star of the Month

Wednesday, 12.01.2010 / 12:05 PM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

NEW YORK -- Wayne Gretzky set the NHL record for consecutive games with at least one point when he ripped it up for 153 points in the first 51 games of the 1983-84 season. Mario Lemieux fell five short of Gretzky's mark six seasons later when he put together a run of 46 straight games with at least one point.

Sidney Crosby's current point streak reached 13 games Monday at Madison Square Garden, and he swears he's not gunning to catch his current boss or his former hero because it seems so far-fetched right now.

"Yeah, I don't expect that," Crosby said with a smile. "That's for sure."
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Big Buff makes big impact on Thrashers' blue line

Wednesday, 11.24.2010 / 9:26 AM / Player Profiles

John Manasso - NHL.com Correspondent

DULUTH, Ga. -- Twenty-one games into the NHL season, the marriage of Dustin Byfuglien on defense in the first season of Craig Ramsay's tenure as coach of the Atlanta Thrashers looks like a match made in heaven.

After Byfuglien arrived during the offseason from Stanley Cup champion Chicago via trade, Atlanta elected to move the 6-foot-3, 265-pounder, fresh off a dynamic performance in the playoffs as a forward, back to defense. General manager Rick Dudley made the trade and hired Ramsay within a whirlwind 24-hour period in June.

Maybe somewhere in the hockey savant mind of Dudley, the vision of Byfuglien paired with Ramsay's system, which encourages defensemen to join the rush, such a potent mix had first bloomed. Entering Wednesday's games, Byfuglien ranks third among defensemen in points with 19 (only 15 shy of his total for all of last season), trailing the League co-leaders by a single point and leading all defensemen in goals with seven. The Thrashers host Detroit and Nicklas Lidstrom, one of those 20-point defensemen, on Wednesday.

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Iginla rolling again, hopes Flames will follow

Tuesday, 11.23.2010 / 5:37 PM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

Jarome Iginla met with a confidant within the Calgary Flames organization early last week in order to get his head on straight. Iginla wouldn't say who it was that he spoke to and hinted that it was not the same meeting in which a team official told him not to worry, that they weren't going to ask him to waive his no-trade clause.

This was strictly about hockey, about breaking down Iginla's game to the most simplistic form.

"I had to get my game level back up, so I had to break it down, concentrate on just a couple of things," Iginla told NHL.com. "It helped me focus."

He's been spectacular since taking a good hard look in the proverbial mirror.
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Comfortable Howard reaching potential in Motown

Tuesday, 11.23.2010 / 4:18 PM / Player Profiles

Brian Hedger - NHL.com Correspondent

  JIMMY HOWARD
  G - DETROIT

RECORD: 11-1-2
SV%: .911 | GAA: 2.46 | SO: 1

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DETROIT – Jimmy Howard had to laugh when told the new design on his goalie mask might be the coolest in the League.
 
On the front are two Ford Mustangs separated by white racing stripes down the middle, with an Old English "D" on the chin.
 
"The one last year had the speedometer on it with all the retired numbers, but people didn't really realize that," said Howard, who's in his second season starting for the Detroit Red Wings. "They just kept asking, 'What's up with the clock?' So, we decided to just get rid of that and go with something new."

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Neuvirth has carried minor-league swagger to Caps

Tuesday, 11.23.2010 / 4:03 PM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

NEWARK -- Rookie goalie Michal Neuvirth has been a lot of things for the Washington Capitals so far this season.

A surprise is not one of them.

"We know he can play," captain Alex Ovechkin said. "We trust him."

"He's had a lot of success down in the minors and it's a big transition to do it in the pros, but he's handled himself well," added defenseman Mike Green. "He's not a surprise to me at all."

Neuvirth joined the Capitals on a full-time basis this season after winning back-to-back championships in the American Hockey League for the Hershey Bears while his counterpart, Semyon Varlamov, was building himself an NHL resume.

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Humble Giroux states his case with on-ice production

Tuesday, 11.23.2010 / 11:09 AM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

PHILADELPHIA -- Claude Giroux offers only a wishy-washy answer when he's asked to tell precisely when his confidence started to grow, precisely when he figured out he could have some serious success at the NHL level.

"At the end of the season last year it just started clicking," is all Giroux offers. "Since then we haven't stopped."

Giroux uses the plural we because he wants to include his teammates, but the Flyers' run to the Stanley Cup Final this past June and their successful first quarter this season has as much to do with Giroux as it does with anyone else in that dressing room.

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Last year's disappointment at root of Price's success

Tuesday, 11.23.2010 / 10:46 AM / Player Profiles

Arpon Basu - Managing Editor LNH.com

MONTREAL – While Jaroslav Halak was charming the entire hockey world this past spring by hoisting the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens on his back and leading them to the Eastern Conference Finals, no one had a better seat from which to watch the coronation than Carey Price.

The one who was once considered a can't-miss prospect, who was supposed to be the latest in a long line of dominant goalies for the Canadiens, was sitting on the bench as an unheralded goalie from Slovakia stole his spotlight and the hearts of the team's fans.

The chosen one had become the forgotten one.

When all was said and done -- after Montreal's Cinderella run ended against Philadelphia in the Eastern Conference Finals -- it was clear to everyone that the Canadiens would be forced to choose between the playoff hero and the supposedly washed-up 22-year-old wunderkind.
Most everyone in the hockey world figured it would be Price, and not Halak, who would be forced to change addresses during the summer.

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Lidstrom shows he's still got it at age 40

Friday, 11.19.2010 / 12:43 PM / Player Profiles

Brian Hedger - NHL.com Correspondent

DETROIT -- Crazy as it may seem now, there were some last spring who thought Detroit Red Wings star defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom should call it quits.
 
After getting off to a slower-than-usual start, Lidstrom was thought to be slowing as a skater and deteriorating in general as a player. Despite Detroit making back-to-back runs to the Stanley Cup Final the previous two seasons and Lidstrom playing for Sweden in the 2010 Winter Olympics, a growing segment thought his rock-solid consistency on the Wings' blue line was diminishing with his increasing age.
 
Regardless of Lidstrom's six Norris trophies and four Stanley Cups -- all with Detroit -- more than a few Wings fans called local radio stations saying he should think about retiring after the Wings were eliminated by San Jose in the second round of the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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Teammates know Stamkos is more than 'good player'

Friday, 11.19.2010 / 11:20 AM / Player Profiles

Dan Rosen - NHL.com Senior Writer

PHILADELPHIA -- Martin St. Louis didn't really know what else to say. At this point, when it comes to Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay's veteran forward is at a loss for words.

"Yeah, I know, he's a good player," St. Louis said after the Lightning won a wild one at Wells Fargo Center, 8-7.

That's it? That's all we get? A good player?

Stamkos has 19 goals and 35 points in 19 games. He's on pace for 82 goals this season.

We already know he's a good player, Marty.

"What else am I supposed to say?" St. Louis later said.

Then he winked, and that pretty much said it all.

Stamkos did something even he hasn't done yet Thursday, however. He recorded his first 5-point game in the NHL thanks to his second hat trick of the season and assists on two of Tampa's other five goals.

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