Daily Links for Monday, February 6
Blogs Source:Die By The Blade - February 6 06:03 AM EST
With the football season coming to a finish yesterday, now the major sports outlets can turn their attention back to the only sport that matters, hockey. And just in time for the trade deadline, too. Miller by the numbers - Sabres Edge Myers making up for lost time - The Buffalo News Injuries Moved Sabres Gaustad To Wing - WGR 550 Almost all systems go for Sabres - The Buffalo News Channel 2 Partners With MSG: Countdown 2 Faceoff - wgrz.com The real NHL trading game - The Globe and Mail Weekend rumblings: Canes decisions, Wings wish list, Jagr's extension talks - ESPN Zach Parise To The Minnesota Wild: Too Easy? - SBNation.com Apologies from 30 NHL teams - THN Congratulations to Canadiens’ Scott Gomez on the one-year anniversary of his last goal - Puck Daddy Jokinen has big (Mac) game - NHL.com
Heres some numerology on Ryan Miller in the wake of his 235th career win Saturday night on Long Island, which allowed him to break Dominik Hasek's franchise record.
Tyler Myers missed 19 games with a broken wrist this season so there's no way he's going to come close to the offensive totals of his first two years. But the Buffalo Sabres defenseman knows he can do more on the score sheet.
If Paul Gaustad wanted to come back early from his upper body injury, he would have to move to LW.
Aside from not being able to score, the Sabres' recent games are pretty much what they envisioned for the season.
MSG Networks and the Buffalo Sabres announced Sunday that they will make the February 11th Sabres vs. Lightning game available to fans who have been shutout of watching their favorite team after Time Warner Cable dropped MSG and MSG+ from their channel lineup back on January 1st.
Eric Duhatschek examines the tough decisions facing general managers in his weekly NHL notebook column
Pierre LeBrun updates the latest trade rumblings.
Zach Parise is really good at hockey. He doesn't have a contract next season, and the Minnesota Wild could use him. He's from Minnesota. This seems too obvious, doesn't it?
Every NHL team has something to be sorry for so Adam Proteau does it for them in this week's column.
Yesterday was a big day for football fans, as Super Bowl XLVI happened. But February 5, 2012 is arguably almost as big a day for puckheads: one year ago today, Montreal Canadiens' centre Scott Gomez scored his last NHL goal.
A trip to McDonald's was just what Calgary's Olli Jokinen needed to snap a lengthy goal-scoring drought by scoring in the Flames' win on Friday.
