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The bad news is Danny Briere is injured.
The good news for the Philadelphia Flyers is it's not another concussion.
Briere, who has 10 goals and 15 assists this season, was out of the lineup Friday night because of a bruised hand, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said.
The 34-year-old forward was listed as day Football jerseys to day.
The Flyers have been hit hard by concussions this season, including captain Chris Pronger who is out for the season, and Sean Couturier and Brayden Schenn who are currently sidelined. Leading scorer Claude Giroux has just returned to the lineup after missing four games with a concussion.
PANTHERS FEEL THE PAIN
The Florida Panthers could use a few days off -- they have had five forwards injured during the past four games.
The latest was Stephen Weiss, who sustained an upper-body injury Thursday against the Ottawa Senators when he collided with Chris Neil, knocking him out of a Friday night game against Boston.
Weiss joined Jack Skille (shoulder), Sean Bergenheim (groin), Mikael Samuelsson (tailbone) and Marco Sturm (possible concussion) among those who were injured in recent games. As well, Scottie Upshall and Marcel Goc have been on injured reserve with long-term injuries.
NAGGING INJURY FOR PEVERLEY
Boston Bruins forward Rich Peverley was taken out of the lineup for a game Friday against the Florida Panthers because of an undisclosed injury.
The Bruins want to give Peverley a break from an injury that he will have to cope with for the rest of the season, Bruins coach Claude Julien said Friday.
Peverley has six goals and 19 assists in 30 games.
"It's a little nagging injury that doesn't stop him from playing, but sometimes rest does a lot of good," Julien said.
BRIEFLY
The San Jose Sharks recalled Antero Niittymaki on Friday from the AHL, giving the Sharks three goalies on their roster. Cheap jersyes wholesale Cheap jersyes wholesale Niittymaki, who has been recovering from off-season hip surgery, joins fellow goalies Antti Niemi and Thomas Greiss ... Winger Martin Havlat visited the Sharks dressing room Friday, two days after surgery to repair a torn tendon in his left hamstring. He will be sidelined up to eight weeks.
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The Panthers went ahead 1-0 on Bergenheim’s first-period goal.
The Panthers went ahead 1-0 on Bergenheim’s first-period goal. Ed Jovanovski’s shot went off the end boards Football jerseys and bounced out to Bergenheim, whose shot beat Ward at 4:16. It was Bergenheim’s third goal in two games and fifth in nine contests. Jovanovski had gone 16 games without a point.
The Hurricanes tied it at 1 when Gleason scored at 18:38 with a wrist shot from above the left circle that went between Theodore’s pads. It was Gleason’s first goal since Nov. 17, 2010 — a span of 97 games.
NOTES: Panthers 30-year-old center Greg Rallo was called up from San Antonio of the AHL on Saturday and made his NHL debut. Rallo is the second 30-year-old player to debut with the Panthers this season. Bracken Kearns played his first NHL game on Oct. 20 against Buffalo. … Bergenheim left the game in the second period because of a lower body injury and didn’t return. … D Erik Gudbranson returned to the Panthers lineup after missing two games with a lower body injury. … Hurricanes C Jeff Skinner, the team’s leading scorer, missed his fourth straight game because of a concussion.
NHL Network will get a jump on the New Year with a number of new enhancements including a new network logo, re-branded highlight show and new ad campaign. The Net will also begin broadcasting from Citizens Bank Park? in anticipation of the 2012 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on Dec. 29, providing fans more with more hours of original programming around the annual event than ever before.
On December 26, NHL Network will officially Cheap jersyes wholesale switch over to its new logo (pictured below) and launch NHL Tonight – an evolution of the 10 p.m. edition of NHL On the Fly – airing seven days a week. Kathryn Tappen, host of NHL Tonight, will be joined by a rotating lineup of hockey insiders and analysts that will serve fans with every highlight, every game and every night from the League. NHL Tonight will re-air the following morning for fans to catch up on all the games from the previous night. For its first week, NHL Tonight will air immediately following the live coverage of the IIHF World Junior games. Otherwise, NHL Tonight will air nightly at 10 p.m. NHL on the Fly will continue to air nightly from 7-10 p.m.
The national advertising campaign for NHL Tonight also will debut on Dec. 26, positioning the show as the source for all of the night's highlights from around the NHL using the new show slogan "Every Highlight. Every Game. Every Night." The TV spot features NHL players watching NHL Tonight in their everyday life - at home, in arenas, working out, taping sticks, on the road and relaxing in hotel rooms. Including the new NHL Network tagline "Where the NHL Gets Hockey," the campaign aptly features a number of the NHL's biggest names including New Jersey's Zach Parise, Carolina's Jeff Skinner, Toronto's Dion Phaneuf, Montreal's Brian Gionta, Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos, Vancouver's Ryan Kesler, Anaheim's Corey Perry, Chicago's Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, Washington's Alex Ovechkin, and New York's Brad Richards and Henrik Lundqvist.
The NHL Tonight advertising campaign will run across the US and Canada, and includes TV, online, radio, print, in-arena, mobile and social media executions.
On Dec. 29, NHL Network will set up stage in Philadelphia to provide fans with daily coverage live from the site of the 2012 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic – adding up to more than 25 hours of original programming around the event. From the transformation process turning the famed ballpark into an ice rink, to daily press conferences and weather reports provided in collaboration with the Weather Channel?, NHL Network becomes the destination for fans to keep apprised of everything happening in Citizens Park Bank? leading up to and following the fifth annual outdoor game.
The Hurricanes tied it at 1 when Gleason scored at 18:38 with a wrist shot from above the left circle that went between Theodore’s pads. It was Gleason’s first goal since Nov. 17, 2010 — a span of 97 games.
NOTES: Panthers 30-year-old center Greg Rallo was called up from San Antonio of the AHL on Saturday and made his NHL debut. Rallo is the second 30-year-old player to debut with the Panthers this season. Bracken Kearns played his first NHL game on Oct. 20 against Buffalo. … Bergenheim left the game in the second period because of a lower body injury and didn’t return. … D Erik Gudbranson returned to the Panthers lineup after missing two games with a lower body injury. … Hurricanes C Jeff Skinner, the team’s leading scorer, missed his fourth straight game because of a concussion.
NHL Network will get a jump on the New Year with a number of new enhancements including a new network logo, re-branded highlight show and new ad campaign. The Net will also begin broadcasting from Citizens Bank Park? in anticipation of the 2012 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on Dec. 29, providing fans more with more hours of original programming around the annual event than ever before.
On December 26, NHL Network will officially Cheap jersyes wholesale switch over to its new logo (pictured below) and launch NHL Tonight – an evolution of the 10 p.m. edition of NHL On the Fly – airing seven days a week. Kathryn Tappen, host of NHL Tonight, will be joined by a rotating lineup of hockey insiders and analysts that will serve fans with every highlight, every game and every night from the League. NHL Tonight will re-air the following morning for fans to catch up on all the games from the previous night. For its first week, NHL Tonight will air immediately following the live coverage of the IIHF World Junior games. Otherwise, NHL Tonight will air nightly at 10 p.m. NHL on the Fly will continue to air nightly from 7-10 p.m.
The national advertising campaign for NHL Tonight also will debut on Dec. 26, positioning the show as the source for all of the night's highlights from around the NHL using the new show slogan "Every Highlight. Every Game. Every Night." The TV spot features NHL players watching NHL Tonight in their everyday life - at home, in arenas, working out, taping sticks, on the road and relaxing in hotel rooms. Including the new NHL Network tagline "Where the NHL Gets Hockey," the campaign aptly features a number of the NHL's biggest names including New Jersey's Zach Parise, Carolina's Jeff Skinner, Toronto's Dion Phaneuf, Montreal's Brian Gionta, Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos, Vancouver's Ryan Kesler, Anaheim's Corey Perry, Chicago's Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, Washington's Alex Ovechkin, and New York's Brad Richards and Henrik Lundqvist.
The NHL Tonight advertising campaign will run across the US and Canada, and includes TV, online, radio, print, in-arena, mobile and social media executions.
On Dec. 29, NHL Network will set up stage in Philadelphia to provide fans with daily coverage live from the site of the 2012 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic – adding up to more than 25 hours of original programming around the event. From the transformation process turning the famed ballpark into an ice rink, to daily press conferences and weather reports provided in collaboration with the Weather Channel?, NHL Network becomes the destination for fans to keep apprised of everything happening in Citizens Park Bank? leading up to and following the fifth annual outdoor game.
It’s also no accident that the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins
it’s no secret that the Panthers have sorely missed sidelined centre Marcel Goc (concussion) because of his faceoff skills.
It’s also no accident that the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins, featuring centers Patrice Bergeron, Chris Kelly, Rich Peverley and Gregory Campbell are first in the NHL in faceoff percentage (55.2).
Or that five of the top six teams in the Western Conference (Chicago, Minnesota, San Jose, Vancouver and Detroit) are among the top seven faceoff percentage leaders in the league.
Blackhawks centre Jonathan Toews, Wholesale nfl jerseys Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler, San Jose’s Joe Thornton, along with Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Carolina’s Eric Staal are considered the game’s best faceoff practitioners.
Is there an art or skill to winning faceoffs or do ‘cheaters’ prosper by prematurely jumping the draw?
“If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying,” said Weiss with a smile.
Weiss said after awhile you get to know the tendencies of opposing centers and former Panthers centre Brian Skrudland, one of the craftier faceoff practitioners, said he even studied how linesmen dropped the puck.
“First of all, winning faceoffs creates offensive chances and you decide where it’s going,” said Skrudland, the Panthers director of player personnel. “You’re not chasing and you get to save energy.”
Skrudland joked he used to buy linesmen beers after games so maybe, “he’d accidentally throw it in the corner for you.”
Veteran NHL linesman Pierre Racicot scoffed at Skudland’s off-ice strategy but he did name him as one of the game’s best faceoff cheaters.
“Skrudland was the master back when faceoffs were fast and furious and were more a swordfight,” said Racicot, a 19-year linesman and Weston resident. “His signature move was whacking the other guy’s stick, take him out of the play and kick the puck backward.”
The linesmen handle all faceoffs except at the start of periods and after goals, which the referee oversees.
Racicot said he will chase any player Cheap mlb jerseys who makes contact with his opponent’s stick before the puck hits the ice or if a player tries to jockey for a better angle on the puck drop.
“We call it the ‘home-team sweep,’ “ Racicot said. “The home team gets to put their stick down last on the ice so he’ll try to spin out of position and barrel through. That’s when I’ll pause for a fraction of a second so he doesn’t gain an advantage.
“I’ll tell the guys, ‘Sticks down, don’t make contact, square and fair.’ “
Time of possession is just as critical to NHL success as it is in the NFL.
It’s also no accident that the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins, featuring centers Patrice Bergeron, Chris Kelly, Rich Peverley and Gregory Campbell are first in the NHL in faceoff percentage (55.2).
Or that five of the top six teams in the Western Conference (Chicago, Minnesota, San Jose, Vancouver and Detroit) are among the top seven faceoff percentage leaders in the league.
Blackhawks centre Jonathan Toews, Wholesale nfl jerseys Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin and Ryan Kesler, San Jose’s Joe Thornton, along with Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby and Carolina’s Eric Staal are considered the game’s best faceoff practitioners.
Is there an art or skill to winning faceoffs or do ‘cheaters’ prosper by prematurely jumping the draw?
“If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying,” said Weiss with a smile.
Weiss said after awhile you get to know the tendencies of opposing centers and former Panthers centre Brian Skrudland, one of the craftier faceoff practitioners, said he even studied how linesmen dropped the puck.
“First of all, winning faceoffs creates offensive chances and you decide where it’s going,” said Skrudland, the Panthers director of player personnel. “You’re not chasing and you get to save energy.”
Skrudland joked he used to buy linesmen beers after games so maybe, “he’d accidentally throw it in the corner for you.”
Veteran NHL linesman Pierre Racicot scoffed at Skudland’s off-ice strategy but he did name him as one of the game’s best faceoff cheaters.
“Skrudland was the master back when faceoffs were fast and furious and were more a swordfight,” said Racicot, a 19-year linesman and Weston resident. “His signature move was whacking the other guy’s stick, take him out of the play and kick the puck backward.”
The linesmen handle all faceoffs except at the start of periods and after goals, which the referee oversees.
Racicot said he will chase any player Cheap mlb jerseys who makes contact with his opponent’s stick before the puck hits the ice or if a player tries to jockey for a better angle on the puck drop.
“We call it the ‘home-team sweep,’ “ Racicot said. “The home team gets to put their stick down last on the ice so he’ll try to spin out of position and barrel through. That’s when I’ll pause for a fraction of a second so he doesn’t gain an advantage.
“I’ll tell the guys, ‘Sticks down, don’t make contact, square and fair.’ “
Time of possession is just as critical to NHL success as it is in the NFL.
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