A Pack of Pucks
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The trade deadline is coming up on Feb. 27 and already things have been heating up. Yesterday the Western Conference-leading Nashville Predators (it still feels weird saying that) acquired the right-foot-ailing Peter Forsberg from the Eastern Conference bottom dwelling Philadelphia Flyers. His contract is up and the Flyers need bodies so they had to move him. We'll see how much he actually contributes to the Preds' cup run.
Both my teams are well-situated for the home stretch. New Jersey is second in the East and leads the Atlantic by 5 points over a hot Pittsburgh squad who beat them tonight. The Pens have gotten at least one point in each of their last 15 games. Now that's impressive.
The Sharks are in 5th place in the West and are still chasing Anaheim for tops in the Pacific Division, only 3 points out now. However, they're only 6 points ahead of the 8th place team so they can't slow down. Losing tonight to Columbus (14th in the conference) is simply not acceptable. I'm wondering if they'll make any moves before the deadline. They need to score some goals (two consecutive shut-outs!) and having Marleau out with an injury is not helping things.
I caught the last period of the Wings game on Saturday. Zetterburg had a hat trick and could have gotten an empty-netter but he passed to Jason Williams who had put a break away empty-netter off the post a minute earlier and has been in a scoring funk lately. What unselfishness, I think the Wings are going to get on another roll and take over the No. 1 seed from the Preds. I think that Nashville mortgaged their future to try to win now and I am afraid that the foot they traded for isn't going to hold up.
ReplyDeleteI saw the highlights from that game. I'm starting to believe in the Wings this year too. I might have to start recording some of their games.
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