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I think some the hardest purchases to make is for ‘Dad’! They always respond what do I et for the guy that has everything . Well maybe these options may help clear up that issue. If your has a fav NHL team and wants to do  a room for watching his games here is a great addition for it

This clock about 12 inches by 24 inches and sits flush with the wall. The numbers are digital LED’s and it also tells the date and temperature. Other teams can be viewd by clicking the link. Thids item runs for 149.99. If you are looking for a more traditional style clock for the room than this clock

is another great option. This Hi Definition NHL shield Clock is about 12 inches in height and and 8 inches in width

as well it will be the first game he will be a LEAF. Can he be what the team to create a consistent offensive presence?

I question that, as a leaf fan I hope so, but is he game ready and has he tested his shoulder with real contact?

I have a hard believing that considering he is almost a month ahead of schedule in his return. If he is ready then the Leafs will have a definite weapon added to the power play and a player who knows the net well while 5 on 5….

Although the problems have been the defense with the Leafs I still have a hard time believing he will be the answer, which is disheartening considering the price tag on getting him…we shall see what happens against the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight at the ACC!

My forwards are as follows.

Rick Nash Columbus Blue Jackets, Shane Doan Phoenix Coyotes

Jonathan Toews (injured) Black Hawks

Jason Spezza (injurred) Ottawa Senators

Scott Hartnell Philadelphia Flyers

Patrick Kane Chicago BlackHawks

Jay Bouwmeester Calgary Flames

Francois Beauchmin Toronto Maple Leafs

Rob Blake San Jose Sharks

Kimmo Timonen Philadelphia Flyers

And My goalies are Marc Andre-Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and Steve Mason of the Columbus Blue Jackets..;

right Now I am in fifth spot but have been moving up.. If only Toews wasn’t injured and the same with Spezza I would be better I am curious to your team setup and waht you think of mine..Let me know and keep me updated on how you do!

I thought he would actually be a backer of the Basillie purchase but maybe gretzky isn’t a fan of RIM, Maybe he’s an Iphone user..LOL

Who knows!

(CP) – 13 hours ago

The Washington Capitals lost superstar Alex Ovechkin on Sunday, and then they lost the game.

Raffi Torres scored his second goal of the third period with 23 seconds left and R.J. Umberger got his second of the game 1:45 into overtime as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat Washington 5-4.

“He stepped up for sure,” the Blue Jackets’ Rick Nash said of Torres. “That first one was huge. Good battle down low, good wrap-around.”

Ovechkin left the game with an injury in the second period, but his teammates tried to use his absence for motivation in the third period.

“It was kind of a rallying cry,” said Quintin Laing, who scored his first goal of the season in the third. “We wanted to prove this team isn’t about one guy, it’s about a team, and we wanted to show people we can come back.”

Columbus led 2-1 going into the final period, but fell behind after Brooks Laich scored twice in a span of 2:08 midway through the third. Torres answered Laich’s two goals by tying the game 3-3 with a wraparound at 13:36.

Laing regained the lead for Washington with 3:26 left in the third, but Torres tied it again in the final minute.

“I thought we played a pretty good third,” Capitals centre Brendan Morrison said. “We rallied and did a lot of good things offensively, and then we just go and shoot ourselves in the foot. It is frustrating because it was a game we should have won.”

Elsewhere in the NHL it was: N.Y. Rangers 1 Boston 0; San Jose 5 Carolina 1; and Vancouver 3 Colorado 0.

At Washington, Ovechkin was involved in a shoving match in front of the Blue Jackets bench barely a minute into the second period. A few minutes later, the Russian got tangled up with Torres and fell to the ice. After he got up, he grimaced and gingerly skated off the ice, heading straight to the locker-room.

After the game, Ovechkin declined to comment on the nature of the injury, other than calling it “upper body.”

“I can’t tell you how I got hurt,” he said. “It’s day-to-day.”

Nash scored the Blue Jackets’ first goal at the five-minute mark of the second period. He sped past defenceman Mike Green and then put a move on goalie Jose Theodore for his seventh goal in seven career games against Washington.

Nash also had two assists. He set up Umberger’s overtime winner, and had a hand in a fluke play that led to Umberger’s first.

On a power play, Nash dumped the puck into the Capitals zone down the right side. As Theodore went behind the net to play the puck, it took a strange bounce off the boards and ended up in front of the goal, where Umberger put it into the empty net.

“It’s a big win, but we’ve still got a lot of work to do,” Nash said. “When we play on the road, we can’t be taking too many penalties. We made some defensive errors when the game was tied. Just got to sharpen up those areas.”

Ovechkin missed all of the late action after leaving the game at the 6:10 mark of the second period, but he was in the middle of things as the second period started.

During a break in play barely a minute into the period, Ovechkin was bumped by Jason Chimera. Ovechkin responded with a shove and players from both teams skated over to the scrum. Ovechkin, Chimera and the Blue Jackets’ Jared Boll all received minors for roughing, and Boll was also issued a misconduct.

Ovechkin downplayed the incident afterward.

“It was just a moment of the game,” Ovechkin said. “Nothing happened. He just hit me, I hit him, there was a little battle there, nothing happened.”

Chimera said the scuffle was a result of a hard hit by Ovechkin earlier in the game.

“He kind of (threw) a punch at me, and then Boller kind of got into it and it was a mess. I hope he’s all right,” Chimera said. “There was no intent to hurt somebody out there. He just hit me pretty hard that one shift, so I just let him know ‘You’re not going to hit me like that all game,’ so I pushed him a bit, he punched me back in the face, and a couple shifts later he’s off the ice, so I hope he’s all right.”

Canucks 3 Avalanche 0

At Vancouver, Mason Raymond and Ryan Kesler each had a goal and an assist, and Andrew Raycroft made 18 saves to lead the Canucks over Colorado.

Tanner Glass rounded out the scoring midway through the third period as the Canucks won for the sixth time in their last seven home games.

Craig Anderson made 17 saves as the Western Conference-leading Avalanche lost consecutive games in regulation for the first time this season.

Rangers 1 Bruins 0

At New York, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 29 shots for his 150th NHL victory and 21st career shutout, while Marian Gaborik returned from injury and scored for the fourth straight game.

The Rangers returned home from a disappointing road trip in which they went 0-2 without Gaborik, beating the stingy Bruins.

Sharks 5 Hurricanes 1

At Raleigh, N.C., Kent Huskins and Brad Staubitz scored 1:22 apart in the second period and Evgeni Nabokov made 25 saves as San Jose won its fifth straight.

Douglas Murray, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Patrick Marleau also scored for the Pacific Division-leading Sharks. San Jose got three goals from defencemen in their first win in Carolina since Oct. 24, 2000.

Copyright © 2009 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

The packers since Favre left haven’t been able to pull out those hard wins which were common occurrence off the arm of Brett Favre. And now the Packers have a schedule were they are mainly facing teams with winning records.

Maybe the fans realized this or rather realized that they were able to see yet another Favre win and started to cheer his win for the former GB Pack American boy! Because come the end of the game they gave Favre a raucous cheer that paled to the jeers to which he entered the game to.
These cheers represented all the years he gave them and the Super Bowls which he provided off his arm. You may hate he’s gone but you can never hate the man who played the way Brett Favre can!

Ginn became the first player in NFL history to score two kickoff-return touchdowns of 100 or more yards in the same game, the deciding factor in the Dolphins’ 30-25 win at the Meadowlands. He’s the first player to return two kickoffs for a touchdown in the same quarter since 1967.

Ginn’s runs provided a last word for the verbal skirmishes between the Dolphins and Jets this season, but certainly had Jets fans wondering why Gang Green continued kicking to him.

“We wanted to kick it in the middle and corral him,” kicker Jay Feely said. “We had opportunities, we just didn’t make the play.”

Ginn’s first touchdown return, a 100-yard dash, came off a kick that was misplaced and low, by Feely’s own account. Ginn, a wide receiver who lost his starting spot after dropping several passes in Miami‘s loss to the Saints last week, cut to his left and then broke for the right sideline, scoring with 10:24 to go in the third quarter.

“We had lost leverage on the first one when he was out on the edge,” linebacker Larry Izzo said. “On the second one, we had six or seven guys, including myself, to get him down and we didn’t get it done there.”

The second return was a master class in making something out of nothing. Ginn stopped at the 15-yard line, where blockers and would-be tacklers formed a wall. He danced past grabs by Izzo and Ryan Fowler and waited for an opening.

“I felt like I was trapped, you know, and I just tried to use my feet and play off my blocks,” Ginn said of the 101-yard return. “My motive was to get to the outside, and once I got that opening, I turn on those burners and I’m gone.”

The Jets had last given up a touchdown on a kickoff return in 2007. During special teams coach Mike Westhoff‘s nine-year tenure, the Jets had given up three before Sunday.

While the decision to kick the ball deep in Ginn’s territory two more times was Westhoff’s, Rex Ryan said he would not second-guess his special teams coach.

“I’ve got the best special teams coach in the league,” Ryan said. “I will go to the grave, so to speak, defending what he says. I truly believe in him. If he says it’s best to kick it deep, I trust him.”

An article I enjoyed by Kristie Ackert
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

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