My Favorite/Least Favorite Trades

These are my favorites trades so far.
Team ---------Acquires ------------Team -------------Acquires
NYI --------Richard Zednik -----Washington -------07 2nd round pick
Canucks ----Brent Sopel -----------LA ------------07 or 08 2nd round pick,
-------------------------------------------------------08 4th rpund pick
Cancuks ---Bryan Smolinski ------Chicago ------07 2nd round pick
SJS ---------Bill Guerin ----------St Louis --------Ville Nieminen,
------------------------------------------------------07 1st-round pick,
------------------------------------------------------prospect Jay Barriball
Detroit ----Todd Bertuzzi--------- Florida --------Cond. 07 draft pick,
-----------------------------------------------------Cond. 08 2nd-round pick

Least Favorite
Team -------Acquires -----------Team ------------------Acquires
Preds------ Peter Forsberg ------Philly --------------Scottie Upshall,
---------------------------------------------------------Ryan Parent,
--------------------------------------------------------07 1st-round pick,
--------------------------------------------------------07 3rd-round pick
Philly ------Martin Biron --------Buffalo ------------07 2nd round pick
Ducks -------Brad May ---------Colorado -----------Michael Wall

Weekend Predication

Winners highlighted in Red, Losing team in Blue
Friday
Oilers vs Red Wings
Bruins vs Lightening
Ducks vs Star

Saturday
Caps vs Devils
Habs vs Isles
Sabres vs Sens
Jackets vs Rangers
Leafs vs Flyers
Canes vs Thrashers
Bruins vs Panthers
Red Wings vs Preds
Sharks vs Flames
Aves vs Kings

Sunday
Devils vs Caps
Oilers vs Wild
Blues vs Blackhawks
Canucks vs Star
Pens vs Lightening
Preds vs Jackets
Aves vs Ducks

Battle of the North west

Thanks to Colorados heroic playing against the Flames last night Vancouver is still in the lead of the NW divison and will have a chance to pull ahead tonight against the Chicago. The Ave's beat Calgary 7-5 last night and with a great effort from Milan Hejduk with the hat trick. Joe Sakic also got his 600th NHL career goal last night with a 40 foot slapshot with 10 seconds left in the game.

Other games last night, Anahiem beat the coyotes in OT, 5-4, Tampa beat Washingto 3-2 in a shot out, St. Louis gettin the winner. a good night for New York as the Isles defeated Boston 4-1 and the Rangers beat Carolina 4-1 aswell. Ohilly having a hard time and about to get harder with the loss of there captain, they lost 4-2 to Toronto, and finally Buffalo beat out the Oilers 2-1, in OT, Daniel Briere with the winning goal.

Those Sedins There Not Bad Eh?

Now I'm a hugh Canucks fan so I've seen this for quite some time now but others are still quite surprise to see what the twins can do. Swedish is a popular theme on the canucks and the Sedins prove is a good label to have.
Daniel is the predominate goal scored between the two with 23 goals but still with 32 assists for a total of 55 points to lead the team. Henrik has only 7 goals but has 46 assist, barely trailing his brother with 53 points. Henrik is 4th in the league for assists and seems to also been the more physical with 40 minutes in the sin bin. Daniel has a team high of 9 powerplay goals this season and 5 game winning goals. Last Night in Edmonton, Daniel got his 2nd carreer hat trick, with a total of 5 points, collecting on every goal by Vancouver. To finish the hat trick he intercepted a cross ice pass and dished the puck down the ice from the Canucks blueline into a vacant edmonton net. Henrik also recieved four assists on the night, on ever goal except his brothers empty netter. The Brother were the first and second stars of the game. It's not just last night that twins have capitalized on, Daniel has 9 points and Henrik has 8 points in the last 5 game. Since Christmas the boys have a combined 42 points. In fact there is only 13 out of the total played 54 that the twins have not recieved a point. They have the top two spots of the team for points, followed by Markus Naslund at 44 points.
Daniel wears number 22 and Henrik with number 33. If it weren't for their jerseys I'd be clueless as to which is which, even after watching them for all these years. Unless their resting on the bench, then the sticks position gives it away but off ice, no idea whose who.
The brother are amazing, knowing where each other are at all times, with out even looking they know where the others going to be. Their tape to tape passes are awesome and Daniel can pretty much hit anything out of mid-air with his great hand-eye coordination. They have perfected their slap pass and use it so well. Their skating style is perfect making them elite, hell their Swedish how could they not be Elite at this point. All I can really say is their fantastic to watch, to see what they can put together and how they can make an awesome goalie look desperate and defeated. Their the perfect pairing, to find two players that could worker better and are more productive is almost impossible. The emotion they bring to their play is what makes them the kind of players they are and it's the best thing to watch. Sure their now Canadian but they make hockey what it is, energetic, fun, exciting and addicting. I'd be lieing if I said I'm not a little jealous theres not a little Swedish in me. Or maybe there is, who knows, but I do know I love the Sedins.

Preds On the Prowl

Nashville is building themselves a sizeable lead and heading for the cup. Now there only 3 points up from Buffalo and 5 from Detroit and Anahiem but with three seemingly easy games headed there way that point spread could grow. Coming up against Pittsburgh, the Leafs and the kings, should be a breeze for the Preds and an easy way to putting them further ahead. Buffalo doesn't get an easier game until they take on the Oilers on the 15th.
Nashville's point leader is none other then Paul Kariya, shocker, with 58 points in 54 games, i'd say thats not to bad. Right behind Paul is Steve Sullivan with 55 points and behind him, Martin Erat with 47. Chris Mason has played the majority of the games this season starting 32 out of a possible 54 games, due to Vokouns injuries. In those 32 games has managed to pull in 44 points with 21 wins and 2 OTL. Tomas Vokoun who has been in for the Preds recent 7 out of 10 game winning streak has helped his team win 16 out of his 24 starts in net and only has 6 loses and 1 OTL on the season.
The Predators have a record of 37 14 3 with 77 points. They have the second highest Goals For,190, trailing only the Red Wings,202. Chris Mason is 4th in the league for shutouts with 5, and first in the NHL for save % at .929.
Now i'm not exactly of fan of Nashville and I don't follow them much but they definitly have proved they have what it takes, good players and two strong goaltenders to back them up.