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Puck Headlines: Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals ready to go 'Patrick Division' on each other

By Greg Wyshynski

Here are your Evening Puck Headlines and Previews: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

Preview: Philadelphia Flyers at Washington Capitals (7 p.m. EST; TV: CN8, CSN). Hockey is so much better with animosity. The Capitals and Flyers don't get along much, including an interesting bit of back and forth between the coaches today. Japers has the preview for your review.

Preview: New Jersey Devils at Carolina Hurricanes (7 p.m. EST; TV: MSG). The Devils are 8-1-1 in their last 10 games against the Hurricanes. Meanwhile, Brandon Sutter watched his dad Brent take an embarrassing spill during the morning skate. Rookie.

Preview: Minnesota Wild at Boston Bruins (7 p.m. EST; TV: VS). Manny Fernandez was expected to start for the Bruins, and Aaron Ward was a game-time decision. Marian Gaborik's surgery was successful; only 14 more weeks to go!

• Jeff Carter gets the SI pop culture grid treatment. Favorite catchphrase? "'Whatever' ... It's kind of how I go through my day." Thanks, chick from "Clueless." [SI]

• Mats Sundin says without any doubt, hesitation or equivocation that he'll make his debut for the Vancouver Canucks against Edmonton this week. Or maybe against St. Louis. [Sportsnet]

Preview: Ottawa Senators at Buffalo Sabres (7 p.m. EST; TV: RSN, MSG). Sounds like somebody's been sharing water bottles again: Defensemen Toni Lydman and Teppo Numminen are battling the flu for the Sabres. But Craig Rivet should be back in the lineup for the first time in 11 games.  

Preview: Florida Panthers at Toronto Maple Leafs (7:30 p.m. EST; TV: TSN, FSFL). Tomas Kaberle on the potential jeering for Bryan McCabe's return to Toronto: "You always get two sides of crowds. Obviously, when you play here for so long, you're going to get booed anyway. But it doesn't really matter for him or for me."

Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at Detroit Red Wings (7:30 p.m. EST; TV: FSOH, FSD). The Wings are looking for their fourth win in a row. Steve Mason gets a chance to rebound from a rare stinker against Ty Conklin. The Jackets also optioned Nikita Filatov and Stefan Legein down to Syracuse; Filatov, after the world juniors he had, was a bit of a surprise.

• Dave Pagnotta and I discussed this over on TFP's radio show this afternoon, and Mirtle agrees: The Minnesota Wild might be better off letting Niklas Backstrom walk, keeping Josh Harding and spending well-saved money elsewhere. [From the Rink]

• The NHL spills the beans on its revamped skills competitions for the all-star game, a.k.a. how they'll decide overtime by 2020. [NHL]

Preview: Atlanta Thrashers at Pittsburgh Penguins (7:30 p.m. EST; TV: SS, FSPI). The Pens try to break out of their slump against a Thrashers team that should have Kari Lehtonen in net but will miss center Bryan Little, the key to their best offensive line this season. (That the name "Kovalchuk" is not on that line speaks volumes about their struggles.)

Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Nashville Predators (8 p.m. EST; TV: ALT). Pekka Rinne gets the call in goal against Andrew Raycroft. The Preds are going to sponsor an essay contest with the title "What Diversity Means To Me." Our submission will deal with how some teams win playoff rounds, and others don't. 

Preview: Chicago Blackhawks at Phoenix Coyotes (9 p.m. EST; TV: CSNC, FSAZ). No Patrick Kane tonight for Chicago, but he might give it a go in Denver.

Preview: Los Angeles Kings at Anaheim Ducks (10 p.m. EST; TV: FSPT). Randy Carlyle had a frank take on the Ducks fortunes near the midway point of their season: "We've found ways to give points away, and that cannot continue ... You have to be smart, and we have not been smart enough. That's a criticism that's pretty easy to make when you take the number of penalties that we take."

Preview: San Jose Sharks at Calgary Flames (10 p.m. EST; TV: CSBA, RSW). The Sharks are on a 7-1-4 streak, which is what qualifies as a slump for them. Could the Sharks send five players to the all-star game in Joe Thornton, Dan Boyle, Evgeni Nabokov, Patrick Marleau and Rob Blake ... and yet have none of them start?

• Here are your AHL Canadian all-stars. [AHL]

• Finally, the Iowa Chops ... ahem, "Baby Backs" want to spread their holiday cheer for you.

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  1. Curtis W
    1. Posted by Curtis W Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:32 pm EDT

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    Isn't it scary that a game in Atlanta for Pitts now could potentially be a challenge instead of a completely and utter blow out, would be interesting to see the results.
  2. pickle
    2. Posted by pickle Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:58 pm EDT

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    man that heffer at 1:05 of the baby backs video almost made me puke. i literally punched my screen cause of that fat broad.
    http://ducksinthepark.blogspot.com/
    go ducks!
  3. Gbdup
    3. Posted by Gbdup Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:40 pm EDT

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    why doesnt obama just go to the printing press and secretly print out a trillion and put it into govt saving and paying off debt etc what are the negative aspects of that?
  4. Derek Sutton
    4. Posted by Derek Sutton Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:42 pm EDT

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    Looks like she had a rack of baby backs, (or four), at Memphis Pig Out before that holiday cheer.
  5. Curtis W
    5. Posted by Curtis W Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:32 pm EDT

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    Thanks for being a moron and posting that here #4!
  6. Pavel
    6. Posted by Pavel Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:53 pm EDT

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    looks like they performed the "pronger kick" or maybe stomp...
  7. FinFan
    7. Posted by FinFan Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:35 pm EDT

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    Post #3 approved by Chris Pronger, though request that next time you elbow the coffee maker as well.
  8. Peeler
    8. Posted by Peeler Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:02 pm EDT

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    Sundin forgot how o tie his skates?or is he undecided which pad to put on first?
  9. MONKEY MAN
    9. Posted by MONKEY MAN Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:32 pm EDT

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    I just watched Ruutu bite Andrew Peters in the hand, and Peters got the penalty!
    there's going to be some roughhousing in period 2. I hope it turns into another line brawl.
  10. Ed K
    10. Posted by Ed K Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:21 pm EDT

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    Jarkko Ruutu bit Andrew Peters tonight. I cannot believe I saw that...
  11. Ed K
    11. Posted by Ed K Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:21 pm EDT

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    MONKEY MAN: See Spacek give Ruutu the ol' "How's your father" trick at the end of the period?
  12. Bubbabanjo
    12. Posted by Bubbabanjo Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    Wyshynski if I ever had anything bad to say about you....I stink. That is the most outstanding reportin I have ever seen. God where else would I get the Chop-etttes?
    Wow...............wow.................corn feed wimmin with real legs and a shape to em. Wow!
    I am a fan Iowa...............you have the best team I have ever seen. And hockey too! Wow!!!
    Wyshynski you are da man!
  13. Bubbabanjo
    13. Posted by Bubbabanjo Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    Man I lied the thick babe too............you dudes dont know bout big gals. I said it before....I like big butts and I can deny!
    The Baby Backs rule................dont change a thang! Or the thangs!
    Wyshynski you sure dont stink!
  14. Bubbabanjo
    14. Posted by Bubbabanjo Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    The Toronto Sun:
    Pittsburgh, PA
    Pens Plan finally revealed by Michel Therian
    At a properly run arena, "nothing is waste. Everything is a resource. It's just a matter of harvesting." With 40 home games, Therians's home arena has a lot of crap play to harvest. Martin Mittelstaedt writes in the Globe and Mail about Pittsburgh's's largest hockey-biogas installation. It seems like the perfect solution to a big problem; there are only so many places to put the 50 million tons of crappy play, as it is politely called, that is produced this year in Pittsburgh. Instead, it is fermented in a big tank outside of Mellon Arena, and the methane is collected and piped to a diesel generator to power Pittsburgh. The leftover liquids make a good fertilizer and the solids become bedding for the players.
    "It is about time; in Germany, biogas produces as much energy as a large nuclear plant; here we just build mountains of crap play and it just goes to waste" quoted Ray Shero
    HOW WILL IT WORK
    Mario Lemeuix announced funding for a $5-million anaerobic digestion power plant at Station Square in the hopes that it will suggest a way of dealing with some of the nearly 50 million tonnes of crap-play, or the stink residues from games, that the Penquins produced this year. If successful, Mr. Lemeiux's's farm will produce about 1.3 megawatts, enough to power about 800 typical homes.
    1. Locker Room: Slurry of crap play is washed and scraped from lockers and floors into a series of sewage pipes that run under the Mellon Arena. The manure is mixed with other food wastes from nachos and Iron City beer.
    2. DIGESTER: The crappy play is heated to around 107 degrees and kept at that level for the five days needed for the microbes to decompose the hockey dung. This process gives off methane gas, which bubbles through the slurry and is collected at the top.
    3. DIESEL GENERATOR: The crap gas runs to the generator, where it is burned to produce electricity to power the digester and the Mellon Arena itself, and to feed into the grid.
    4. SOLIDS SEPARATOR: Leftover liquids are used as fertilizer and the solids are strained to make a material to be used as bedding for the Pens players to sleep in. Which Mr Lemeiux hopes will motivate them to play better.
    Wyshynski needless to say that stinks!
  15. Runnin up on ya !
    15. Posted by Runnin up on ya ! Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:47 pm EDT

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    well lets all get on our knee's and thank Lord Sundin for gracing our presance.
    +1 Sundin
    -1 NHL fans
    NOT !
  16. N. Y. NIGHTMARE
    16. Posted by N. Y. NIGHTMARE Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:06 pm EDT

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    jeff carter is a bum
  17. MONKEY MAN
    17. Posted by MONKEY MAN Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:32 pm EDT

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    Ed K---
    he's definitely a marked man. he's lucky Chris Neil is skating with him tonight.
    I missed the Spacek encounter. need to bring the Labatts a little closer.
    I kind of hope Foligno scores to see if he'll jump!
  18. N. Y. NIGHTMARE
    18. Posted by N. Y. NIGHTMARE Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:06 pm EDT

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    so whos gonna be winging on the Sundin line???
  19. MONKEY MAN
    19. Posted by MONKEY MAN Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:32 pm EDT

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    I would think he'd run with Raymond and Jaffray. I think the way they play could produce some chemistry,
  20. Bubbabanjo
    20. Posted by Bubbabanjo Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:05 pm EDT

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    Man all these ads..........where's Bob with the natural male enhancement? I need larger thumbs!
    Wyshynski spam stinks!
  21. N. Y. NIGHTMARE
    21. Posted by N. Y. NIGHTMARE Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:06 pm EDT

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    yea but one of those freaks is a center. soooo....
  22. TippyTurtle
    22. Posted by TippyTurtle Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:44 pm EDT

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    Peters to ref: "Hey! He f--king bit me!"
    Does anyone know how the Wings did against Mason? This showdown might be the beginning of the end for the Wings. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
  23. Peeler
    23. Posted by Peeler Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:02 pm EDT

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    Good thing for Pitts they played that not-so-hot-Atlanta team....
  24. Tito "TD" O'Dell
    24. Posted by Tito "TD" O'Dell Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:36 pm EDT

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    @ Wysh - you should have printed that entire Sports Illustrated interview with Jeff Carter. I excerpted some of it, right here:
    SI: So Jeff, what is your take on Pennsylvania fans getting together and voting for three local players as the three starting forwards?
    Carter: [makes a W with his hands] Whatevs...don't tell me you're, like, one of those morons who thinks there will only be six guys per team. I'm pretty sure that with the Bruins leading their division, they'll find room for perennial All-Star, Martin St. Pierre.
    SI: Did you happen to see that performance by the Iowa Chops' Baby Backs? A bunch of Betty's, wouldn't you say?
    Carter: Umm....not! They're nothing but a bunch of full-on Monets, dude.
    SI: Monets?
    Carter: It's like a painting, see? From far away, they're OK, but up close, it's a big old mess.
    SI: Do you believe that the league should look into banning fighting?
    Carter: As if!! Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of hockey.
    SI: What do you say to those who accuse you of being the biggest puck hog since Marek Svatos or Peter Bondra?
    Carter: It's just like Hamlet said, "To thine own self be true."
    SI: Hamlet didn't say that.
    Carter: Well, I think I'd remember a Mel Gibson movie pretty accurately...duh...
    SI: But he didn't say that. That Polonius guy did.
    Jeff scratches his head....
    SI: I heard that when Gagne suffered his latest concussion, that you were the one who had to keep him conscious and engaged all night. What kinds of questions did you ask him?
    Carter: Questions? You mean, like, what's seven times seven?
    SI: No, I meant stuff he knows.
  25. firewing
    25. Posted by firewing Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:01 pm EDT

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    hey slap your monkey its the end alright the end of the blue jackets hot streak. lol lets see wings 3 your team of amatuers 0. so much for the end of the wings huh. you sound like a few hawks fans got a little to big for your britches. once again
    WINGS WIN, WINGS WIN, WINGS WIN
    HOWS THAT FOR AN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION
    its good to be the wings

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