Showing posts with label phoenix coyotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phoenix coyotes. Show all posts

Friday, November 13, 2009

Call Ripley's! Price Wins!


Three Stars:
1. Paul Bissonnette (1 goal, punching faces in)
2. Thomas Plekanec (3 assists)
3. Shaun Heshka (1 assist)


Final Score:
Montreal Canadiens: 4
Phoenix Coyotes: 2

Goalie Stats
Carey Price: SV: 18 SV%: .900 GA: 2
Ilya Bryzgalov: SV: 16 SV%: .842 GA: 3

Recap Notes:
- Holy crap Carey Price won a game!
- Price retired immediately after the game, saying he wanted to go out on a win
- Montreal media is super excited about the victory.... you beat the slumping Coyotes. From Phoenix. Where they don't want a team.
- You ever feel bad for Shane Doan just wasting away on this team?
- Penalties euthanized the 'Yotes... Montreal was 2-2 on the power play
- I bet Paul Bissonnette wishes he was still with the Penguins' AHL team
- Plekanec playing like he's good!
- Canadiens travel to Nashville Saturday for their next game

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Preview: Canadiens Visit the Desert


Montreal Canadiens Record: 8-10-0

Phoenix Coyotes Record: 10-7

Canadiens Record vs. Coyotes Since 2005: 3-0

Canadiens Likely Goalie: Carey Price... he's going to cancel out all the good things Miller did for my fantasy team...

Coyotes Likely Goalie: Ilya Bryzgalov

Canadiens Top Scorer: Michael Cammalleri (7 goals, 14 points, generoulsy listed as 5'9" on the Canadiens website)

Coyotes Top Scorer: Shane Doan (5 goals, 14 points)

Injury Report: The Coyotes are missing some D, which probably explains how much they've cooled off. Michalek (lower body) and Jovanovski (lower body) are both out.

The Canadiens are thrilled to be without Hal Gill. Or at least they should be.

Preview Notes: Montreal has lost three straight at home and is looking for a booster chair boost to see over their dashboards get back on track. They travel to Hamilton Kansas City Winnipeg Phoenix to meet the low scoring Coyotes.

The Coyotes have been a surprise this season in the standings and in the fact that the NHL still wants to keep a team in a place that can't get more than 6,000 fans per game. However, the putrid Carey Price may be in luck tonight if he gets the start, as the Coyotes have the inability to score. Although they will probably break out of that slump by facing Price.

Have fun watching this game Coyotes fans, because the team just may head back to Canada with the Canadiens!

Sunday, October 18, 2009


Three Stars:
1. Shane Doan
2. Scottie Upshall
3. Keith Yandle


Final Score:
Phoenix Coyotes: 4
Boston Bruins: 1

Goalie Stats
Ilya Bryzgalov (W): SV: 22 SV%: .957 GA: 1
Tim Thomas (L): SV: 32 SV%: .889 GA: 4

Recap Notes: The Bruins continued their streak of awful effort followed by great effort followed by awful effort as they fell to the Coyotes.

The Bruins once again seemed disinterested as soon as the Coyotes got their first goal.

The game was highlighted by scoring from defensemen. The Bruins lone goal was scored by Mark Stuart, his first of the season.

Three of the Coyotes four goals were scored by the blueliners, with Ed Jovanovski, Adrian Aucoin and Keith Yandle scoring goals. Captain Shane Doan had 3 assists.

Boston’s special teams were once again atrocious, going 0 for 2 on the power play and allowing Phoenix to score on 2 of their 4 power play opportunities. The Bruins were out shot 36 to 23. The Coyotes have won three in a row.

"Give Phoenix credit, they are playing extremely well and we just didn't have enough fight in us to counter that," Boston coach Claude Julien said. "They're hardworking from start to finish and they come at you hard."

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Preview: Bruins Head To The Desert.


Verses: Phoenix Coyotes

Boston Bruins Record: 3-3-0 (3rd in the Northeast)

Coyotes Record: 4-2-0 (1st in the Pacific)

Bruins Record vs. Coyotes Since 2005: Boston is 1-1-1

Bruins Likely Goalie: Tim Thomas

Coyotes Likely Goalie: Ilya Bryzgalov

Preview Notes: In their one meeting last season the Coyotes pulled out a 2-1 victory over the Bruins at home. At the beginning of the season this match up seemed like an easy win for the Bruins, however they have been very inconsistent and the Coyotes, supported by strong goal tending, have been an early season surprise.

The Bruins are coming off a strong effort against the Stars, but they followed their strong effort against the Hurricanes by getting blown out by the Ducks. Which Bruins team will show up today?

The Bruins power play has obviously been weak but they will need a strong effort against Bryzgalov, who is 4-1 this season with 2 shutouts, a 1.17 goals against average and a .952 save percentage.

Marc Savard has 7 points in the past 5 games and will need to keep up his strong play. It would also help if he would shoot instead of passing when he sees a wide open net.

With the Sabres on a hot streak the Bruins could really use a victory here to keep pace.