Stuart managed to bump his lead back up to 14 points going into Sunday's action, thanks to Huet, and he ended the night up 6-3 on Clayton. Some of Clayton's hotter players were blanked and thus kept him away from taking back more points against the lead. Stuart didn't fare much better, only two players registered points, but like it was mentioned before, one of them was a shutout for 4 points.
Here's a look at the match-up from last night.
| Stuart | Clayton | ||||
| Miroslav Satan |  | 0 | Daniel Alfredsson |  | 0 |
| Tom Poti |  | 2 | Johan Holmqvist |  | dnp |
| Cristobel Huet | | 4 | Alexei Kovalev |  | 0 |
| Cam Ward |  | 0 | Alexander Ovechkin | | 2 |
| Vincent Lecavalier |  | 0 | Eric Staal | | 0 |
| Robert Lang |  | 0 | Frank Kaberle | | 0 |
| Erik Johnson |  | 1 | |||
It doesn't look too good for Clayton on Sunday, however. He'll be down a couple of active bodies in the final day of Week Twenty-Seven.
| Stuart | Clayton | ||||
| Ryan Whitney |  | Chris Drury |  | ||
| Pavel Datsyuk |  | Dan Girardi | | ||
| Brian Rafalski | | Marek Zidlicky |  | ||
| Ryan Suter | | Marian Gaborik |  | ||
| Jochen Hecht |  | Jose Theodore |  | ||
| Derek Roy | | Johan Holmqvist | | ||
| Nikolai Zherdev |  | ||||
| Robert Lang | | ||||
The two hottest teams for Stuart are going for him on Sunday. Both Buffalo and Detroit have been very good for him through the season, but having both Derek Roy (Stuart) and Pavel Datsyuk (Stuart) have been great for their NHL clubs. Clayton will need another big win for Jose Theodore (Clayton) to possibly keep his head afloat today, while a good game from the Rangers will also be needed.
In the race for third place, Dale B. only managed to pull one point out of the bag, although it looked like he was going to get some major separation until the third period of the Chicago/St. Louis game.
| Dale B. | Chris | ||||
| Christoph Schubert | | 0 | Jason Spezza | | 0 |
| Mike Cammalleri |  | 1 | Wade Redden | | 0 |
| Mike Ribeiro | | 3 | Martin Gerber | | 0 |
| Mark Streit | | inj | Sergei Zubov | | inj |
| Bill Guerin | | 0 | Martin Biron |  | dnp |
| Braydon Coburn | | 0 | Joe Corvo | | 0 |
| Patrick Sharp | | 1 | Brad Boyes | | 3 |
| Daymond Langkow |  | 0 | Jonathan Toews | | 1 |
Before the third period, Dale had opened up a 5-1 lead on Chris, but then St. Louis started to come back on Chicago's 4-0 lead after two. Both Brad Boyes (Chris) and Paul Kariya (Dennis) both started to light the lamp for the Blues, Boyes ended up with three points and Kariya with two. Boyes' three closed the gap to 5-4 and that's the way the night had finished.
Dale finished the night two points up on Chris going into Sunday, but the schedule is certainly in Dale's favour, having his goalies active (one starting for sure) and one extra player game as well.
| Dale B. | Chris | ||||
| Evgeni Malkin | | Mikko Koivu | | ||
| Brian Rolston | | Thomas Vanek | | ||
| Peter Budaj | | Jonathan Toews | | ||
| Ryan Miller | | Ed Jovanovski |  | ||
| Mike Ribeiro | | ||||
| Shane Doan | | ||||
| Daymond Langkow | | ||||
The scariest player on the ice today for either team will be Evgeni Malkin (Dale B.), he's been on a tear at home, scoring 12 points (7G, 5A) in his last six home games. Malkin has also enjoyed success against the Rangers at home. In their last meeting in Pittsburgh in January, Malkin recorded a hat-trick.
Chris will need a big day from his $10 million man in Thomas Vanek (Chris). Vanek does have 32 markers this season, so he hasn't been a big bust, but I'm sure the Oilers were thinking 40 for the money they offered him in the summer.
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