Down to Eight

Clayton's managed to outplay Stuart's team in man-games, but only narrowly outscored him 3-2 in the night.

Stuart			Clayton
Miroslav Satan		1	Chris Drury		1
Cam Ward		0	Dan Girardi		1
Ryan Suter		1	Patrik Elias		0
Robert Lang		0	Eric Staal		1
			Frank Kaberle		0
			Daniel Alfredsson		inj
			Marek Zidlicky		dnp
			Johan Holmqvist		dnp

An injury, a scratch and a back-up didn't play for Clayton on Friday night, which brought the man-games down to a 5-3 margin and Cam Ward (Stuart) didn't get the win in the only start between the two teams. So, it wasn't a very memorable evening for either side, but the lead did manage to shrink just a little.

Now, going into Saturday, we have a great match-up of games as the schedule has seven games in the league.

Stuart			Clayton
Nikolai Zherdev			Erik Johnson
Jochen Hecht			Jason Blake
Derek Roy			Alexei Kovalev
Tom Poti			Alexander Ovechkin
Cristobel Huet
Vincent Lecavalier		inj

Stuart won't have Vincent Lecavalier (Stuart) going for him tonight, due to a shoulder injury, which requires surgery. Washington has a chance to win the Southeast Division, which should mean that Cristobel Huet (Stuart) should get the start for the Caps. Clayton doesn't have much for slouches either, however. Between his three forwards, Clayton has received just over 100 goals this season. This should make for a huge night before the finale on Sunday.