Thursday, April 02, 2009

Thursday's Preview (11 Nights Left)

There hasn't been any shifting of positions last week and with a weaker set of games last night, there wasn't a great deal of points made up on anyone. A point here and a point there, or even, no points at all. It was just that kind of night for the top seven, which remained the top seven, since the bottom two actually made up a couple points on the lead and third place.

Eight games on the schedule for Thursday night and there are 38 skater games among the top seven and everyone except for Jeremy has a goalie start tonight (supposedly) as well. Let's have a quick peek at the table, shall we?



Clayton
Peter
John B.
Benson
Marcus
John P.
Jeremy
Points
738
-9
-18
-24
-30
-35
-35
Games
9+1
5+1
6+1
4+1
7+1
4+1
3
OTT/BOS
Blake Wheeler, F
Marc Savard, F
Dennis Wideman, D
Phil Kessel, F
Tim Thomas, G
None
None


Brian Elliot, G
Patrice Bergeron, F


Zdeno Chara, D





MTL/NYI
Alex Kovalev, F
None
None
Mark Streit, D
Roman Hamrlik, D
None
None
NYR/CAR
Eric Staal, F
None
Ray Whitney, F
None
Nik Antropov, F
Joni Pitkanen, D
None


Dan Girardi, D











STL/DET
None
None
Keith Tkachuk, F
Johan Franzen, F
Pavel Datsyuk, F
Marian Hossa, F
None






Manny Legace, G
Ty Conklin, G
Jiri Hudler, F



CAL/DAL
None
Marty Turco, G
Daymond Langkow, F
Mike Ribeiro, F
Mike Cammalleri, F
None
Jarome Iginla, F








Todd Bertuzzi, F
Curtis Glencross, F



SAN/EDM
Joe Thornton, F
Ales Hemsky, F
Evgeni Nabokov, G
None
None
Ryane Clowe, F
Milan Michalek, F
ANA/VAN
Kevin Bieksa, D
Scott Niedermayer, D
Ryan Getzlaf, F
None
None
Daniel Sedin, F
None


Mattias Ohlund, D








Henrik Sedin, F



Sami Salo, D








Roberto Luongo, G

LOS/PHO
Dustin Brown, F
Drew Doughty, D
Anze Kopitar, F
None
Kyle Quincey, D
None
Alex Frolov, F










Ed Jovanovski, D


Keith Yandle, D

There is no game tonight, which features a player on each of the top seven teams. I think once it went up to seven, there was a lot less of a chance that that will ever feature.

The busiest game tonight will be the Ducks visiting the Canucks, as there are seven skater games and a start there, mainly taken up by Clayton and John P., who have three players each in the game.

Clayton has the busiest team tonight, with 9 skaters and a goalie going. It's a good night to try and pad the lead on Peter, who only has 5 skaters and a goalie going.

And there you have it. A busy Thursday!

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