Dale Needs Six

This chase would have been so much different if the Sabres dressed Ryan Miller (Dale B.) for their game against Boston instead of Jocelyn Thibault (Box 24), especially since the game finished as a 3-0 shutout for the Buffalo team. So, four points went to the wayside in the Draft and Dale fell another point behind after the final whistle in Vancouver and now he has a 6-point deficit to recover on Sunday.

Dale B.			Chris
Mike Cammalleri		0	Brad Boyes		1
Ryan Miller		dnp	Thomas Vanek		3
Mark Streit		2	Tim Connolly		inj
Daymond Langkow		1	Henrik Sedin		0
Mattias Ohlund		inj

Chris made good use of that Sabres game, as Thomas Vanek (Chris) lit up the scoreboard with all three Buffalo goals. If Miller was to have got the shutout, we would be talking a little bit more confidently that we'd have a good shootout on Sunday for the third place money.

But our shootout stands at six. Dale has plenty of players to go for Sunday and Chris has Martin Biron (Chris) going with Philly today, but since the Flyers have clinched a playoff spot, it seems likely that he'll get rested instead of being risked for injury.

Dale B.			Chris
Patrick Sharp			Jonathan Toews
Brian Rolston			Mikko Koivu
Mike Ribeiro			Sergei Zubov		inj
Evgeni Malkin			Martin Biron
Braydon Coburn			Brad Boyes
Peter Budaj			Ed Jovanovski
Shane Doan

Another goaltending question mark will be Peter Budaj (Dale B.) possibly getting the start for Colorado, as they may try to save Jose Theodore (Clayton) for the playoffs as well. Dale does have one of the best scorers in the NHL going today in Evgeni Malkin (Dale B.), who is a threat to put a bunch of points on the board at any given time.

If Dale manages to snake back six points on Chris on Sunday, then we may want to talk about a tie-breaker, quickly. The first tie-breaker is goals scored, which will be the only tie-breaker we need, as Dale owns Chris in that department, 268-209. There isn't much question about that one.