WOOT! Finally got to meet the Captain. Got my poster finally completed (made the dang thing 3 years ago and was missing Grats and Donor). The Sandbar is a really unique lil place, could be a great hangout. Unfortunately the service and food was subpar, I was severely displeased (the manager apologized profusely for the poor quality… apparently they were’nt prepared for sooo many Yoties to show up) they were understaffed and a horrible guy on fryer duty. Enough said about that experience.

All the usual suspects were there except Scott and Kir, but a very large crowd of other Yotie fans (probably triple the normal showing I would estimate). My brother was in town from Ducks territory and quite impressed with how the Yotes provide us with such unique items (Jovo bobblehead! lol) and such a great social opportunity with our players. I won tickets! WOOT! and he wants to come back for a game! We may convert another Duck to Yotie-ism! Has anyone figured out the dimensions of the bandwagon we’re gonna need yet?

Tomorrow night we take on the Wild… Bally and Mules will be in home territory (as well as being the team we stole Z from). Hopefully the Mueller and Ballard family and friends (all rockin the brick n white, I hope) will get to see their boyz create serious havoc amongst the Wild.

The Wild have been having problems in goal…and on their front lines with Gabby, Koivu and Demi having health issues. But the other WildChilds have been picking up much of the slack. Voros, Veilleux, and Foy have been an unexpected trio of point producers and should be watched carefully.

With 4 straight victories against partially struggling teams (Ducks, Kings x2, Leafs), the Yotes have to be careful not to be too high goin in to Wild territory. The keys to winning this one will be, the shut down guys, the scoring committee MUST show up, discipline and a solid net effort, as usual. When all of these things are present I would put our Yotes up against any team right now.

It will be interesting to see if we continue to ride the hot goalie (the more starts Bryz has, the better, at this point) I think it will be interesting to see if our Breezy can go 8 or so games at a stretch (with the small breaks we’ve been having between games this hasn’t been a problem). But since we will be on a fairly nasty road tour we should expect to see Telly get a start or 2 in the next 14 days. I hope he does well when he gets his opportunities.

I wasn’t quite sure how to write this one up. Total euphoria makes a blogger tend to wax lyrically. But I will try very hard to be honest about this one.

It takes a committee. I’ve said it before. To achieve a game like this, it takes a hell of a lot from every…single…body… on the ice.

Raycroft started in goal. We ran him out within the first 8 minutes. With Dwin scoring in the first 4 minutes and Mules 2 minutes later, Raycroft got yanked quick. Trust me when I say McCabe never saw Dwin comin until it was too late. Raycroft was positioned for the shooter (trusting McC to cover his back…Raycroft gets burned for his trust). On the Big PM’s goal, Ray stops Z’s shot but puts the rebound out there for Mules to pop, so that was on him. 2 - 0 Yotes  But reason to pull him so early? I didn’t think so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73xShb9tow4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFtw0kmhvg 

It takes a lot to make Vesa Toskala look like a rookie. This guy was a superb Coyote killer in the past. The Leafs manage to make Tos look horrible during the first minutes of his entry into the game. The Dawgs smell blood right away. The Yotes were on a mission. With HNIC in town, there was no way the boys were gonna get shown up in their own house (there is a lot of pride and determination wearing the brick and white these days). Coming off 3 winning games, riding a super hot goalie and feeding off the Canadian hype, our boys were locked and loaded.

My heart sank when Vesa skated onto the ice. One of our worst nemesis from the last 2 seasons, was taking the net. I began to pray that the 2 early goals could be enuff and that if we could just keep them contained, we could walk away with a win. Oh, me of little faith. Rhino gives Toskala a good old fashioned desert welcome and nails him in the first 20 seconds. 3 - 0 Yotes That is when I took a real good look at the team we were facing rather than the hype of an Big 6, Canadian giant. This TO team refused to block shots, refused to get in anyones face, refused to battle for loose pucks and sure as hell wasn’t entering any foot races to get to any pucks. I settled down and started hoping we wouldn’t take our foot off the gas instead.

At this point it becomes obvious that the Leafs need a wake up and Darcy Tucker takes on our Carcillo (we shall call this notion Carcillo-cide).

Carci looks little and isn’t billed as a heavyweight but… he takes on Tucker like a MAC truck on PCP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8f9SE7W5Gk

After the Tucker beat down, the Yotes slowed down and took a quick look too. Feet stopped movin, TO won a couple puck battles and so TO inevitably scored. Not pretty or highlight worthy but they got on the board (they didn’t look very happy about it… no rejoicing or arm raising and only a smile or two) and they woke us back up.

The scoring committee voted to have Dmo get the next one (appeared to be Ziggy but was announced later as Dmo’s) Morris copped is 300th point! woo hoo! Givin extra love to DMo for being the Phoenix Coyotes Booster Club sponsored player this season too. 4 - 1 Yotes. The period ends and a jubilant set of desert warriors leave the ice with the exhortations of their adoring fans ringing in their ears.

In the second period we come out the same way as the first, scrappin and yappin. We nail Toskala again in the first 2 minutes. The BigKids Dwin and Hanzal combine with the shootist Vbrat for a ripper and make the game 5 - 1 Yotes.

Finally, during the mid point of the second and all of the third Vesa’s instincts take over and he pretty much single handedly keeps us off the board (added to the fact that our foot comes off the pedal just a wee bit… not enough to let the Leafs back into the game though). The Leafs, an original 6 team, were a total disappointment. They have size, they have talent, they have stars, they have Toskala but they lack heart, committment and buyin to a system. The Coyotes basically walked into their kitchen and to quote our resident snowman ‘found out where mama hid the cookies’. They raided the jar early and often.

Apparently the Leaf’s Bell hasn’t been paying attention to the Who’s Who in the desert brawling directory because he takes on our very own Weller. We know how often Wellie has walked away from most taunts and taps…not last night. Apparently Bell tripped Wellie’s pisstivity switch and Craig beat the flyin snot outta him (much like the Fedoruk match).

No contest. Wellie wins. Poor Bell, stripped, flipped and whipped!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj1ueHDUQcU

The rest of the period Toskala jumps on everything he can reach, TO gets a wee bit of life and we ease up and start looking for easy holes while protecting our zone. But both goalies have shut the gates for the period and neither team can generate a goal.

The last period the Leafs apparently figure, since they can’t score on us they might as well beat on us. Bell (having learned not to mess w/ Weller) tees up the really tired Carcillo. Carci is game and gives it his best shot but after 50 minutes of play and a pretty big bout against Tucker, our boy gets taken down…not beaten…simply out of gas.

We get some really nice chances (oh Hanzal! you were RIGHT THERE! Hanzal misses several beautiful chances at Toskala as does York) The puck decides we’ve had enuff breaks, it’s Toskala’s turn for some luck.

The game ends with 13 Coyotes with a point. Zero Coyotes in the minus. Ziggy 9 - 2 FO wins. Jovo with another very good game! (I am still waiting to declare that I was right about him having his best season in years but he is certainly on his way to it now). Carcillo in no danger of losin his 1st place status in the PIM stakes. On a 4 game win streak and we’re hovering above .500. Thanks Maple Leafs…come again…anytime…we’ll leave the lamp lit for ya.

~photos from BTinAZ~ as usual the Hip Check paparazzi had it goin on! see the rest:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302501@N02/sets/72157603285172080/

If there was an ounce of doubt in anyone’s mind, last night dispelled it. Ilya Bryzgalov is a #1 goaltender.

Last night, in spite of the emotional impact of returning to his former home, Bryz stood on his head and basically dominated this game. Interesting twist by the Ducks to put Bryz’s replacement, young Jonas Hiller in net. (sorta old guard vs new guard sorta thing). But the tribute montage was apparently all class and brought the former Duck to tears - ” I have different feelings, you know, especially when they played (the tribute) on the Jumbotron,” Bryzgalov said. “I was crying a little bit. My eyes were a little bit wet. I want to say thank you to everybody - the fans, my former teammates, the whole organization.”

We looked friggin fantastic. The effort was simply awesome. It turned into a dogfight of epic proportions. Folks, you really had to see this one to appreciate it fully. We beat the Ducks 2 of the 3 contests so far and man were they determined not to have it happen again and especially not with Bryz in our net.

This was a game had plenty of thrills but it was the quality of the goals scored, that made the night. From Mules drawing first blood (on a shot made possible by Vbrat’s heroic, falling down pass  and Bally’s dramatic spin-o-rama) through Vbrat’s (hackey sack style footwork, turn and burn) goal to the third period, 1 minute left, PP, tying goal. Again by Vbrat with a quick thinking pickup of a Carcillo fanned attempt (damn! Vbrat has the turn and burn move down pat in this game)

Not to take anything away from Anaheim who used Pronger to maximum advantage last night with 2 huge shots from out in BFE.

(only a player with a serious death wish would try to stop a full windup Pronger special) but their first goal was a flukey miscommunication between Boynton and Bryz where Boynk actually puts the puck in past his goalie. (Boynk spends much of the night making up for it and tappin his goalie on the pads in mea culpa fashion).  Jonas Hiller is going to be special, no doubt in my mind. The kid stood firm through all the pressure and kept the Ducks in the game til the end.

The shootout would be more like shooting lessons as the Yotes show the Ducks and young Jonas how its done. Getzlaf shot first and Bryz pulls out all the stops with a sliding tip off save. Then our Captain (despite what had to be a very sore wrist after being slashed by a hatchet chop earlier by Pronger) gives young Jonas the Donor head shake special and beats the snot out of him. Poor Perry got stoned straight up by Bryz on his run

and then Vbrat took another highlight reel worthy run with some nifty puck movement and a pretty backhand move to beat Hiller again for the win.

During one of the intermissions, Grant Fuhr is asked about coaching Breezy… I hope Fuhr leaves most of Bryz’s playing habits alone. The Tretriak influence shows through solidly and the kid doesn’t need a lot of changing. His stick handling choices away from the net could be polished up but other than that I don’t see much to coach the kid about.

We get another NHL star! Vbrat! http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?page=ThreeStarsPage&service=page  (the Anaheim press should really stop bein such homers, their stars were: Pronger, Vrbata and Perry…when it shoulda been Vbrat, Bryz and Pronger)

Check out the highlights: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=223521&hubname=nhl

Best recap: http://ducks.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=Recap&seas=20072008>ype=2&gnum=318

~photos from Reed Saxon/Associated Press, Ghetty Images  and from Anaheimducks.com~

I am still not a big fan of back to back games. But I will admit it feels much better to be the winning side of one of these sessions.

The Kings came down to the desert and received another lesson in underestimating the Coyotes. It’s amazing to see the Yotes deliver 60 full minutes of hockey. Even better is seeing the support they get from Bryz.

Bryz’s temp pads look better than the Quacker gear.

We actually found a way around Barbie this time. (sorry Kings fans but Barbie is  just too much more fun to use than Labarbra) With scoring from what I would have thought of as several unlikely suspects. York delivered the first payload in the first period, fighting off Brad Stuart to put the puck in behind Barbie. Then the lil princeling Moulson tied it up 1 -1. It was a really evil sharp angle shot from out by the circles that I’m sure Bryz would like to call do voers for but not to worry, the rest of the Yoties scoring committee was ready to go to work.

The second period Yorkie came through first again with his second goal of the night (2 goals for basically only 4 sogs! nice work Yorkie) , followed by Kapi to put the game at a real nice 3 - 1 Yotes. And of course the piece de resistance from the Captain in the third when he basically stops short, fakes Barbie out of position and plops an in-close wrister right under him. 4 - 1 Yotes for the final. Chalupa time! (does anyone actually use their ticket to go get the free chalupa from Taco Bell?)

Ziggy again shows that he is a master craftsman as he went 11 - 8 in the dots (many of them crucial wins on the PK)  combined with Rhino and his 7 - 2 FO wins played a very important part in our puck possession time.

We did give up too many PPs though, a lot of hooking and holding crap that could have hurt us badly against a Kings team that is in the top standings for PP delivery. A lot of collisions

   (yeah some of them probably weren’t on purpose) a couple of coincidental penalties that didn’t hurt us but show a wee discipline issue.

(Say what you will about Wellie bein a brawler…which he isn’t…the guy can go toe-to-toe but more often walks away and doesn’t put the team win in jeopardy). The PK was phenomenal, rather than our former 50% kill rate, we stopped all 6 King’s PPs and actually delivered on one of our own chances.

Does all this brouhaha mean we’re out of the woods? Hell no! It just means that we can compete, that we have a chance, if we do all the little things, like actually capitalizing on a PP, w/ Bryz in net and the PK on a roll, penalty trouble just got a lil bit less hairy(if we stay outta the box it will be easier to stay in the game) . If the scoring committee keeps their act together and at least 3 members show up each game we can be contenders and there may yet be a sea of white in the desert in 08.

Interesting tidbit since the Webprowlin section isn’t ready for prime time yet - http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20071122/SPORTS/711220069

~photos from BTinAZ ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302501@N02/sets/72157603273440949/

EDIT: I forgot to hit the publish button so this one is very late… (mea culpa)

Desert Dog Day in LA? Hey! It felt like some sort of holiday to me. Of course no one celebrated it but Coyotes fans. And man did we celebrate. The newly aquired Russian Nethound arrived in time for the team meeting, donned his (really ugly) Duck paraphanalia, our brick and white uni with a blank white helmet and proceeded to announce his presence with a glorious 1 - 0 SHUTOUT.

Our boys came out of the gate like a slavering horde. Shots were flying and forechecks were being delivered like DHL on Suns time. Hockeywebcasts.com had the game  for those of us blocked out… a little choppy but servicable.

We look to be back on track and playin the Gretzky system again w/ hard pressure through the neutral (we fell victim to some strange turnover bug ourselves in the first period) But the second and third period was all Coyotes as far as momentum, speed, quality shots and net coverage.

We had a little bit of penalty trouble (with 2 delay of games by Z and TQ … I HATE that penalty, almost as much as the instigator one) Jovo first and last penalties of the night (the second of which was so dumb I betcha he doesn’t even believe he did it).

The story of the night is really a battle of the goalies. Jason Labarbra is no slouch between the pipes. He denied many, many choice opportunities for the Yotes. But ultimately his team made one error too many and the Captain played opportunist on the 5 on 3 PP to put us up by 1 - 0.

Bryz was solid and calm, talkin to his D and pretty much looking like he’s always been back there. The Kings have a top notch PP but were continually frustrated by the furious acrobatics of the newest Coyote. It wasn’t a flawless performance by any means, the guy barely got to the rink on time, suited up and basically stepped into the net barely warmed up. I am sure there were nerves but he never let them see him sweat. Bryz gave up a few more rebounds than I am used to seeing from him (you guys remember how much I complained in the past that he just seems to swallow pucks) funny how I seem to like it now. He came up huge in the first period and then again in the last few minutes when the desperate Kings were trying to capitalize on Jovo’s high stick… even pulling Barbie for the 6 on 4 didn’t help them as Bryz and the PK completed the shutout behind a superb effort by Ziggy.

This is the team I didn’t dare dream about having this season! I know its only one game but man, what a difference.

~photo from Noah Graham/Kings~

As everyone and their great Aunt Fanny surely knows by now… we got a new goalie. OK, let me rephrase that. We got the goalie nearly every Yote fan coveted that wasn’t already a starter for another team.

Yep we were the winners of the Ilya Bryzgalov waiver classic!

We have a gen-U-wine Russian Nethound in our pack folks! Bryz or Breezy as many fans have already named him became a Coyote on Saturday morning around 10-ish. As soon as the Eklund (E5) went up I started to hope (Ek doesn’t always get them right but I still began to hope) I also scoured the rest of the usual suspect sites looking for confirmation and (bless his lil bald head) The Panger came through in his blog! I woulda started a one woman bacchanalia but wine gives me a headache. I did however add a spoonful of Baileys to my morning coffee and thanked the hockey gods for their largess. Slainte!

Unsuprisingly the internet lit up with discussion about the aquisition. What was surprising is that none of it was negative (there are usually an equal amount of positive wellwishers as negative player bashers). Not this time. It seams that Breezy is beloved by his old fans enuff to bring them out in droves to wish him well in his new adventure away from the Pond. Well there was one naysayer in the comment section of Pang’s blog who said Burke needed to get rid of Bryz due to the other Duckies not liking him (paraphrased) . But of course we expected at least one person to try to piss in our Cheerios, so we will ignore him.

Speculation was rife on why the clearly-ready-to-take-the-next-step goalie was ‘really’ let go of. But I prefer to believe BBurke when he says he had to take the high road for his much respected and dedicated backup. And since he promised Bryz a chance to get a starting spot somewhere he had to honor his word. Now words of honor aside BB probably had a few non-altruistic reasons for his actions too. Do the words ‘return of the semi-retired duo’ ring any chords with you people? Nieds of course is already part of the Ducks money figures but should Teemu decide to return, there may be a slight dent in the available dough that Burke has left to spend. (with Nieds skating again and Tee spotted at the Pond, one has to wonder if December or January may see a drastic change in the Duck’s lineup)

I don’t really care why Burke did it. Nor do I care why the other three teams ahead of us, passed on the lovable Russian. I am just thrilled to have him in the pack. There is a fresh Breeze blowin across the desert tonight and it feels good.

This one is short. It covers the 2nd and 3rd portion of the SJ series debacle. I would call it the Dead in an Aquarium series, except after rewatching the games I found it wasn’t such a horror story at all. More like a tailend melt down.

Both games saw each team battling hard through the first 2 periods. We just went on a mental shut down in the third period of each of those games. We completely lost our forecheckers. We completely forgot how to block shots not to mention how to pur a puck on the net. We completely lost our discipline and gave a team that needed no help, an even better chance at our goalies by being shorthanded repeatedly.

That being said, this is not the team we are used to seeing. Many fans went into a total tizzy. The lamentations were everywhere. (from WG sux and needs to be fired, put Sjo back in the press box, our goalies need to be in the AHL and of course the inevitable Jovo is killing our blue line). But gentle readers this series was not a total loss…

We managed to be at the nadir of our season when the opportunity came up to snag the goalie most of us have wanted all year. (I would thank the Sharks for helping us achieve this, except…they never thanked us for the beating we gave them last Xmas nor did they thank us for the subsequent winning streak that the demoralizing 8 - 0 whippin sent them on)

Now we need to put this series behind us. Start with a clean slate if you will. It was embarassing but it didn’t keep our boys from bouncing back hard in their very next game. We left the series 7 -10 - 0 but check back in a week or so, I think you will be mightily surprised by the new numbers for the season. Perhaps even some where well over the .500 mark we so jealously covet at the moment. Don promised us a thrilling ride, with lots of hills and dips, I think the man is delivering his promises.

Now on to the really neat part of the Sharks visit. It was our beloved fin person, BTinAZ’s backstage pass night. Someone, (who shall remain nameless)  managed to snag our girl a 3ft advertising board featuring her beloved Pretty Patty, Big Joe and Cheech. Andie got it signed by all three players that night and her old school Marleau #14 jersey too. Marleau is definitely a fan’s dream (he recognised the old number on the jersey and signed it accordingly, while signing the poster with his new number 12). Gotta hand it to the guy, he has an eye for details. To top off a tremendous fan night for herself, our enterprising Andie pulled her Swedish National jersey from her bag o’ stuff and snagged Tjarnqvist and Tellqvist signatures on it to join Sjo and Forseberg’s sigs.

Not to be undone of course, I got some whomping good pics of our boys, dropped some pats/hugs of comfort and a few words of praise on them, snagged some signatures and a pic with not only my favorite Yotie but one w/ his brother Milan too. Not a bad way to end an otherwise horrible series eh? A true Coyotes fan takes her joy where she can find it.

Pics:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302501@N02/sets/72157603216468603/

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/9302501@N02/sets/72157603216519823/

Yeah, yeah… know I haven’t blogged the other 2 Sharks games yet. I think we know how depressed I am (spending the game w/ my favorite ok maybe my only true oceanically inclined friend BTinAZ) although I did meet Heather from the NHLArena, who is an awesomely nice fin person (visiting for the game). And Bally did give us a beautimous BBB (patent still pending) and Hanzal and Wellie did set up together in the crease (kinda looked like two virgin sacrifices in there) although havin that tall wall didn’t stop the totally-must-be-an-alien-from-the-planet-Netguardia Nabakov from shutting us down again. And Bt and I did have one of the best fan experiences evah! after the game… but I’m gonna skip that for now and get to the buzz…

It seems and has been confirmed by multiple sources that our favorite Russian comedian/netminder has been waived. Oh yeah people, Ilya Bryzgalov has been waived per a gentleman’s agreement tendered to his agent by Burkie. Bryz has had a great run w/ the Quacks and deserves a starting chance according to the Duck’s GM. He’s right, Bryz was tested pretty tough during the season and during the playoffs of late and has shown that there is talent behind the sweet attitude and the extreme calm that have been his stock in trade.

Of course we are all anxiously awaiting the news tomorrow morning about whether our intrepid GM DM puts a bid in for the little Russian pillow and whether the other 3 teams behind us in the loss percentage race give the netminder a pass or not.

The contenders w/ the worse percentage as of waiver time are Washington = Kolzig/Johnson, Buffalo = Miller/Thibault,  Edmonton = Roloson/Garon, Phoenix = Telly/Auld and while Bryz is an upgrade over all the backups listed in my opinion, it may not appear to be by enough of a margin to some of those teams. Things those teams have to ponder are cap space, available position, whether bringin in a guy so specifically ready to start into another back up role might sour him on your team? Oh yeah…and that pesky UFA situation they would find themselves in at season’s end.

For Phoenix he’s a starter immediately no consideration neccessary. We have the cap space, if he walks at the end we haven’t risked any assets and we certainly have the position (TBA is on a 2way and can be moved right away) Abby, Lenny and Tjorjy will have to shuffle over to make room for TBA if we pick up Bryz…probably leaving Lenny/Abby the odd men out and either bounced or down to the Sundogs. Have heard rumors that Abby is sticking it out in the AHL despite offers from Europe, that might change in a hurry if the alternative is the CHL.

So cross your fingers fellow Yoties. Breezy won’t be the savior of this team by any means…we have too many holes. But when the kids get back to playin NHL hockey (as opposed to 3 games of imitating fish food), Bryz may be able to help the boyz out much better than what we have seen so far from our gatekeepers.

I interrupt your regularly scheduled game entry for this wth? moment…(the game sucked anyway folks)

Josh ‘bambam’ Gratton has been placed on waivers according to several sources. OUCH! We love Grats dontchaknow. The guy has been the single most source of grit, heart, energy and rock solid enforcement we have had in a long while. Of course Grats does lack offensive production value and rarely plays very many minutes but right now this team has plenty of grit and no shortage of pugilists who can also either score (Wellie and Carcillo and even Doan when a lesson becomes especially neccessary) or play defense (Ballard, Morris and Boynton even occasionally Jovo). This makes our favorite protector not only redundant but actually expendable. Most likely the little scrapper will get picked up, the last thing SA Rampage needs is another fighter (hell the whole team threw down last week) but with Pete Vandemeer likely to be suspended for his part in the WWF style brawl last week, maybe they do need an enforcer for awhile. But what are we going to do for a heavy weight now? We will miss you BamBam. I can only hope Maloney has some nice tricks up his sleeve regarding these shuffles…and that he can pull them off with his usual je nais c’est quoi.

On to the suspension part of this post. Nick Boynton has been suspended for his go round in the last few minutes of the Shark redux on Monday. The suspension is an easy call for Colin Campbell  as Boynk broke the NHL rule in half and stomped on the pieces. The rule states “thou shalt not be deemed an instigator in the final five minutes of regulation or any time in overtime or thou shalt automatically be suspended and your coach fined $10,000. ” (A player’s fine goes to the Players’ Emergency Assistance Fund while the coach’s fine goes to the NHL Foundation. )

What this means is that Brendan Bell is activated from SA to fill Boynk’s skates. But given BBell’s ready status it also may mean that another team may try to snag him. Probably not on the way up (due to the emergency call up clause in the CBA), but almost certainly on the way back to SA  and so Grats goes to SA to make (possibly permanent?) room on the roster.

I am sooo crazed right now. This was not how I wanted moves to be made for the adjustment of the roster. But we have had a majorly crazy season so far anyway…whats a couple more totally unexpected scenarios?

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/1113yotesfine.html

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/JimGintonio/10632

Some other folks got into Campbell’s doghouse too and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving pig..I mean moron…I mean guy.

http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=343188&page=NewsPage&service=page

REINPRECHT NAMED NHL’S SECOND STAR OF THE WEEK

Monday, November 12, 2007

GLENDALE, ARIZONA — The National Hockey League announced today that Phoenix Coyotes forward Steven Reinprecht was named the NHL’s ‘Second Star’ for the week ending November 11. Tampa Bay Lightning center Vincent Lecavalier was named the first star while San Jose Sharks center Jeremy Roenick was named the third star.

Reinprecht recorded seven points (4-3-7), tied for third among scorers for the week as Phoenix won two of three games for the week. On Nov. 7, Reinprecht recorded one goal and two assists in a 6-5 overtime win over the Anaheim Ducks. The next night he recorded two goals and one assist in a 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars and he closed the week by scoring the lone goal in a 4-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks, Nov. 10. For the season, Reinprecht is second on the Coyotes with 13 points (5-8-13).

DON’T FORGET! TONIGHT : The Phoenix Coyotes conclude their two-game road trip against the San Jose Sharks tonight at the HP Pavilion Center. The game time is set for 8:30 p.m. and can be seen on Fox Sports Net Arizona or heard on The FAN AM 1060.