Great news about Martin St. Louis tonight. NHL.com writes that St. Louis traveled with the team to San Jose today and returned to practice with the team. He wore a full cage during the drills today at the HP Pavilion but there is no timetable yet to whether he’ll be back in the lineup tomorrow or on Friday in Colorado.
Here are your links for the week:
Your Lightning links:
- Mathieu Garon rides a hot streak into being the starting goalie for the Lightning (St. Petersburg Times)
- Late last week Cristodero wrote that Boucher hinted that Ohlund might not play this season (St. Petersburg Times)
- Brett Connolly pledges to put work ethic before skill. He also non-nonchalantly recalls squishing his hand as a kid, having 3 broken bones and needing surgical reconstruction to fix it (Vancouver Sun)
- Want to watch Brett Connolly at the WJC’s this year? NHL Network will be all medal-round games and five additional preliminary-round match-ups (NHL.com)
- It is fan-posted but do check out Cory Sznajder’s post on the Lightning OZ “Coke” Chart. Also check out Cory’s Hurricane blog the Shutdown Line
The rest of your links after the jump…
- Did you want to watch the Canada vs. Finland prelim game? TSN has that for you on TSN.ca
- A look at the Conacher family, which includes Lightning prospect Cory Conacher who plays in Norfolk and Shane Conacher who plays OJHL (Burlington Post)
- Last week when the Flames were in town, Alex Tanguay laments his time playing for the Lightning. ” “I wish I could come back here and play a full year and show Tampa fans I’m a better player than I was the year I was here. This is my reality and I feel bad about it. I’d give anything back to get another shot at that year. It is what it is now. I’m just trying to learn from that experience and move on.” (Lightning Strikes)
- Even though we are in a holiday roster freeze, Lyle Richardson looks at the Lightning in his rumor focus at The Hockey News
Your links from around the NHL:
- Peter Forsberg admits that during the 2006 Olympics, the Swedes may have tanked a game against Slovakia to have an easier road to the gold medal (Denver Post)
- Randy Cunneyworth does not speak French and he is the interim coach for the Montreal Canadians. You can imagine that some Habs fans are having an issue with this. Puck Daddy looks at a few angles of his issue
- The Senators traded David Rundblad for Kyle Turris. The 6th Sens breaks down that trade and why writer Graeme Nichols says “I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time pumping the tires of a player who doesn’t play on the team that I support“
- Pierre LeBrun has his thoughts on who might host the Winter Classic next year. He’s thinking Washington, Detroit or Minnesota (ESPN)
- Why Colby Armstrong tried to hide his concussion and why he wasn’t able to (Puck Daddy)
- Jeremy Roenick on how the league needs player to help limit concussions. “We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.” (NHL.com)
- Ken Dryden on concussions. Great article but he lost me in the argument when he tried to tie in concussions and fighting in the NHL. Although a concussion can come from a fight, I think we can look at the players injured with a concussion now and admit that the majority didn’t come from a fight (Grantland)
- Sidney Crosby remains a priority for the Penguins. Shero confirms “We want him to be a Penguin for life. That’s the goal. Nothing has changed.” (TribLive Sports)
- Puck Daddy has a list of the 10 biggest trades of 2011
- Two friends who live in a suburb of Chicago got busted for illegally using water from a fire hydrant to make a backyard hockey rink (The Post Game)
- Elliotte Friedman’s 30 thoughts: What to do with Suter and Weber
- Michael Buble is a bit of a Canucks super fan. Today he signed a 1-day contract with the Canucks in order to skate with the team
- Though most Canucks feel that Messier should pay back the money he took, Messier is looking for additional monies unpaid by the Canucks. His case will get heard by an arbitrator in the spring (The Province)
- Puck the Media has possible leak of what the NHL network logo may look like
- The NHL celebrated its 94th birthday on Monday (NHL.com)
- And for a fun video this week, Puck Daddy has a video of the Sheffield Steelers (an Elite Ice Hockey team in England) recreating a Nickelback video
