1,101
Consecutive Dallas Stars games, regular season and playoffs, broadcast on local television in the Dallas/Fort Worth market. The streak comes to an end with tomorrow's game against the
Colorado Avalanche, marking the first time since April 4, 1997, that a Stars game has been unavailable on local TV in the Dallas area.
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Goals by Maxime Talbot, the Pittsburgh Penguins' playoff hero last spring, through 32 games of an injury-filled season that didn't start until December. Talbot's hopes of improving that total dropped at the trade deadline when Alexei Ponikarovsky was acquired from Toronto to take his place on the second line with Evgeni Malkin, where Talbot played much of last year.
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83
Points by the Los Angeles Kings through 66 games this season, four more than they compiled all of last season when they finished second last in the Western Conference, ahead of only the Colorado Avalanche.
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THEY SAID IT
"He was just having fun playing. Mike Grier just yelled down, Tyler, in and out, in and out,' and I think he was getting in and out before some players were getting in."
Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff, discussing Tyler Myers's four-point night against the Dallas Stars on Wednesday, catapulting the Buffalo defenceman into a second-place tie with John Tavares for the rookie scoring lead behind Colorado's Matt Duchene
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"We're in a do-or-die situation."
The Ducks' Ryan Getzlaf falls back on a hoary cliché after Anaheim's 11th-hour push for a playoff spot ground to a halt with three consecutive losses coming out of the Olympic break
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"We are a desperate team right now and we have to get back on track soon. With the situation now, our backs are against the wall."
Atlanta Thrashers' general manager Don Waddell, channelling Getzlaf over in the Eastern Conference, explains why his team called up Chris Chelios rather than a less experienced defenceman in its push to get back in the playoff hunt.