DUCKS ARE THE MYSTERY TEAM.Byline: TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) TREPANY The best thing about the Stanley Cup Stanley Cup: see hockey, ice. Stanley Cup Trophy awarded annually to the winning team of the National Hockey League championship. Named for its donor, the Canadian governor-general Frederick Arthur Stanley, Lord Stanley of Preston playoffs is that the Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They play in the National Basketball Association. The team was founded in 1966, and has won six NBA Championships since. , or their equivalent, aren't in them. While the only excitement the NBA playoffs The NBA Playoffs is a four-round best-of-seven elimination tournament between sixteen teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conferences (called Divisions, pre-1970) of the National Basketball Association, ultimately determining the league champion. hold is who will be runner-up to the Bulls, no one can be really sure who will win this year's Stanley Cup. Sure, the Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Devils have won the Stanley Cup three times, in 1995, 2000, and 2003. and Philadelphia Flyers will be the teams most often mentioned as the favorites. But the field is wide open, as the past two seasons have shown. Cinderella teams can make an impact. Two years ago it was the New Jersey Devils. Last season, the Florida Panthers. It could be done again this year. But by whom? No one can say for sure, but a leading candidate is the Mighty Ducks because: They have Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne. Outside of Pittsburgh's line of Jaromir Jagr, Mario Lemieux and Ron Francis, no other team has a more dangerous combination. They have Guy Hebert in goal. No team wins it all without quality goaltending goal·tend·ing n. 1. Sports The act of protecting a goal, as in hockey and other such sports. 2. Basketball , as the Philadelphia Flyers can attest. Hebert, who finished with a 2.67 goals-against average and a .919 save percentage, has shown he is capable of putting together a Patrick Roy-like run. They are hot. After a 3-1 loss to the Kings on Feb. 20, they finished the regular season by going unbeaten in 20 of their final 23 games. But there are just as many reasons for them not to get past the second round: After Kariya and Selanne, they have no other real scoring threats. Selanne has 51 goals, Kariya 44. Third-best on the team is Steve Rucchin with 19. They struggled against the top two teams in the Western Conference, going winless in five meetings with Colorado (0-2-3), including a 4-3 loss on March 21, and were 1-3 against the Dallas Stars. Being on a hot streak going into the playoffs isn't a requirement for a postseason run. The Panthers were 6-14-3 heading into the playoffs last year but wound up in the Stanley Cup finals. Seeing the future: Predicting the first round: Colorado vs. Chicago: The Blackhawks lost a thrilling six-game series to the Avalanche last year, but it won't be close this year. Avalanche in five. Detroit vs. St. Louis: Scotty Bowman's way of preparing the Red Wings red wings see combretum platypetalum. for the playoffs was to bench goalie Chris Osgood for five straight games and keep people guessing if Osgood or Mike Vernon will be No. 1 in the playoffs. Won't matter against the Blues. Red Wings in six. Anaheim vs. Phoenix: Coyotes need more than Keith Tkachuk to win. Ducks in six. Dallas vs. Edmonton: The Stars are only legitimate threat to Avalanche's reign. Stars in four. New Jersey vs. Montreal: Canadiens squeak into playoffs but will be befuddled by Devils' neutral-zone trap. Devils in four. Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh: Flyers end Mario Lemieux's career. Flyers in five. Florida vs. New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York, New York, U.S.A. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). : Wayne Gretzky always turns it up for the playoffs. Rangers in seven. Buffalo vs. Ottawa: Question in Senators' first playoff visit isn't how many games they'll win but how many goals they'll get against Dominik Hasek. We give them three. Sabres in four. Brotherly love: Brothers Keith and Wayne Primeau dropped the gloves during a game between Hartford and Buffalo last week. The fight started when Buffalo's Wayne got entangled en·tan·gle tr.v. en·tan·gled, en·tan·gling, en·tan·gles 1. To twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; snarl. 2. To complicate; confuse. 3. To involve in or as if in a tangle. with Hartford goalie Sean Burke, prompting Keith to come over and protect the goalie. ``It was a good tradeoff,'' Wayne said. ``We needed him off the ice. Maybe I should have done it in the third period as well.'' Said Keith, ``I called my parents right away. My dad was laughing, actually.'' Keith won the fight when he sent Wayne to the ice. Slap shots: Washington's Jaroslav Svejkovsky, the AHL AHL American Hockey League AHL Action Half-Life (Half-Life modification) AHL Acyl Homoserine Lactone AHL Aramark Harrison Lodging AHL Acylated Homoserine Lactone AHL Association for the History of Language AHL Architects Hawaii Ltd Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year may refer to:
n. One that enforces or believes in strict discipline. adj. Disciplinary. disciplinarian Noun a person who practises strict discipline Noun 1. Brian Burke resigning from the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there office. . . . Second-hottest rumor has Hartford relocating to Minneapolis. . . . Keith Tkachuk became the fourth player in NHL history to have at least 50 goals and 200 penalty minutes. The others were Kevin Stevens, Brendan Shanahan and Gary Roberts. PLAYER WATCH Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh He concluded his career with six scoring titles, 613 career goals and 1,494 points. His 2.01 points per game is second only to Wayne Gretzky. PENALTY BOX Scotty Bowman, Detroit He benched goalie Chris Osgood for five straight games. Not exactly a conventional way to get a healthy goalie ready for the playoffs. ``We should all go outside, lie on our backs On Our Backs (ISSN 0890-2224) was the first women-run erotica magazine and the first magazine to feature lesbian erotica for a lesbian audience in the United States. and look at the clouds,'' Osgood said. ``We have a better chance at figuring out the clouds than what's going on What's Going On is a record by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released on May 21, 1971 (see 1971 in music), What's Going On reflected the beginning of a new trend in soul music. in this dressing room.'' SAY WHAT ``I went to Vancouver looking pretty and I left looking like a critter,'' Phoenix's Jeremy Roenick, after having two teeth knocked out by the stick of Vancouver's Brian Noonan. TOP 10 AND NO. 26 1. New Jersey: Good shot at second Cup in three years 2. Dallas: Mike Modano apologized for saying Stars' units of five better than Avalanche's 3. Philadelphia: Don't do good enough job of protecting Eric Lindros 4. Colorado: Patrick Roy at his toughest in playoffs 5. Detroit: Will playoffs be as difficult as Scotty Bowman's mind games? 6. Buffalo: Coach Ted Nolan worried team peaked too soon 7. Mighty Ducks: Paul Kariya will receive some MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. votes 8. Florida: Searching for early-season form 9. Edmonton: First-round fodder for Stars 10. Pittsburgh: 0-12-1 in last 13 road games 26. Boston: 45 percent chance of winning drawing for top pick CAPTION(S): Box Box: PLAYER WATCH (see text) |
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