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No mumps for Fleury, Foligno keeps scoring, Green back on top and more...   *   Some major happenings on the injury front for the Pittsburgh Penguins. First, starter Marc-Andre Fleury’s mumps test results came back negative so he started last night and recorded a 29-save shutout. Then word came down that backup netminder Thomas Greiss is [...]

Rare shutouts for Anderson and Lehtonen, the Canucks slumping second line, Fleury may have the mumps and more...   *   Craig Anderson with the 34-save shutout win to help bail his team out from a subpar performance. This ends a 10-game string of middling performances from Anderson in which he had allowed three goals [...]

Talking the Oilers mess, Bishop's injury, Hodgson-Gagner corollaries and more...   *   We’ll start with the rundown motel of a franchise in Edmonton that shuffled the deck chairs on the patio of its sewage-filled swimming pool as if that would get people to jump in.   I realize that Dobber already covered Dallas Eakins’ [...]

Crosby sick, Glencross trending down, Jurco is intriguing, Hartnell down and more...   *   The Penguins got some reinforcements back last night with both Kris Letang and Patric Hornqvist returning to the lineup. Neither one was eased back with Letang skating 27:16 and Hornqvist 18:40. Letang scored the game-winner.   Of course, the Penguins [...]

Toews hurt, Steen's hot night, Lucic ready to pop, Girgensons is good and more...   *   I hate to do it but we’ll start today with some injury news as Jonathan Toews was sent head first into the boards in the second period last night. He did get up and skated on the ensuing [...]

The impact of Chara's return, the quirks of the Leafs' upcoming schedule and more...   *   Zdeno Chara could return tonight. Yeah buddy!   I opened with this story because it is important to make it clear that Chara’s return WILL NOT hurt Dougie Hamilton. There are two reasons for this.   1. Hamilton [...]