After falling to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday, the Calgary Flames dive into another daunting matchup against the Chicago Blackhawks having dropped their first three contests of a four-game road trip and four straight in total.
Walter Thurmond Giants Jersey . The Flames scored 3.11 goals per game - fifth-best in the NHL - during their first 27 games despite the third-lowest shots on goal average (26.6). Lately, theyve been getting plenty of shots but they havent been going in. Calgary has outshot its opponents 140-100 on this four-game skid, but its been outscored 14-7. (We need to) get more guys in front of the net and go to the dirty areas, forward Paul Byron told the Flames official website. It looks like other teams are scoring those goals right in the paint and were not getting enough of those. Third in the Western Conference just 10 days ago, Calgary has started to tumble in the standings. No one feels sorry for us, thats for sure, coach Bob Hartley said. Were in a very competitive business. Its around us, its there. Weve done it before, we just have to go back and keep going. On Sunday, well be against the Hawks. Its important we regroup, refocus and stay on the job in front of us. The Blackhawks and Flames have met twice already this season, with each team recording a win. Calgary edged Chicago 2-1 in overtime on Oct. 15 - one of only four home losses for the Blackhawks, who got revenge with a 4-3 road win Nov. 20. Karri Ramo and Jonas Hiller have alternated starts during the Flames losing streak. Hiller has started both games against the Blackhawks this season, and made 49 saves at the United Center in October. Jonathan Toews played Saturday after exiting Thursdays game with an upper-body injury. Hes been held to just three points in his past nine games against Calgary. One night after their longest winning streak of the season came to an end, the Blackhawks return to a place where theyre quite comfortable - even though theyve rarely seen it of late. Theyre back on the United Center ice Sunday night against the Calgary Flames, who look to end an otherwise dismal four-game road trip on a high note. The Blackhawks (20-9-1) failed to find the defensive effort that had carried them all season Saturday, allowing a season high-tying 41 shots to the New York Islanders in a 3-2 loss. Chicago came in yielding 28.7 shots per game. This was a wakeup call for sure, said Patrick Kane, who scored his 10th goal in his last 14 games. We allowed too many chances. We will come back strong (Sunday). Our goalie was great and gave us every chance. Kane should have a good chance to score in a third straight game Sunday. He has 16 goals in 27 career meetings with Calgary - his second-best mark against any opponent - and has seven goals and five assists in the last eight in the series. Scott Darling, who stopped 38 shots Saturday, started all four games on the Blackhawks road trip, but hes never played on back-to-back nights in the NHL. That could mean Joel Quenneville turns to Antti Raanta, who has a .942 save percentage in five starts, as Chicago plays just its third home game since Nov. 17. After falling to Pittsburgh 3-1 on Friday, Calgary (17-12-2) has dropped the first three games of this trip to follow a home loss to San Jose on Dec. 6. The Flames scored 3.11 goals per game - fifth-best in the NHL - during their first 27 games despite the third-lowest shots on goal average (26.6). Lately, theyve been getting plenty of shots but they havent been going in. Calgary has outshot its opponents 140-100 on this four-game skid, but its been outscored 14-7. (We need to) get more guys in front of the net and go to the dirty areas, forward Paul Byron told the Flames official website. It looks like other teams are scoring those goals right in the paint and were not getting enough of those. Third in the Western Conference just 10 days ago, Calgary has started to tumble in the standings. No one feels sorry for us, thats for sure, coach Bob Hartley said. Were in a very competitive business. Its around us, its there. Weve done it before, we just have to go back and keep going. On Sunday, well be against the Hawks. Its important we regroup, refocus and stay on the job in front of us. The Blackhawks and Flames have met twice already this season, with each team recording a win. Calgary edged Chicago 2-1 in overtime on Oct. 15 - one of only four home losses for the Blackhawks, who got revenge with a 4-3 road win Nov. 20. Karri Ramo and Jonas Hiller have alternated starts during the Flames losing streak. Hiller has started both games against the Blackhawks this season, and made 49 saves at the United Center in October. Jonathan Toews played Saturday after exiting Thursdays game with an upper-body injury. Hes been held to just three points in his past nine games against Calgary.
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Weston Richburg Giants Jersey . The Durban-based Sharks withstood a furious second-half fightback to beat the Queensland Reds 35-20 for a fourth straight win which gave them a five-point lead atop the championship table. The Hamilton-based Chiefs scored two late tries to beat the Cape Town-based Stormers 36-20 for their third win, after the Stormers rallied from 24-6 down to 24-20 with six minutes remaining.The Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens will renew their storied rivalry Thursday night in Boston when they meet for a NHL record 34th time in the Stanley Cup playoffs in Game 1 of the their Eastern Conference second round series. Each playoff series serves as another chapter, but the Canadiens have ruled much of this rivalry - winning 18 consecutive series from 1946-1987. But since then, the Bruins have won seven of 11 series including the last two out of three. That one loss for Boston is where the rivalry for a good portion of the core of both teams began and now its Montreal who is aiming to turn the tide back after coming so close in their seven-game series loss to the Bruins in 2011. "This building is vibrating!" Those were the words of long-time NESN Bruins play-by-play announcer Jack Edwards when then Boston Bruin Phil Kessel scored a third period game-tying goal during a classic see-saw affair in Game 6 of the 2008 Eastern Conference quarterfinal series between the eighth-seeded Bruins and top-seeded Canadiens. The Bruins would have to tie that game again and then win it 5-4 on a Marco Sturm goal with 2:37 left in regulation forcing a Game 7 after trailing the series 3-1. Montreal though avoided the epic collapse, winning Game 7 5-0. Ironically, that was Carey Prices first and last playoff series win - until the Canadiens recent sweep of the Lighting in the first round of this current playoff season. But in the eyes of the Bruins and their fans, that 2008 series reignited not only the rivalry, but the organization that has since won two straight series - including a 2009 sweep and their first Stanley Cup in 38 years after that nail-biting win over Montreal in 2011. That spring, the sixth seeded Canadiens came in as underdogs again to the third-seeded Bruins. But Montreal took the first two games in Boston to take what seemed like a commanding 2-0 series lead back to the Bell Centre for Games 3 and 4. But the Bruins took the next two games, including a 5-4 overtime win in Game 4 after trailing 3-1 early in the second and 4-3 in the third period. "We were up 3-1. We were up 3-1 going into the third," said Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban this week. "With a veteran team and the experience we had, we shouldve won the game but we didnt win it. Whos to say what wouldve happened moving forward? I just think we had an opportunity to beat the team that won the Stanley Cup that year." Since it was determined last Saturday that these two rivals would meet for the third time in the last five seasons, the Bruins have had no issues expressing their hatred for the Canadiens. "Yeah I do," Bruins forward Milan Lucic said Wednesday when asked if he hated the Habs. "If you asked them the same question Im sure theyd give you the same answer. "Its just natural for me, being here for seven years now, just being a part of this organization, you just naturally learn to hate the Montreal Canadiens and the battles weve had with them over the last couple of years have definitely made you hate them." The Canadiens however have not given the same answer leading into this series. "No comment," Montreal coach Michel Therrien said flatly after he was twice asked if he hates the Canadiens Wednesday.Lucic has built a personal rivalry with Montreal defenceman Alexei Emelin - similar to the one he had with former Canadiens defenceman Mike Komisaarek back in 2009.
Owa Odighizuwa Giants Jersey. Last month, Emelin nailed Lucic with a mid-ice hip check that resulted in Bruins captain Zdeno Chara hauling Emelin to the ice. Later in the game, Lucic speared Emelin in the groin. When asked about the personal showdown on Wednesday, Lucic explained thats "just part of the game" - when a right winger and a left sided defenceman square off with each other, and they will develop run-ins like that. But Emelin wasnt available to comment on the matter after Canadiens practice Wednesday and for much of the week, aside from Subban, many of the Montreal players downplayed the animosity. Where former Bruin and current TSN regional Canadiens color man Dave Reid is concerned, thats not necessarily Emelin or the Canadiens just taking the high road or following a gag order. "I think right now most of these guys dont understand what the rivalry is about but it will pick up as the series moves along and the fans will be in it," Reid said Wednesday night. "The fortunate thing about the Montreal and Boston rivalry is that they do seem to play each other so often and whoever won the last series, theyve got the swagger to start the series and the guys that were in that previous series on the losing series say ‘Hey we got something to prove. Thats what makes this rivalry so special - these two teams seem to play each other in the playoffs almost annually. I know the fans look forward to it on both sides and as time goes on so do the players. When youre a player on each side youre almost disappointed when you dont get the chance to go through Boston or Montreal to move on in the playoffs. So this will be another great series and I expect it to be a long series." Whether its this new generation of the rivalry or the older, they likely agree with Reid on those points. And this seasons Canadiens are most definitely looking to regain that swagger. "For guys that are in this room that were there [in 2011] and were a part of it, maybe this is another opportunity to salvage something," Subban later said. "You have to give them credit though. They played well too and its a seven-game series. It takes a lot of heart, a lot of blocked shots and a lot of grit to win that and they won it. They deserved to win it. But I thought that we fell a little bit short and we deserved to win as well but it didnt happen." For so many years, "it didnt happen" were the words of Bruins players following a Bruins-Habs series. Can this underdog Canadiens team make the Stanley Cup favorite Bruins utter those same words just as Ken Dryden and the 1971 Canadiens did to Bobby Orr and the heavily favored Bruins that season? This new generation of the Bruins-Habs rivalry is ready to write the next chapter and whether its at TD Garden or the Bell Centre, yes Mr. Edwards - the building will be vibrating. James Murphy is a freelance reporter who also writes for NHL.com, the Boston Herald and XNsports.com. He covered the Boston Bruins/NHL for last 11 seasons writing for ESPNBoston.com, ESPN.com, NHL.com, NESN.com, the Boston Metro, Insidehockey.com and Le Hockey Magazine. Murphy also currently hosts the radio show "Murphys Hockey Law" heard Saturdays 9-11 AM ET on Sirius/XM NHL Network Radio and 4-6 PM ET on Websportsmedia.com. In addition to that, he is a regular guest TSN 690 in Montreal and Sirius/XM NHL Network Radio as well as a hockey analyst on CTV Montreal.
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