NHL: Sieg gegen Minnesota und News-Update und ein Trade

16.11.2006 von Coyote.

Viel Uni, PC-Fehler - alles kam auf einmal, die Homepage fast zu kurz. Doch jetzt gibt’s ein neues Update - mit einer freudigen Nachricht: die Coyoten haben endlich mal wieder gewonnen! In einem Mini-Trade schickten die Coyoten indes Phil Sauve nach Boston. Sauve konnte sich im Tor nie wirklich durchsetzen - Fehleinkauf klingt hart aber sit wohl eher wahr. Für ihn kommt Tyler Redenbach nach Phoenix…ein Mann also den man einst draftete. Möge man davon ahlten was man will - Redenbach ist wohl günstiger…

Das Minnesota-Spiel:

Gegen Minnesota gab es ein 4:3 Sieg für die Coyoten. Yanic Perreault und Oleg Saprykin trafen dabei je doppelt. Wendepunkt im Spiel war die Schlägerei von George Laraque, der sich mehr und mehr zu einem wictigen Bestandteil der Coyoten mausert. Ein wichtiger Sieg für die Coyoten also, Serie starten! Ok, ich glaube bislang auch nicht ernsthaft dran aber die Hoffnung stirbt zu letzt.

ESPN: Boxscore Recap

Das schreibt AZCentral:

Laraque gives lift to Coyotes

David Vest
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 15, 2006 12:00 AM

Trailing 2-0 to the Wild on Tuesday night at Jobing.com Arena, Coyotes enforcer Georges Laraque dropped gloves with Minnesota tough guy Derek Boogaard. The bout was nothing spectacular, but it did spark Phoenix to a 4-3 victory.

“We were down 2-0, and once again it looked too much like a familiar pattern that we’ve had before,” Laraque said. “Playing at home in front of our crowd, I knew that getting into a fight would get the crowd going and the bench going. It was awesome to see the guys respond with a goal after that.”

Yanic Perreault cut the deficit to 2-1 less than a minute after the fight and added another goal in the third period.

Oleg Saprykin also scored twice for the Coyotes, who snapped a two-game losing streak. Laraque set up both of Saprykin’s goals, including the winner with 4:19 left in the game.

Phoenix, which entered the game as the 29th-ranked penalty-killing team in the league, preserved its 4-3 lead by thwarting a Minnesota power play late in the third period. Then, with less than five seconds left, Minnesota’s Pavol Demitra got loose behind the Phoenix defenders and put one last shot on Curtis Joseph, which Joseph knocked away with his glove.

Perreault said Laraque’s two assists were key and his fight with Boogaard shifted the game’s momentum.

“He made a difference tonight,” Perreault said. “He was trying to get everybody going, and it changed the game tonight. He’s a great team player.”

View from the press box
Tuesday night was “Mullet Night” at Jobing.com Arena, complete with Billy Ray Cyrus who, in case you’re wondering, doesn’t still have one, singing the national anthem. Before the game, Ccoach Wayne Gretzky was asked which NHLer player had the worst mullet of all-time. After asking if he could vote for himself, Gretzky said it’s no contest: “Barry Melrose. (Be it) the ’80s, ’90s or 2000s, he’s the captain of that team.”

Coyotes report
Cheers
Phoenix, which entered the game as the most penalized team in the league, committed just three infractions.

Jeers
The Coyotes failed to score during a four-minute power play in the second period that included 69 seconds of five-on-three time.

Our three stars
1. Yanic Perreault, Coyotes, two goals.
2. Georges Laraque, Coyotes, two assists, key fight.
3. Oleg Saprykin, Coyotes, two goals.

Quelle: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/1115coyotes.html

Bild des Spiels:

Die Situation, die das Spiel drehte: Laraque’s Kampf!

NEWS-Update:

JR scheint ein wenig frustriert zu sein - meine Empfehlung: besser spielen, dann verschwindet der Frust von alleine…. Josh Gratton ist zudem wieder im NHL-Kader der Coyotes - mal sehen was das Mehr an Grit bringt. Zudem gibts einen kleinen Artikel über Nagy.

Von AZCentral:

Performance frustrates Roenick

Bob McManaman
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Jeremy Roenick is beside himself. He’s angry. He’s a little bitter. And perhaps more than anything, he’s embarrassed he hasn’t been able to contribute offensively to a last-place Coyotes team that is starving for goals.

Things are so bad, Roenick didn’t even want to talk about tonight’s game against his former team, the Chicago Blackhawks, or the fact he will be wearing a microphone for television during the contest at Jobing.com Arena.

“There’s going to be a ton of expletives, I’m sure,” the frustrated center said Wednesday. “They’ll be bleeping me all night, the way things are going.”

Ricci almost ready
Center Mike Ricci has skated with the team for a week and will be allowed to participate in contact drills and scrimmages this weekend for the first time since undergoing surgery to repair a disk in his upper neck.

Quelle: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/1116yotenb1116.html

Nagy’s scoring needed to help offset injuries

David Vest
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 15, 2006 12:00 AM

The NHL think tank recently placed Ladislav Nagy on its 2007 All-Star Game ballot.

Nagy’s inclusion is perplexing considering the left wing, nicknamed “Sniper” because of his eye for scoring goals, is firing blanks - he has just one goal since scoring two in the season opener nearly six weeks ago.

That fact, combined with injuries to forwards Shane Doan, Mike Comrie and Steven Reinprecht, are the big reasons why Phoenix entered Tuesday’s game third to last in the NHL with 37 goals.

Nagy insists the knee he had major surgery on in February is 100 percent.

“It bothered me a little bit in the first couple games, but my first step is there now,” Nagy said.

Coach Wayne Gretzky is wondering if the injury is distracting Nagy on some level.

“I’m not too sure how the effects of the injury from last year have infiltrated into his mind, whether he’s conscious of it or whether he’s still maybe not at 100 percent as far as his physical attributes go,” Gretzky said. “It was a pretty serious injury . . . The bottom line is we’re counting on him, and we need him to be better than he’s been. It’s imperative that he plays at the level he’s capable of because were relying so heavily on him.”

Nagy, who had two assists Tuesday, struggled to get scoring chances and shots during the season’s first three weeks.

That is starting to change.

“I just have to keep skating, because if you don’t skate it’s tough to get chances,” Nagy said. “It’s different hockey now. You have to skate all the time, and that’s what I have to do. ”

Nagy said not getting frustrated also is a key to snapping his slump.

“If nothing’s going in for you, what can you do?” he said. “I just have to stay focused. When you get frustrated, it’s tough to play and tough to score goals. I’ve had a lot of chances, so hopefully I’ll get a lucky bounce and one will go in, and we’ll go from there.”

Minor trade
The Coyotes traded minor league goaltender Phil Sauve to Boston for center Tyler Redenbach and assigned Redenbach to San Antonio of the American Hockey League.

Phoenix selected Redenbach in the third round of the 2003 NHL draft but never signed him.

The deal created space on San Antonio’s roster for goalie Josh Tordjman, who was playing for the Phoenix RoadRunners, the Coyotes’ affiliate in the ECHL.

Tordjman was promoted to San Antonio Tuesday.

Fast Freddy
Right wing Fredrik Sjostrom attended his first NASCAR race Sunday at PIR and is hooked.

“The atmosphere was really cool,” Sjostrom said. “The sound and the smell of it were great.”

Sjostrom, from Sweden, said he also was impressed by the patriotism surrounding the Checker Auto Parts 500.

“I’ve never seen so many U.S. flags in one place,” he said.

Quelle: http://www.azcentral.com/sports/coyotes/articles/1115coyotesnotes.html

Und noch einen aus der East Valley Tribune:

Center arrives in Yanic of time 

By Matt Paulson, Tribune
November 16, 2006
Having kept a residence here since 1994, it took center Yanic Perreault hardly any time to settle into life in the Valley after signing with the Coyotes 2 1 /2 weeks ago.

And it has taken him even less time to make himself at home with the club on the ice.

“He’s probably our best forward,” linemate Fredrik Sjostrom said Wednesday. “He makes it look really easy out there. He’s a smart player. He finds you all the time. He’s always in the right place at the right time. That’s a cliché, but that’s the way it is.”

With three goals (two in Tuesday’s win) and five points in his first five games, Perreault has quickly become invaluable to a club trying to overcome the loss of three of its top six forwards.

“I quite honestly don’t know where we’d be if we didn’t have the opportunity to sign Yanic,” coach Wayne Gretzky said. “We’d be really in a vulnerable position. I’m thankful we got him.”

Perreault has also won 63 percent of his faceoffs and logged between 15 and 20 minutes every game. He’s done this despite missing all of training camp and the first month of the season because of hernia surgery in August.

“I’m amazed at physically the shape he’s in,” Gretzky said.

“He’s a pretty dedicated athlete to be in the kind of shape he’s in now, and to be able to compete and keep up playing 17, 18 minutes a game.”

Perreault had offers, some for more than the $700,000 he signed for, from several other clubs but said he thought he could be a difference maker for the Coyotes.

“It’s a place I wanted to come because I know it’s a good hockey team but probably didn’t play as good as they can so far,” said Perreault, who first came to the Valley in 1994 when he was a member of the Phoenix Roadrunners.

“You want to go somewhere where you can go to contribute to help the team to win. By coming down here, that’s what I’m trying to do. I didn’t know what to expect because of my injury. I didn’t know how I would feel, but so far the injury feels good. Hopefully, I’ll keep it going.”

LARAQUE TO LEMIEUX?

Gretzky has been so impressed with forward Georges Laraque’s offensive play of late he has given him a new nickname.

“Mario, that’s what we’re calling him,” Gretzky said with a laugh, referring of course to Mario Lemieux.

After a slow start to the season, which included being a healthy scratch once, Laraque has contributed two goals and three assists over the past seven games while maintaining his physical presence (two fights).

“He’s just been dominating from the corner, behind the net” with the puck, said Gretzky, who has bumped his playing time from eight to 10 minutes a game over that span.

Although known for being an enforcer, Laraque said he’s always shown he can be more than a one-dimensional player when given the opportunity.

“I know if I play 10 minutes a game I can produce points because I’ve done it in the past,” said Laraque, who had 13 goals and 19 points with Edmonton in 2000-01. “. . . I know once I get that mark, it’s so much easier to contribute.”

LOOSE PUCKS

Jeremy Roenick and Mike Comrie are among 15 NHL players featured in a new documentary called “In the Crease,” which offers an inside look at youth hockey today. The movie is scheduled to be released in theaters nationwide Dec. 7. . . . Shane Doan and Comrie today will donate 100 turkeys to the Salvation Army.

Quelle: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=79033

Heute geht es für die Coyoten gegen Chicago - wieder ein Sieg? Auf geht’s!

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