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02/18/2007 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Montreal Canadiens take to the road in hopes of ending their recent tailspin, as the free-falling club visits Columbus' Nationwide Arena tonight for a rare matchup with the Blue Jackets.
Montreal is currently mired in a season-high six-game losing streak, a slide which has seen the Habs drop from fourth place in the Eastern Conference into a tie with the New York Islanders for ninth. The Canadiens now sit on the outside looking in of the playoff picture, two points behind rival Toronto for the final postseason spot in the East.
The team's struggles continued on Saturday, when Carolina's Rod Brind'Amour scored two goals, including the 400th of his career, to propel the Hurricanes to a 5-3 victory at the Bell Centre.
Montreal fell despite producing a 45-31 advantage in shots, as Carolina goaltender Cam Ward outdueled David Aebischer with an impressive 42-save performance.
Sheldon Souray, Radek Bonk and Tomas Plekanec all scored for the Canadiens, who have been outscored 22-10 during the streak.
Aebischer was filling in for injured All-Star Cristobal Huet, who needs surgery to repair a hamstring tear suffered in Montreal's 5-2 loss at New Jersey on Wednesday. The Habs recalled rookie Jaroslav Halak from the minors Friday as a result of Huet's injury, and the 21-year-old is expected to make his NHL debut tonight.
Columbus will be playing the last of a franchise-record six consecutive home games and would like to draw even for the lengthy stand. After dropping three of the first four contests of the residency, the Blue Jackets downed San Jose on Friday behind a stellar performance from goaltender Fredrik Norrena.
The Finnish rookie earned his third career shutout by turning back all 29 shots he faced as Columbus came through with a 3-0 triumph over the Sharks. Norrena got plenty of offensive support from Fredrik Modin, Gilbert Brule and Sergei Fedorov, all of whom recorded a goal and an assist on the evening.
The Blue Jackets are 14-13-3 at Nationwide Arena for the campaign, but have posted an 11-6-1 home mark since Ken Hitchcock took over as head coach in late November.
Tonight's clash marks the first encounter between these teams since they fought to a 1-1 tie in Montreal on November 11, 2003. The Canadiens have only visited Columbus one time previously, back on October 12, 2001. The Habs came away with a 3-1 decision.
<< Young stars face off as red-hot Penguins entertain Caps
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The NHL's two brightest young stars will go head-to-head as
Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals attempt to cool down Sidney
Crosby's scorching Pittsburgh Penguins in an intriguing matinee from Mellon
Arena.
<< Wounded Rangers look to regroup against Blackhawks
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - One day after suffering a devastating home loss, the New
York Rangers will try to rebound when the Chicago Blackhawks enter Madison
Square Garden for a Sunday matinee.
New York's fading playoff hopes took a seriou
<< Stars host Sharks in important Pacific clash
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Two Pacific Division powers will collide this afternoon at
the American Airlines Center, where the Dallas Stars host a San Jose Sharks
club looking to stop a two-game losing streak.
San Jose currently resides in sec
<< Trojans seek clean sweep in the desert
Tempe, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Winless in Pac-10 Conference play so far
this season, the Arizona State Sun Devils try to cure their ills
tonight as they face the 22nd-ranked USC at Wells-Fargo Arena in Tempe.
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Canucks host Avs, aim for Northwest lead >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Vancouver Canucks look to continue their recent winning
ways and also regain sole possession of first place in the Northwest Division
when they take the ice at General Motors Place tonight against the Colorado
Avalanc
Nats bring Belliard to camp >>
Viera, FL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Nationals signed infielder Ronnie
Belliard to a minor league contract on Sunday with an invitation to spring
training.
The 31-year-old hit .272 with 13 homers and 67 runs batted in while spli
Mauresmo spoils Belgian finale for Clijsters >>
Antwerp, Belgium (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Amelie Mauresmo of France continued her
dominance at the Proximus Diamond Games tennis tournament, winning the title
for the third straight year and beating Belgian native Kim Clijsters for the
crown f
Ajax held by Excelsior, trail PSV by five >>
Amsterdam, Holland (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Just when Ajax had climbed to within
three points of league-leaders PSV, the Amsterdam club lost two points over
the weekend to fall five off the pace. PSV recorded a 2-0 over Heracles on
Saturda
Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).
Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.
Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).
Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.
Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.
The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.
What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.
Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.
But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.
In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.
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