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[DanielNegreanu]

It's an important Saturday night game and I have a lot of power to choose from. I made a few last minute changes on defense, inserting Ryan Malone, PIT., Karl Skratkins, Col. and Stephane Robidas in the lineup and taking out Keith Tkachuk, Stl., Craig Rivet, Mon. and Brad Lukowich, NYI. Decisions like that keep you up all night. They could easily mean the difference between a win or a loss. So far after two games in the AHL season my team is second in scoring behind the 1-1 Dawgs who pack some power up front. Here is the matchup for Saturday:Cheap ThievesFORWARDS:Joe Sakic, COL. OTRYAN MALONE, PITAlexei Yashin, NYI.Alexander Moginly, NJ.Olli Jokinen, FLA.Alexei Kovalev, MON.DEFENSE:STEPHANE ROBIDAS, DAL.Greg de Vries, ATL.Corey Sarich, TB.KARL SKRATKINS, COL.New Jersey DevilsDawgsFORWARDS Markus Naslund - Vancouver - OTJP Dumont - BuffaloCory Stillman - CarolinaAlex Tanguay - ColoradoJeff Halpern - WashingtonPetr Sykora - AnaheimDEFENSE Sheldon Souray - MontrealBrian Rafalski - NJDick Tarnstrom - PittsburghChris Pronger - EdmontonGOALIES Carolina

[MapleLeafpoker]

DanielNegreanu said:

Decisions like that keep you up all night. They could easily mean the difference between a win or a loss.

tell me about it! Sundin in this week, M.Dunham out, C.Ward out. P.Vorobiev traded away! and Tkachuk in too, for good measure. At least Jason Williams got me 3pts! Daniel: interesting note, even though lacking points, R.Malone is playing very well, and actually had more ice time than ANY Pittsburgh fwd on Fri night. Watched the game, he looked good. Id definelty start him the next little while, and he might be just the kind of guy for you to trade if he has a couple of good games.

[MapleLeafs]

Without looking at the other rosters, I will guess that Dawgs has the best defensive team in the league. Your forwards and goaltending win this one for you though Daniel.Good luck.

[digitalmonkey]

I think you're in trouble tonight Daniel. I would insert Lukowich instead of Sarich. I would imagine Lukowich (vs. Car) will get more scoring opportunities than Sarich (vs. Luongo) .Good luck!

[DanielNegreanu]

Call it a hunch. Luongo is working off of two straight shutouts and I'm thinking he may have a tough time doing that against TB tonight. Lukowich just doesn't seem to be getting many opportunites...

[SOWhatKid]

DanielNegreanu said:

Call it a hunch.  Luongo is working off of two straight shutouts and I'm thinking he may have a tough time doing that against TB tonight.  Lukowich just doesn't seem to be getting many opportunites...

I don't think you read my thread entitled LUONGO IS GOD!LOL

[digitalmonkey]

DanielNegreanu said:

Call it a hunch.  Luongo is working off of two straight shutouts and I'm thinking he may have a tough time doing that against TB tonight.  Lukowich just doesn't seem to be getting many opportunites...

Fredrik Modin, Wrist Shot - Assists: Cory Sarich and Rob DiMaioNice hunch!

[DanielNegreanu]

Looks like the Thieves are set to go 3-0 and the Ghosts went down so my main competition in the division is now 1-2. I actually got a lot of contribution from my defence tonight which is shaping up to be not quite as bad as I first thought. Still need to tweak it, but it's not embarrasing:FORWARDS:Joe Sakic, COL. OT 1.5RYAN MALONE, PIT. 0Alexei Yashin, NYI. 0Alexander Moginly, NJ. 1Olli Jokinen, FLA. xAlexei Kovalev, MON. xxDEFENSE:STEPHANE ROBIDAS, DAL. 0Greg de Vries, ATL. 1.5Corey Sarich, TB. xKARL SKRATKINS, COL. xNew Jersey Devils -15.5Markus Naslund - Vancouver - OT 1JP Dumont - Buffalo 0Cory Stillman - Carolina 0Alex Tanguay - Colorado 0Jeff Halpern - Washington 0Petr Sykora - Anaheim 1DEFENSE Sheldon Souray - Montreal 1Brian Rafalski - NJ 2Dick Tarnstrom - Pittsburgh xChris Pronger - Edmonton 0GOALIES Carolina -1.55 If either Naslund or Pronger get a late assist I'm actually going to lose this game...

[DanielNegreanu]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. Naslund assist, I lose in OT it looks like.

[digitalmonkey]

DanielNegreanu said:

 If either Naslund or Pronger get a late assist I'm actually going to lose this game...

He just got one!