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03/13/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Phoenix Coyotes will play their first road game in just over a month this evening when they kick off a four-game swing versus the Carolina Hurricanes at RBC Center.
The Coyotes are among the league leaders with 25 home wins, but play 11 of their final 15 contests on the road. That includes each of their next four games, as they play as the visitor for the first time since Feb. 12.
Phoenix went 3-2-0 on a five-game homestand, with four of those games coming after the Olympic break, and wrapped the residency with a 4-3 shootout win on Wednesday versus Vancouver.
Ilya Bryzgalov made 36 saves but allowed three of the Canucks' six shootout skaters to score. However, the Coyotes bested Vancouver's Andrew Raycroft four times, getting the winner from defenseman Adrian Aucoin in the sixth round.
"We're very fortunate to get any points out of it, let alone two. We didn't compete anywhere near the level I'd like us to compete. You're playing against a team that played [Tuesday] night, and I though [the Canucks] dictated a lot of the play," said Phoenix coach Dave Tippett.
Taylor Pyatt scored his 100th career goal during regulation and Lee Stempniak added a pair of tallies over the first 60 minutes. Stempniak now has three goals and an assist in three games since being acquired in a trade with Toronto on March 3.
Phoenix, which has won five of its last seven as the guest, reached 40 wins for just the second time since relocating from Winnipeg prior to the 1996-97 season. The Coyotes last reached the 40-win mark in 2001-02, which was also the last time the franchise made the playoffs. However, Phoenix is tied with Los Angeles for the fourth spot in the Western Conference.
The Coyotes' road play will face a tough challenge tonight as the Hurricanes continue a four-game homestand. They won the opener of the residency on Thursday, besting Pittsburgh, 4-3, in overtime to run their home winning streak to eight games.
Brian Pothier scored the game-winner when he one-timed a Ray Whitney pass into the back of the net 23 seconds into overtime for his fifth goal of the season and first in five games since being acquired from Washington before the trade deadline.
Whitney, Pothier and Eric Staal each had a goal and an assist, while Zach Boychuk also scored for a Carolina club that hasn't lost at home since Jan. 18. The 'Canes are 2-1-1 over their last four games since a seven-game win streak, and 14-4-1 in their last 19 games. However, the club remains eight points back of the Bruins for the eighth spot in the East.
Justin Peters made 37 saves in his fifth career start.
"Our goaltender was real good and we found a way to win a game," said Carolina head coach Paul Maurice. "It wasn't pretty. We had some guys down, some guys injured, and some guys fatigued after last night, but it was good that we got the win."
One of this injured players was Brandon Sutter, who left in the first period due to a lower-body injury and is questionable for this game.
Carolina had lost four straight to Phoenix before winning both meetings last season by a combined 12-4 margin. That includes a 5-2 home win on Nov. 21, 2008 for its third win in its last five at home versus the Coyotes.
Peters has never faced Phoenix, while fellow Hurricane netminder Manny Legace is 7-7-1 with two ties and a 2.34 goals-against average versus the franchise.
Bryzgalov has never beaten the Hurricanes, going 0-3-0 with a 5.06 GAA in three starts.
<< Habs and Bruins square off as playoff hopefuls
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Montreal Canadiens look to further their playoff
chances and defeat Boston for the fifth time in six meetings this year tonight
at the Bell Centre, while the Bruins hope to strengthen their hold on the
Eastern Conference'
<< Raptors resume road trip in Oakland vs. Warriors
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Toronto Raptors haven't been playing like a team headed
towards the postseason and will resume a four-game road trip Saturday night
against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland.
Toronto is currently eighth in the Easte
<< Mavs aim to push win streak to 14 vs. Knicks
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The red-hot Dallas Mavericks will try to stretch their
season-high winning streak to 14 games tonight when they resume a four-game
homestand against the woeful New York Knicks.
Dallas kept its longest winning streak of the
<< Spurs shoot for 16th straight win over Clippers
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - There are quite a few rivalries in the NBA but don't count
the San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers among them.
A rivalry generally contains a little give-and-take or back-and-forth. When
the Spurs and Clippers get t
Blues hope to continue surge versus Blue Jackets >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A strong road trip has put the St. Louis Blues back in
contention for a postseason berth. The surging club continues its critical
swing with tonight's visit to the Columbus Blue Jackets, who'll be seeking a
third consecutive
Home sweet home: Canucks return to GM Place to battle Senators >>
(Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The wait is finally over.
After playing 14 straight times on the road over a span of six weeks, the
Vancouver Canucks finally return to GM Place for tonight's interconference
showdown with the slumping Ottawa Senators.
Terriers and Catamounts clash in America East title tilt >>
Burlington. VT (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A berth in the NCAA Tournament is on the
line in Burlington today, as the second-seeded Vermont Catamounts battle the
fourth-seeded Boston University Terriers in the 2010 America East Conference
Championship Ga
Top-seeded Duke faces upstart Miami in ACC semifinals >>
Greensboro, NC (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The fourth-ranked Duke Blue Devils are the
top seed in the 2010 ACC Tournament, and they are set to clash with the 12th-
seeded Miami-Florida Hurricanes in the semifinal round this afternoon.
The winner of t
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.
Kansas City, MO - Kansas City has not officially named Matt Cassel its starting quarterback, but there can be no doubt now.
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After praising his leadership and work ethic through spring workouts, the Chiefs announced Tuesday they had signed the 27-year-old Cassel to a multiyear contract. Terms were not disclosed, but he will almost certainly be one of the highest-paid members of the team.
"We are excited to be able to reach a long-term agreement for Matt Cassel to be a Kansas City Chief for many years to come," owner and board chairman Clark Hunt said in a statement. "His proven leadership on and off the field will be a tremendous asset to the organization."
Patriots made him their franchise player, meaning his salary for this season will be about $15 million.
New head coach Todd Haley, taking over for Herm Edwards after a 2-14 season, refused to name a starter at any position during offseason workouts. But it was obvious to everyone the team belonged to Cassel.
"I go out there each and every day with that focus that I'm the starter," Cassel said during a June minicamp. "Competition brings out the best in everybody."
The signing will come as welcome news to Cassel's new coaches and teammates. Amiable and hardworking, online football betting he appeared to win over everyone at minicamp.
"I think he's got some unique leadership qualities. I think his teammates like him and have respect for him. I think he's doing a pretty good job on the field, too," Haley said last month. "He's doing everything that I'm asking him, that our coaches are asking him to do. I don't have one single complaint how he's carrying himself."
After one workout, wide receiver Devard Darling declared Cassel "a breath of fresh air."
"He has a lot of swagger, a lot of confidence. It's good for us," said Darling. "We trust in him that he's going to go out there and lead us all the way."
nse to accommodate his specific abilities.
Trapped on the bench behind Heisman winners Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart at USC and then unable to unseat Super Bowl MVP Brady at New England, Cassel seemed destined to be a backup all his life. As Brady was helped off the field last September, Cassel seized the opportunity he'd been waiting for since high school.
In his only sustained action since his teens, he hit 349 of 555 passes for 3,949 yards at New England. He had 23 touchdown passes and 13 interceptions as the Patriots, who had gone unbeaten through the regular season the year before, finished 11-5 and out of the playoffs.
Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, who had been Bill Belichick's assistant in New England, engineered the trade after the Patriots became convinced that Brady would recover fully from his knee operation.
"Since Matt arrived in Kansas City, he has embraced the team and the community," Pioli said. "His work ethic, his ability and competitive presence is what we expect from our players."
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