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Oilers Tab Khabibulin to Start

EDMONTON — Niko­lai Khabibu­lin will make his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive start and Sam Gag­ner draws into the lineup as the Edmon­ton Oil­ers host the New York Rangers Sat­ur­day (8 p.m. local) at Rex­all Place. Khabibu­lin has not con­ceded more than a goal in reg­u­la­tion play this sea­son and was solid in a 2–1 over­time loss to the Min­nesota Wild on Thurs­day, despite let­ting in a sharp-angle shot from Dany Heat­ley with just over a sec­ond left in the third period. “I just thought he was good the other night, I liked the way he played, I like where he is men­tally,”... 

Jets Second-Guessing Themselves

WINNIPEG — If you don’t break the spell before it’s too late, los­ing can become a vicious cycle. When things aren’t going well — as has been the case for the Win­nipeg Jets in the early stages of the NHL sea­son — there’s a ten­dency for play­ers to try and do too much. Things that once came nat­u­rally now require con­sid­er­able thought, at least until the inter­nal sec­ond guess­ing begins. “It’s kind of weird,” said Jets cen­tre Bryan Little. “I’ve noticed that in the past. When you’re strug­gling to score goals, you’re in a bit of a slump and for... 

MLSE Soon to Name New Boss

TORONTO — The search for a new pres­i­dent and CEO of Maple Leafs Sports and Enter­tain­ment is inten­si­fy­ing, with a deci­sion pos­si­ble in the next few weeks. As recently as late August the process of replac­ing Richard Ped­die was delayed as the Ontario Teach­ers’ Pen­sion Plan was side­tracked by big­ger board­room matters. MLSEL’s major­ity share­holder put its 66% con­trol up for bid­ding and has yet to get a desir­able price. But as that remains unre­solved, the clock is tick­ing towards Dec. 31, when the 64-year-old Ped­die reaches his nego­ti­ated... 

Rebuilt Senators Beat Reborn Jets

OTTAWA — The rebuilt beat the reborn Thurs­day night. The Sen­a­tors halted their three-game los­ing skid, drop­ping the relo­cated Win­nipeg Jets 4–1 in front of 17,919 at Sco­tia­bank Place. While the Sen­a­tors have a long way to go, they got an eight-point night from the trio of Jason Spezza, Milan Michalek and Colin Green­ing, along with Daniel Alfredsson’s third goal of the season. Goal­tender Craig Ander­son, mak­ing his first start in a week, made 35 stops as the Sen­a­tors picked up only their sec­ond vic­tory to move into the No. 13 spot in the East­ern Con­fer­ence—... 

Wild Beat Oilers for Eighth Straight Time

EDMONTON — Never mind Daryl Katz, Min­nesota has owned the Oil­ers for so long Edmon­to­ni­ans should be build­ing the Wild a free arena. But when 16,839 fans at Rex­all Place dozed off to sleep Thurs­day night, they fully expected to wake up and dis­cover that the slump was finally over. The Oil­ers went up 1–0 […] Keep informed with real time NHL odds and all the lat­est NHL bet­ting reports. As well as NHL bet­ting lines, we offer bet­tors wager­ing on the Stan­ley Cup Finals, 1st period lines, tons of NHL prop bets as well as the daily grand salami.When bet­tors look... 

Boo Who? Gonchar Flabbergasted at Razzing

OTTAWA — Sergei Gon­char is hop­ing to get off the boos. Leather lungs won’t get a chance to razz the Sen­a­tors defence­man (ankle injury) Tues­day in a home date against the Fly­ers, but Gonchar’s agent, J.P. Barry, said his client is upset with the reac­tion he’s been get­ting on home ice. Strug­gling through the early part of the sea­son, Gon­char has been jeered relent­lessly. He hasn’t spo­ken pub­licly, but Barry told the Ottawa Sun that Gon­char is “flabbergasted.” “It’s just got­ten a lit­tle absurd,” said Barry Monday. “Does he have to play bet­ter?... 

Kesler to Make Season Debut Tuesday

VANCOUVER – Van­cou­ver for­ward and reign­ing Selke Tro­phy win­ner Ryan Kesler will make his 2011-12 sea­son debut Tues­day night when the Canucks host the New York Rangers. Kesler had been recov­er­ing from off­sea­son surgery on his hip. The 27-year-old net­ted a career-high 41 goals and col­lected 32 assists in 82 games last sea­son. He added 19 points, includ­ing seven goals, in Vancouver’s run to the Stan­ley Cup Finals. A first-round pick (23rd over­all) in 2003, Kesler has reg­is­tered 131 goals and 157 assists in 484 career games, all with the Canucks. For... 

Leafs Learned From Last Year’s Early Letdown

When the Maple Leafs broke fast from the gate last year, notch­ing four straight wins, there were visions of 90-plus points and a rekin­dled love affair with the city. But the only thing that stayed inflated after mid-October was their col­lec­tive ego, before a loud and pro­longed ‘pffft’ saw their bal­loon sink to near the East­ern Con­fer­ence base­ment by Christmas. “We sur­prised a lot of peo­ple at the start and that’s the part that went to our head,” admit­ted defence­man Luke Schenn. “Last year, we got off to a good start and maybe got a lit­tle too full ourselves.” The... 

Canucks Defeat Oilers

EDMONTON – Get a place, kid. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins took the deci­sion out of management’s hands on Sat­ur­day night at Rex­all Place. On a Hockey Night In Canada cen­tre stage against the West­ern Con­fer­ence cham­pion Van­cou­ver Canucks, the 18-year-old rookie guar­an­teed he’ll spend the sea­son with the Edmon­ton Oil­ers, scor­ing his sec­ond, third and fourth goals of the sea­son in a history-making nat­ural hat-trick performance. The team still needs work, though, los­ing 4–3, but Nugent-Hopkins ended the junior debate. “It def­i­nitely is excit­ing,” said... 

Mayor MVP, Katz First Star in Arena Project

In the end, Daryl Katz proved that he’s still Edmonton. In the end, the Edmon­ton Oil­ers owner stepped up to do what he had to do to move the down­town arena project a large leap for­ward toward real­ity to keep the team here for the next 35 years. “They moved quite a bit and we moved some,” said mayor Stephen Man­del of what hap­pened in Gary Bettman’s NHL offices in New York this week. “Mr. Katz was com­mit­ted to mak­ing a deal. They bent. We bent. I think this is a rea­son­ably fair deal.” Bettman’s off-Broadway show­down will almost cer­tainly go down as a... 

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