The Detroit Red Wings are locked in a tight race for home-ice advantage throughout the playoffs. Being the best road team in the NHL could help them achieve that goal.
Evgeni Malkin fell just short in the NHL scoring race last season, losing by six points. Heading into the final weeks of 2008-09, it’s clear he’s the one that’s going to be tough to catch this time.
The Carolina Hurricanes will take on the New York Islanders at the RBC Center tonight, with two valuable points in the standings on the line. Normally, one would think that a game against the Isles would be a pushovera free two points. Not right now.
The Charlotte Bobcats have lost three in a row, two to clearly superior Western Conference playoff teams that we had little hope of defeating going into this stretch (San Antonio and Houston), and the third game I should have, in retrospect, recognized would be an especially difficult battle (Minnesota, the night after Houston). Tonight, the Bobcats take on the Toronto Raptors, who are well out of the playoff chase and are on the second half of a back to back, coming down to North Carolina from Indiana.
This is the 14th set of back-to-back games for the team. The Mavericks are 6-7 are on the back end of these games. Conseco Fieldhouse has not been kind to the Mavericks.
Novak Djokovic and Andy Roddick will settle a recent feud on the court for a birth in the Indian Wells semifinals. The head-to-head between these two competitors is tied at two apiece.
At last, the clash between Juan Martin del Potro and Rafael Nadal (which was expected to take place in last Davis Cup final) will be held on Friday at Indian Wells, after the match between Serbian Novak Djokovic and local Andy Roddick. Del Potro will try to shake everyone by defeating the Spaniard despite he could never defeat (let alone win a set) him in the three matches they played
Hull FC hooker Shaun Berrigan has shaken off a shoulder injury sustained in last Sundays 36-24 win at Bradford Bulls, which will enable coach Richard Agar to name an unchanged team for the third successive week as they seek to maintain their 100% record. Castleford Tigers will give centre Michael Shenton a late fitness test on the dead leg he suffered in the defeat by Huddersfield Giants – winger Michael Wainwright is standing by for a call-up – while prop Liam Higgins could face his old club after recovering from a knee injury
Former Wigan Warriors winger Andrew Thornley, who scored a try on his Salford City Reds debut in last weeks 38-12 defeat at St Helens, makes way for the return of scrum-half Richie Myler, who has recovered from a hand injury. Second rower Ian Sibbit, who this week avoided a drugs ban, and prop Lee Jewitt are both hoping to return from injury and illness respectively
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