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St. Louis Blues
vs
Carolina Hurricanes
Today's Featured Sports Pick

Game Date:
02/28/2016
3:05pm EST

Lines:
St. Louis +1.5
Carolina -1.5

Total:
Over 5 (+127)
Under 5 (-140)

Community Picks: St. Louis Blues 0% vs Carolina Hurricanes 0%

St. Louis Blues and Carolina Hurricanes Thread

Team Tweets & News Articles
St. Louis Blues
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Filip Forsberg recorded his second hat trick in four days and Pekka Rinne posted a 26-save shutout in Nashville's 5-0 win over St. Louis on Saturday. Continue to Article
February 27, 2016 9:30:pm EST
Carolina Hurricanes
Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at  puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com . Continue to Article
February 26, 2016 1:28:pm EST
Carolina Hurricanes
Winnipeg Jets forward Bryan Little will not return to the ice this season after suffering a compression fracture of a vertebrae last week. Jets coach Paul Maurice announced the bad news for the Jets on Thursday morning before a game against the Dallas Stars. Little is the team's second-leading scorer this season with 17 goals and 42 points through 57 games. Continue to Article
February 25, 2016 7:34:pm EST
Carolina Hurricanes
Dobber launched his fantasy hockey website  DobberHockey  back in 2005 and has been Puck Daddy's resident fantasy hockey 'expert' since 2009. The NHL trade deadline is just around the corner and with that comes the trade deadline in most fantasy leagues. Here are the six players on the trading block who could see the biggest boost in short-term fantasy value (i.e. the final six weeks of the season). These aren’t necessarily the biggest names, but they are the ones who would see a nice jump in production. Jonathan Drouin, Tampa Bay Lightning – Right now with Tampa he’s on track to get zero points in zero games between now and April 10. However, if Drouin’s traded before the deadline…his production is bound to improve on that. Yes, I really set the bar high there. Anyway, Drouin will be on a mission to thrive and his new team will be on a mission to help their GM look good. So he’ll be given power-play time and quality linemates. If Drouin fails as an NHL player (I don’t think he will, but ‘if’ he does), it won’t start happening until next season because March will be his month. Mikkel Boedker, Arizona Coyotes – Boedker has eight points in his last 22 games. Prior to that he was on pace to easily surpass his career best. In fact, he’s still on pace to get 52 points which would still be a career high. But at one point he was looking at mid- to high-60s. He recently turned 26 and is entering the prime of his career. On a new team with better linemates, watch him soar. Kris Russell, Calgary Flames – Russell is a 25-point defenseman. Unless. Unless he’s counted on for offense. In the last two seasons an injury to Mark Giordano (among others) gave Russell a 15- or 20-game window in which he was used on the power play and produced like a 45-point player. On the right team he will surprise. Nail Yakupov, Edmonton Oilers – Still only 22, Yakupov’s upside remains high. Don’t lower your opinion of him just because of the numbers. The Oilers have chemistry on the top two lines so Yakupov is stuck playing with Mark Letestu and Zack Kassian. A new team in need of a second-line winger would be just what the doctor ordered. Andrew Ladd, Winnipeg Jets – Ladd’s production (0.58 points per game) is at the lowest we’ve seen in years. A new team and a fresh start almost always get a proven scorer in his prime going again. Eric Staal, Carolina Hurricanes – I wish there was an explanation for Eric’s 43-point pace. But it will get better. Even if he stays it will get better, so on a new team there’s no reason to think otherwise. Especially when you consider that potential linemates. Staal will get ‘star status’ wherever he goes. You don’t see Loui Eriksson of the Bruins on the above list because he’s having his best season in five years. It’s hard to really improve on that and in fact were he to move, I would be concerned about a possible slowdown. There are also a few names that are just…intriguing. It could go either way in terms of a production boost or decline, but I’d be curious enough to take a flier on one or two. Here are four names, three for this year and one for next: Travis Hamonic, New York Islanders – As with the other three players in this section, how Hamonic produces will depend mightily on fit. He’s shown in the past that he can put points on the board if his team needs that to be his job. Radim Vrbata, Vancouver Canucks – I’m sorry, I keep turning to start the Vrbata blurb and each time I get distracted by that minus-32. Minus-32! Have things really gotten that bad? Vrbata peaked last season when he clicked with the twins. He would need a similar situation on a new team to get rolling again and even then I wonder if it would be enough. He’s 34 and having such a terrible season that it makes Chris Kunitz’s first 35 games look like a hot streak. Justin Schultz, Edmonton Oilers – The mere mention of this guy’s name brings an automatic 10 or 15 negative reader comments below. But there has to be a situation somewhere that will see him thrive, no? Okay then. You’re probably right. But I’m still going to watch closely. Philip Larsen, Vancouver Canucks – This one is for next year, as he is in the KHL this season. But I’m curious about Larsen because this trade came out of nowhere. Be honest, how many times have you heard Larsen’s name over the past year? And yet the Canucks went after him now, when there didn’t seem to be any rush – could they have waited until September? Vancouver gave Edmonton a fifth-round draft pick for Larsen and that becomes a fourth-round pick if he reaches certain thresholds. So the Oilers insisted (I’m guessing) on the latter clause because they feared he could do well. But most of all, this player move has my interest because the Canucks badly need a puck-moving defenseman. Alex Edler is most certainly not the offensive player he once was, and Ben Hutton just isn’t cutting it. Keep an eye on this situation for next season. And with that, we’ll skip the Studs and Duds this week and go directly to the wire recommendations. The Wire ... Mostly short-term grabs here, but as always some potential steals...    Jordan Staal, Carolina Hurricanes (40%) (21-9-14-23, plus-17, 8 PIM, 35 SOG, 5 PPPts) – Take another look at those numbers. Did he and Eric switch jerseys? Eric, by the way, is still owned in 64% of leagues. Jordan is beating Eric in every offensive category, quite handily, despite less ice time. Benoit Pouliot, Edmonton Oilers (22%) (11-4-9-13, plus-3, 6 PIM, 25 SOG, 3 PPPts) – Connor McDavid is on fire and he’s bringing his linemates along with him. Pouliot has earned 18 of his 35 points this season with McDavid on the ice with him. Michael Stone, Arizona Coyotes (19%) (7-1-6-7, plus-4, 6 PIM, 12 SOG, 1 PPPts) – Just one of Stone’s seven points in the last seven games have come on the power play, but he actually has 11 on the season. His %PP, the percentage of the team’s available power-play time that he gets, is hovering around 70% now after it was closer to 40% in the first half. Kevin Hayes, New York Rangers (29%) (7-4-3-7, plus-1, 0 PIM, 14 SOG, 2 PPPts) – The numbers don’t exactly light the world on fire but I find them interesting because at this time last year he was kicking off a run that saw him post 29 points in the final 36 games of the season. So this current streak could have some staying power. Nino Niederreiter, Minnesota Wild (7%) (5-2-3-5, plus-7, 2 PIM, 10 SOG) – The new coach is giving El Nino a bigger chunk of the power-play time, which could up the production even further going forward. But the reason for his points, which were all at even strength since John Torchetti took over, is because of new linemates. Torchetti has caught lightning in a bottle with the line of Niederreiter, Jason Pominville and Erik Haula. Joakim Nordstrom, Carolina Hurricanes (1%) (13-6-5-11, plus-8, 4 PIM, 18 SOG) – Nordstrom has been lucky enough to play with the red-hot Jordan Staal, which has led to the hottest little run of Nordstrom’s career – both past and (probably) future. His 11 points in 13 games come after a career total of 15 points in 101 games. Robby Fabbri, St. Louis Blues (4%) (8-3-4-7, minus-4, 13 PIM, 14 SOG, 5 PPPts) – The 20-year-old rookie has been a beast on the power play despite seeing secondary minutes there. As an added bonus in roto leagues he’s playing with a chip on his shoulder, as 13 of his 17 PIM this season have come in the last eight games. As you prep for your league’s trade deadline, be sure to bookmark Dobber’s new fantasy hockey player profiles . Custom built to help the fantasy hockey owner. Follow Dobber @ DobberHockey MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY : Continue to Article
February 25, 2016 9:57:am EST
St. Louis Blues
The NHL has suspended St. Louis Blues forward Ryan Reaves for three games without pay for a blindside hit into the boards that injured San Jose defenseman Matt Tennyson. The punishment announced by the NHL's department of player safety on Wednesday will cost Reaves more than $18,000 in salary. Tennyson had chased down the puck at the end boards and had his back to Reaves when he was checked from behind. Continue to Article
February 24, 2016 5:10:pm EST
 
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