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Washington Capitals - Toronto Maple Leafs 5:4 (2:2, 2:1, 1:1)

1:0 (7.) Muir 2 PP (Biron)

2:0 (14.) Pettinger 1 SH (Witt)

2:1 (19.) McCabe 4 (Wellwood, Wilm)

2:2 (20.) O'Neill 6 (Sundin, Khavanov)

3:2 (22.) Willsie 2 (Fleischmann, Klepis)

3:3 (33.) O'Neill 7 PP (Sundin, Khavanov)

4:3 (36.) Ovechkin 9 PP (Halpern, Eminger)

5:3 (47.) Ovechkin 10 PP (Muir, Halpern)

5:4 (53.) Wellwood 3 (Tucker, McCabe)

SOG: Caps 33, Leafs 30.

PIM: Caps 29, Leafs 31.

PP: Caps 3/9, Leafs 1/7.

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bearbeitet 7. November 2005 von Lichtgestalt

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nach den zuletzt enttäuschenden leistungen und ergebnissen kommt jetzt offenbar ein bisschen bewegung in roster & line-up:

LEAFS TRADE PERROTT FOR A DRAFT PICK

Nathan Perrott proved useful to the very end with the Leafs.The hard-working enforcer, who never complained about his lack of ice time, was traded to Dallas last night to help the Leafs clear up a numbers crunch on their roster. With Perrott out of the fold — he appeared in only three games so far this season — the Leafs spared themselves any further roster moves tomorrow when it's believed the injured Nik Antropov and Mariusz Czerkawski might attempt to return to action against the visiting Caps.

Perrott, an Owen Sound native who has family and friends in Toronto, was initially shocked by the news. "Yeah, it caught me by surprise," he admitted. "I grew up with the Leafs and it will be hard to leave the city. But I'm looking at this as an opportunity. For me, it's a chance to get on the ice and prove myself to be an NHLer."

Perrott, who hustled and fought his way on to the roster two seasons ago after being discarded by Nashville, was dealt for a conditional pick in the 2006 entry draft. The pick will amount to Dallas's sixth-round selection, but if Perrott plays in half of the Stars games this season, the pick improves to a fifth-round selection. Toronto could have placed Perrott on waivers for the purpose of sending him to the Marlies for some ice time but he would have had to clear waivers.

It's not known if the Leafs actually attempted that move, with Dallas placing a claim on Perrott, and thereby prompting GM John Ferguson Jr. to play the trade card. Either way, it appears Dallas wants Perrott, which gives the personable winger at least a shot at ice time he wasn't receiving in Toronto. "There were other ways to go about it," Ferguson acknowledged. "But we felt this was a good move for us, and it continues the asset we had in Nathan." Several Leafs players doing post-game interviews last night credited Perrott as a hard worker and valuable teammate.

In the meantime, the Leafs are hoping the news about defenceman Aki Berg's injured knee is not bad news. "It's a sprain, but we don't know how serious it is ... he'll be re-evaluated (today)," coach Pat Quinn said. Berg suffered the injury in the first period last night and did not return to the game.

Wade Belak, who was moved to forward after spending the first 12 games as a defenceman, will likely be returned to the blue line to fill in for Berg. If Berg's injury proves to be more serious and long-term, the Leafs may recall either Carlo Colaiacovo or Andy Wozniewski from the Marlies.

-> thestar.com

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ALLISON AT CENTRE OF LEAF LINES SHAKEUP

A humbling loss at Washington on Sunday, combined with a frustrated Jason Allison's desire to play more, has caused a dramatic shuffling of the Maple Leafs' lines.

It is retooling that sees coach Pat Quinn deviate from his plan to keep all three of Mats Sundin, Eric Lindros and Allison at centre. But it is Allison, who hasn't played on the wing since his first years in the NHL, who will move out of the middle, not Lindros. "(Allison has) offered that he'll play anywhere. He wants more ice time and maybe this will give him some more ice time," said Quinn yesterday. "It's just a little more experimentation, moving it around to see if we can get it somewhat better. I don't think we had a lot happening on the offensive side for us (in the 5-4 loss to the Capitals)."

Quinn's tinkering leaves the duo of Sundin and Jeff O'Neill together. The return of Sundin, and his tremendous passing, has acted like a defibrillator on O'Neill's comatose scoring touch. O'Neill scored three times in the two weekend games, all on passes from the captain. Added to that line is rookie Alexander Steen, who has been one of the best Leafs in recent games.

With the return of Nik Antropov for tonight's rematch with the Capitals, Quinn has put him on the right side of a line with Lindros and Darcy Tucker, two players who also played together earlier with some success. Antropov is back after missing nine games with a knee injury.

Allison will likely line up on the right side on a line with Kyle Wellwood in the middle and Alexei Ponikarovsky on the left. Allison said his confidence has been lagging and his request to Quinn, made in a conversation more than a week ago, was to get more into the flow of games as opposed to direct appeal for more playing time. "When we talked it was not an issue of going in there and whining and making excuses, it's just more along the lines of just trying to get the best out of myself," related Allison. "I want to make it a good signing for them. I know I felt good at times in some games, then just not getting out there sometimes, it's kind of killed me and my confidence has been pretty bad, too. They brought me in for a reason and gave me the deal they gave me for a reason and you almost have to work together to try and get the most out of a player."

Allison said it's not about the numbers, but the amount he gets paid this year is directly related to how many points he puts up. The 30-year-old signed a one-year deal with a base salary of $1.5 million (all figures U.S.) but if he can reach the 70-point plateau, it would be worth an additional $1 million to him in bonuses. If he plays in 75 games, he would earn an additional $2 million.

"My numbers aren't awful. I'm almost at a point a game. A few more goals would be nice but it's not so much the numbers," said Allison, who has two goals and 10 assists in 15 games. I'm a guy who, when I'm on my game and playing well, I control the play, get some shifts down low and cycle well. It's been frustrating in the few games that I felt I was able to do that and feeling good, there were some really long stretches where I wasn't playing and that's hard mentally as a player."

Before he was out of hockey for 2 1/2 seasons, Allison never averaged less than 21 1/2 minutes a game in the five previous seasons. With Quinn's preference to mostly roll his top three lines, it is difficult to see how shifting to the wing will increase Allison's ice time, particularly since, initially, the coach does not have him on a line with either Sundin or Lindros. Allison is already averaging almost six minutes a game in power play time, so it would seem the only way to get him more playing opportunity is on the penalty kill. He's done it in the past, but Toronto has used him rarely in this capacity as he averages 39 seconds a game in penalty killing.

-> thestar.com

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STEEN JUMPS TO TOP LINE

Life is good for Alexander Steen. His name is being mentioned with the elite of a solid crop of NHL rookies, his GM called him one of the team's best players and after just 15 games he's played his way on to the top line of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The toughest thing for the 21-year-old to do right now is live up to the lofty expectations his fine play has created. "I'm not surprised," Steen said after practice at Lakeshore Lions Arena on Monday. "I've always known what I'm capable of doing. It's been real nice to have brought most of it out." Then, after a short pause, he continued ... "And I still feel there a couple notches I can move forward."

The Maple Leafs will be thrilled if he can keep up his current pace. Steen is fourth in rookie scoring with six goals and five assists and has a plus-4 rating on a team full of minus players. He's also part of Toronto's top penalty killing unit with sophomore Matt Stajan and has logged some minutes on the power play. Most importantly, he's been the Leafs' most consistent forward and has yet to make the kind of game-breaking gaffe rookies are prone to.

"My game's really been progressing throughout the season," said Steen. "I'm feeling very confident." In return, the team is showing confidence in him. Steen took part in drills on Monday wearing the same dark blue practice jersey as captain Mats Sundin and Jeff O'Neill. When the Maple Leafs take on Washington at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday night, he'll be the new left-winger on Toronto's top unit. "Those two have been on fire," Steen said of his new linemates. "My job is to go out and try and keep them going."

Steen is particularly excited about playing with fellow Swede Sundin, who returned to Leafs lineup over the weekend after missing 12 games with an eye injury. "He's huge back home," Steen said. "It's definitely going to be an honour playing with Mats. He's just flying out there so it's going to be awesome." Steen, a first-round draft pick in 2002, has entered elite company just by making some waves in his rookie season.

The Maple Leafs have done a notoriously bad job of drafting players over the past 20 years and Steen is arguably the team's most promising prospect since Wendel Clark broke into the league in 1985. Like Clark two decades ago, Steen has seen his role increase with every game Toronto plays. GM John Ferguson Jr. called him one of the team's best players during a television interview after Toronto's 5-4 loss in Washington on Sunday.

Clearly, the Maple Leafs have come to rely on him. "He's getting a lot of stressful minutes to have to play," coach Pat Quinn said. "We're using him a lot. And so far he's shown us that he's very capable." It's a trend that can be seen around the league as players like Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals, Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby, Chicago's Pavel Vorobiev and Colorado's Marek Svatos have become integral parts of their teams.

Quinn says the new economics of the NHL has opened the door for rookies as teams struggle to stay below the salary cap. The veteran coach is happy that Steen is part of that group, but is wary of using the rookie too much. "There'll be a place probably where he might hit a wall a little bit," Quinn said. "Each athlete has to work his way through it."

Steen, who last year played 50 regular-season games with MoDo in Sweden, agrees with Quinn. He's currently working with the team's strength and conditioning coach, Matt Nichol, to try and avoid a letdown during the NHL's gruelling 82-game schedule.

Above all, Steen is trying to savour his first season under the NHL spotlight. "I don't feel pressure, just excitement," he said. "I'm enjoying every game out there."

-> thestar.com

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Washington Capitals 6:4 (0:2, 2:0, 4:2)

0:1 (11.) Clymer 1 (Bradley, Sutherby)

0:2 (16.) Ovechkin 11 (Zubrus)

1:2 (29.) Kilger 2 (McCabe, Domi)

2:2 (31.) O'Neill 8 PP (McCabe, Kaberle)

3:2 (46.) Ponikarovsky (Sundin, O'Neill)

4:2 (47.) McCabe 5 PP (Tucker, Lindros)

5:2 (48.) Sundin 2 (O'Neill, Steen)

5:3 (50.) Ovechkin 12 PP (Muir, Willsie)

6:3 (55.) Colaiacovo 1 (Wellwood, Allison)

6:4 (56.) Pettinger 2 (Halpern, Clark)

SOG: Leafs 34, Caps 30.

PIM: Leafs 18, Caps 24.

PP: Leafs 2/10, Caps 1/7.

-> Recap

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Mats Sundin schafft es sogar, Ponikarovsky zum Goalgetter zu machen.

Sundin scored the winning goal and since the start of the 2000-2001 season has more winning goals, 34, than any other NHL player.

Defenceman Carlo Colaiacovo was called up from the AHL's Toronto Marlies to replace D Aki Berg (sprained knee). An approving cheer greeted the announcement Berg wouldn't be playing . . .

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Buffalo Sabres - Toronto Maple Leafs 5:2 (1:0, 1:2, 3:0)

1:0 (7.) Connolly 3 (Lydman, Kalinin)

1:1 (25.) Steen 7 PP (Sundin)

2:1 (33.) Drury 3 PP (Hecht, Numminen)

2:2 (36.) Lindros 9 (Kilger, Domi)

3:2 (47.) Connolly 4 (Numminen, Kalinin)

4:2 (58.) Grier 2 (Drury, Numminen)

5:2 (60.) Vanek 3 PP EN (Pyatt, Connolly)

SOG: Sabres 30, Leafs 29.

PIM: Sabres 6, Leafs 14.

PP: Sabres 2/7, Leafs 1/3.

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Montreal Canadiens - Toronto Maple Leafs 4:5 OT (0:0, 2:3, 2:1, 0:1)

0:1 (25.) McCabe 6 PP (Kaberle, Allison)

0:2 (28.) Ponikarovsky 5 SH (McCabe)

1:2 (32.) Markov 2 (Koivu, Kovalev)

2:2 (36.) Ryder 8 PP (Streit, Ribeiro)

2:3 (40.) Wellwood 4 (Antropov, Berg)

3:3 (48.) Begin 6 (Bonk, Komisarek)

4:3 (49.) Kovalev 7 (Koivu, Rivet)

4:4 (58.) Allison 3 (unassisted)

4:5 (65.) O'Neill 9 OT (Kaberle, McCabe)

SOG: Habs 35, Leafs 24.

PIM: Habs 16, Leafs 20.

PP: Habs 1/8, Leafs 2/6.

-> Recap

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Toronto Maple Leafs - New York Rangers 2:1 (1:0, 0:1, 1:0)

1:0 (19.) McCabe 7 PP (Kaberle, Allison)

1:1 (27.) Jagr 18 (Nylander, Straka)

2:1 (44.) McCabe 8 PP (Kaberle, O'Neill)

SOG: Leafs 24, Rangers 28.

PIM: Leafs 8, Rangers 8.

PP: Leafs 2/4, Rangers 0/4.

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Boston Bruins - Toronto Maple Leafs 1:4 (0:0, 1:1, 0:3)

0:1 (32.) Antropov 3 (Allison, McCabe)

1:1 (40.) Isbister 3 PP (Slegr, Boyes)

1:2 (49.) Lindros 10 (Kilger, Domi)

1:3 (51.) Sundin 3 PP (Kaberle, McCabe)

1:4 (55.) Tucker 7 PP (Lindros, Allison)

SOG: Bruins 32, Leafs 26.

PIM: Bruins 14, Leafs 8.

PP: Bruins 1/4, Leafs 2/7.

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Das beste Powerplay der Liga (25,3%) hat wieder zugeschlagen!

Das 4:1 allererste Sahne - Lindros to Tucker, scores!

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Toronto Maple Leafs - Atlanta Thrashers 5:1 (3:1, 2:0, 0:0)

1:0 (1.) Steen 8 (Kaberle, McCabe)

2:0 (8.) McCabe 9 (Kaberle, Sundin)

3:0 (17.) Antropov 4 SH (Ponikarovsky, McCabe)

3:1 (18.) Kovalchuk 14 PP (de Vries, Savard)

4:1 (25.) Ponikarovsky 6 (Antropov, Allison)

5:1 (30.) Ponikarovsky 7 (Khavanov, Allison)

SOG: Leafs 38, Thrashers 32.

PIM: Leafs 15, Thrashers 17.

PP: Leafs 0/5, Thrashers 1/4.

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[Seppo Dramac]

Das beste Powerplay der Liga (25,3%) hat wieder zugeschlagen! 

Das 4:1 allererste Sahne - Lindros to Tucker, scores!

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Wo siehst du dir die Videos an? Auf mapleleafs.com muss man sich auch für die Kurzvideos registrieren oder?

[AustroLeaf]

Wo siehst du dir die Videos an? Auf mapleleafs.com muss man sich auch für die Kurzvideos registrieren oder?

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Nein, muß man nicht! Unter "Leafs TV Video", "Show Playlist", "Highlights", ohne Registrierung.

Weiters schaue ich auf TSN.ca, zwar mit Registrierung, aber gratis und vor allem mit großem Audio/Video-Bereich, Highlights von allen Spielen und zusätzlichen Nachberichten für die Leafs. Schwer empfehlenswert!

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Bryan McCabe wurde zum Offensive Player Of The Week gewählt, mit einer Bilanz von 3G/4A in 3 Spielen. Er führt in der Scoringliste der Verteidiger mit 30 Punkten (9G/21A) klar.

Bericht hier.