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Disputed shootout goal lifts Coyotes over DucksHockey Betting Lines04/12/2009 - Glendale, AZ (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Viktor Tikhonov scored the game-winner in the fourth round of the shootout as Phoenix ended its regular season with a disputed 5-4 win over Anaheim. After Teemu Selanne lifted his chance over the net to start the round, Tikhonov made several stick fakes before slipping the puck off Jean-Sebastien Giguere's pad and the right post. The Ducks coaching staff asked for a review because it appeared that Tikhonov illegally double-touched the puck to push it over the goal line. After a lengthy review proved inconclusive, Phoenix was finally able to walk away victorious. Steve Reinprecht tallied twice with two helpers for the Coyotes (36-39-7), who finished the season with four wins in their last six games and landed in a tie with the Kings at the bottom of the Pacific Division. Todd Fedoruk and Enver Lisin also scored while Ilya Bryzgalov allowed four goals on 35 shots for the win. "It wasn't the way we anticipated our year," said Coyotes head coach Wayne Gretzky. "Going into the All-Star break I thought our season was outstanding and thought that we could make a playoff run. It didn't work out that way." Selanne had a goal and assist for the Ducks (42-33-7), who could have leapt over Columbus, which lost earlier Saturday, for the sixth spot in the West with a victory. However, with 91 points, Anaheim moved alone into seventh, one point ahead of idle St. Louis. The Blues finish their regular season on Sunday. Jonas Hiller started the contest and surrendered four goals on 24 shots through two periods. Giguere finished the game by stopping all nine shots he faced. Reinprecht picked up a power-play goal for Phoenix 3:48 into the contest, and Erik Christensen netted a power-play marker for Anaheim 2:39 into the second period. Fedoruk put the Coyotes back on top at the seven-minute mark, then Reinprecht connected on another man-advantage at 12:21. Corey Perry brought the Ducks back within a goal inside the final two minutes with Anaheim on the power play, but Lisin struck for a 4-2 Phoenix edge with six seconds to go. Anaheim tallied twice in a 45-second span early in the third to tie the game as Bobby Ryan hit the net at 5:02 and Selanne followed at 5:47. Bryzgalov kept the game alive, denying Andrew Ebbett on a breakaway with less than a minute to play in overtime. "We made the mistakes, with and without the puck," said Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle. "You shouldn't be giving up four goals in playoff-type games. We worked hard, battled back and we'll stick with the preparation for the next couple of days." Game Notes The Ducks won the season series, 4-1-1...It was a season-high for points in a game by Reinprecht, who last had four points in a contest on January 2, 2008 at Colorado.
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FOOTBALL TRASH TALKNFL Football Trash TalkTrash 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. |
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