Friday, October 08, 2010

Helsinki: Home For Hurricanes

hurricanes,wildThe Carolina Hurricanes managed to take both games of their series with the Minnesota Wild in Helsinki, Finland, which was a part of the NHL Premiere series in Europe to start the year.

The Hurricanes took the first game on Thursday by a score of 4-3, in a very spread out scoring display between both teams.  Cam Ward and Jussi Jokinen led the way for drafted players from Carolina, each picking up a pair of points in the victory.  Undrafted Brandon Sutter also had a couple of points in the win, helping his cause of being a waiver draft pick up in the middle of December.

In the second game on Friday, the Hurricanes and Wild played a much tighter affair with defense and goaltending playing the biggest part.  However, it was Cam Ward who was leading the way for the drafted players, picking up the 2-1 victory in the shootout, Niklas Backstrom not getting anything for the Wild, since I don't believe in the pity point in the standings, so there shouldn't be one in the pool for an overtime loss.

With all of that being said, I have revised the table of players who were drafted in the pool, taking part in this series, to show the number of points they picked up for their pool teams.

Carolina Hurricanes         Minnesota Wild
Cam Ward, GDale B.4Antti Miettinen, FBenson1
Joni Pitkanen, DDerek1Brent Burns, DChris1
Joe Corvo, DDon1Marek Zidlicky, DDerek0
Eric Staal, FKristy & Don0Andrew Brunette, FDon1
Jussi Jokinen, FLarry3Mikko Koivu, FJani2
Zach Boychuk, FStacey0Martin Havlat, FKristy & Don1
Anton Babchuk, DStacey1Cam Barker, DKristy & Don1
Jamie McBain, DWes1Gui Latendresse, FKristy & Don1
Niklas Backstrom, GPeter0

Dale B. was the biggest winner out of this series, having his only player pick up 4 points for his team over the past couple of days, while Larry was pretty happy to pick up 3 points from his only player.  Kristy & Don had four players in this series, but only managed 3 points in total, which has to be kind of a let down.

Stay tuned to the blog, to see how the other two NHL Premiere series fare for our poolies.

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