NHL Hockey Betting

NY KNICKS 138, GOLDEN STATE 125
NEW YORK This is what Mike DAntoni meant when he said the New York Knicks recent trade for Al Harrington would make them a better team.
Harrington broke out against his former team, registering a season-high 36 points and 12 boards to lead the Knicks best offensive output of the season [...]

Golden State scoring leader Stephen Jackson missed the Warriors’ game against New York on Saturday night because of a sprained left wrist.
Jackson was hurt sometime during the Warriors’ five-game trip and aggravated the injury in a 112-97 loss at Cleveland on Friday night.
Marco Belinelli got his first start of the season in place of Jackson.
Jackson [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins recalled forward Janne Pesonen from their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm club for Friday night’s game in Buffalo.
Penguins center Max Talbot has an injured left foot, so Pesonen was brought up for the second time this month to fill a roster spot. Pesonen made his NHL debut Nov. 1 in St. Louis, but did not [...]

Craig Rivet was asked for his thoughts on the Buffalo Sabres team he captains. A smile spread across his face. Then a bit of a grimace appeared.
Yup, that pretty much sums up the season.
The Sabres will try to fashion their first winning streak in more than three weeks tonight when Pittsburgh visits HSBC Arena. They [...]

Former NHL agent David Frost was acquitted Friday of sexual exploitation while coaching in a junior league in Canada.
Frost was charged with four counts of sexual exploitation from his time as a coach of the now-defunct Ontario junior A Quinte Hawks in eastern Ontario in 1996 and 1997. A judge found him not guilty on [...]

WASHINGTON 3, MONTREAL 0
WASHINGTON Jose Theodore stopped all 28 shots he faced and Tomas Fleischmann scored a first-period goal as the Washington Capitals skated to a 3-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens.
Theodore turned aside six shots in the first, 13 in the second and nine in the third en route to his first shutout of [...]

Jokinen sidelined by shoulder injury. Phoenix Coyotes center Olli Jokinen will be sidelined for at least two weeks by a shoulder injury, ending his consecutive games streak at 397.
Jokinen, the team’s second-leading scorer with seven goals and 18 points, was injured in the first period Wednesday night at Columbus when he was checked hard into [...]

National Hockey League Capsules for Thursday.
OTTAWA 2, TORONTO 1 (SO)
OTTAWA An eventful day for the Toronto Maple Leafs ended with a thud.
Captain Daniel Alfredsson tallied in the third round of a shootout and the Ottawa Senators skated to a 2-1 victory over the Maple Leafs, who are expected to announce Brian Burke as their new [...]

Bruins send Lashoff to Providence. The Bruins reassigned defenseman Matt Lashoff to the team’s AHL affiliate in Providence on Thursday.
The 22-year-old Lashoff was called up Nov. 19 and was a healthy scratch for the Bruins’ last three games.
Before rejoining Boston, Lashoff had 3 goals, 10 assists and 21 penalty minutes in 15 games for Providence.
Lashoff [...]

Bep Guidolin, youngest to skate in NHL, dies at 82. Armand “Bep” Guidolin, who at 16 became the youngest player to skate in an NHL game and later coached Bobby Orr, has died. He was 82.
He died of a stroke at Royal Victoria Hospital on Monday night, his family said.
Guidolin was 16 years, 11 months [...]