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A QUICK Look Back……

After the wilderness was encountered yesterday, there are 13 NHL games tonight. Rejoice hockey fans! Yes Jack Johnson “Tebowed” after scoring last night but it had to be weird to see the look of Jonathan Quick on the bench of near disgust as the Los Angeles Kings scored FIVE times in a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals. Last week, Quick got a grand total of two goals of support then Jonathan Bernier gets five. Surely, the company line was towed after the game but hopefully the Kings score a few more goals for Quick in the future because that 2.09 goals per game (going into last night) is horrendous for a team with much more talent.

Roberto Luongo found out first hand that there is such a thing as big game hangover last night as the Florida Panthers held on for a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks. Luongo watched his team in front of him sleepwalk through a second period that had them firing two pucks on Scott Clemmensen and generating no scoring chances. Yes Vancouver woke up in the third but literally the hangover from Boston was understandable yet so blatantly obvious. In the end, that hangover cost Luongo a fantasy win and more importantly for Vancouver two points. That is not to disrespect Florida in any way but on most nights, Vancouver wins that game. It is just fact.

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INJURY UPDATE:

Chad LaRose, F, Carolina Hurricanes — As this has floated around Twitter for the past half hour or so, LaRose is injured a bit more serious than people originally thought this morning. As Chip Alexander writes HERE, LaRose seemed to ring his bell Monday during a practice drill. Officially it is listed as an upper body injury but fantasy hockey fans, you know the drill. An emergency recall seems to indicate that LaRose will be out tonight versus Philadelphia.

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