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5/20/2013 Francois Beauchemin, D Beauchemin has undergone successful reconstructive surgery on a ligament in his right knee, the Anaheim Ducks announced Monday.

Analysis: The defenseman hopes to return in time for the start of next season. Beauchemin, who turns 33 next month, played the past month with a torn ligament in his knee. He had surgery last Thursday, shortly after the Ducks were eliminated from the first round of the playoffs. Beauchemin had an outstanding season for the Ducks, getting six goals and 18 assists with a plus-19 rating. He also was the team's co-scoring leader in the postseason with six points.
5/20/2013 John Scott, LW The Buffalo Sabres have re-signed rugged fourth-line forward John Scott to a one-year contract. The team announced the signing on Monday morning.

Analysis: Listed at 6-foot-8 and 270 pounds, Scott had no points and 69 penalty minutes in 34 games last season. The Sabres acquired Scott by signing him to a one-year contract in free agency last summer to add size and grit to their roster. Over five seasons, Scott has a goal and four assists and 305 penalty minutes in 180 career games.
5/20/2013 Colin Greening, LW Greening ended the longest game of this year's postseason with a backhander off a rebound 7:39 into the second OT, and the Senators' 2-1 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins cut their series deficit to 2-1 on Sunday night.

Analysis: Greening has three goals in eight playoff games this season. He had one assist in seven contests last season.
5/19/2013 Logan Couture, C Couture returned from a second-period injury to score a power-play goal 1:29 into overtime that helped the Sharks bounce back from two losses in Los Angeles to beat the Kings 2-1 in Game 3 on Saturday night.

Analysis: Couture has a team-best 10 points in this postseason with four goals and six assists. He had a career-high 14 points in 18 playoffs games in 2011.
5/18/2013 Sidney Crosby, C Crosby had his second career playoff hat trick and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Friday night to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Analysis: Crosby beat Craig Anderson three times in the game's first 22 minutes, sending the goalie to the bench after stopping 18 of 21 shots. The Pittsburgh captain became the fifth player in franchise history to record 100 playoff points in spectacular fashion. He has six goals and six assists in this postseason.
5/18/2013 Eric Staal, C The Carolina Hurricanes say they expect captain Eric Staal to be ready to start next season after suffering a scary-looking knee injury during an international tournament. The team said Staal underwent an MRI on his right knee Saturday and it revealed a third-degree sprain of his medial collateral ligament.

Analysis: The Hurricanes say Staal won't need surgery and he should need only three months of rehab. Staal's injury Thursday during the world hockey quarterfinals in Stockholm certainly could have been a lot worse. The captain of Canada's team collapsed to the ice in obvious pain following a knee-to-knee collision with Sweden's Alex Edler. The durable Staal, 28, has missed only 14 games during nine NHL seasons. He led the Hurricanes with 35 assists and 53 points in 2012-13.
5/17/2013 Anze Kopitar, C Kopitar won't allow a puck to the face to keep him out of the Los Angeles Kings' title defense. Kopitar missed only a few minutes of the Kings' 4-3 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night after a third-period shot by teammate Dustin Brown hit him in the left side of his face above his upper lip.

Analysis: After roughly 20 stitches and an uncomfortable night of sleep, Kopitar returned to practice at the Kings' training complex on Friday. He says he's ready to play in Game 3 on Saturday night at the Shark Tank.
5/17/2013 Eric Boulton, LW Boulton re-signed with the New York Islanders on Friday, agreeing to a one-year contract.

Analysis: The 36-year-old Boulton had 36 penalty minutes in 15 games this season for New York. He has 27 goals, 46 assists and 1,301 penalty minutes in 615 career NHL games with Buffalo, Atlanta, New Jersey and the Islanders.
5/17/2013 Viktor Stalberg, LW Chicago Blackhawks forward Viktor Stalberg worked outside of the top four lines in practice once again Friday, and he said coach Joel Quenneville wants him "to produce more and be more effective."

Analysis: Stalberg was benched for Game 1 and Quenneville declined to say if he would play on Saturday. The speedy Stalberg had nine goals and 14 assists in 47 games this season. He has one goal and three assists in 18 career postseason contests.
5/17/2013 Jarret Stoll, C Stoll has an undisclosed injury for the Kings.

Analysis: Stoll's injury has not been disclosed so the Stanley Cup champs are very tight-lipped about what is going on.
5/17/2013 Brad Marchand, C Marchand scored with 4:20 left in the first overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 3-2 in the first playoff game in 40 years between the Original Six teams.

Analysis: Marchand, Boston's top goal scorer in the regular season, got his first of the postseason on a pass from Patrice Bergeron. Marchand has 67 goals in the last three seasons and scored 18 in 2012-13, but he has two goals in his last 15 playoff games.
5/16/2013 Raffi Torres, LW San Jose Sharks forward Raffi Torres was suspended for the rest of the Western Conference semifinal series against Los Angeles on Thursday for a hit to Kings forward Jarret Stoll's head. Torres was assessed a minor penalty for charging for the second-period hit Tuesday night in the Kings' 2-0 victory in Game 1. Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Torres is considered a repeat offender.

Analysis: While playing for Phoenix last season, Torres received a 21-game suspension - initially 25 games - for a high hit on Chicago star Marian Hossa in the first round of the playoffs. Torres was suspended for two games in January 2012 for charging Minnesota defenseman Nate Prosser and for four games in April 2011 for a hit to the head of Edmonton's Jordan Eberle while playing for Vancouver.
5/16/2013 Rob Klinkhammer, LW The Phoenix Coyotes re-signed forward Rob Klinkhammer to a two-year contract Thursday.

Analysis: The 6-foot-3, 214-pound Klinkhammer had five goals and six assists in 22 games for the Coyotes this season. He has five goals and eight assists in 38 career games for Chicago, Ottawa and Phoenix.
5/16/2013 Alex Ovechkin, LW Ovechkin played the last two games of the Washington Capitals' season with what the team says is a hairline fracture in his left foot.

Analysis: Capitals spokesman Sergey Kocharov writes in an email to The Associated Press on Thursday that Ovechkin's foot was hurt during Game 6 of Washington's first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers. Washington lost that game 1-0 Sunday, and then lost 5-0 Monday in Game 7.
5/16/2013 Niklas Backstrom, G Backstrom has undergone sports hernia surgery. The team announced that Backstrom's operation went as planned on Thursday morning in Philadelphia. The procedure was done by Dr. William Meyers. The 35-year-old Backstrom aggravated the injury while warming up before Minnesota's first game of the Western Conference quarterfinal series at Chicago on April 30. Josh Harding was sent in to replace him, and Backstrom was unable to play the rest of the series.

Analysis: The Wild have said Backstrom is expected to be fully recovered for the start of next season. Whether he's still in the net for them is another matter. Backstrom will become an unrestricted free agent in July. He has played all seven of his NHL seasons with the Wild.
5/16/2013 Patrick Sharp, LW Sharp had a goal and two assists as the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 in the opener of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night.

Analysis: Sharp has a team-best six goals and nine points in this postseason. He had six points (four goals, two assists) in 13 games during the Blackhawks' previous two playoff appearances.
5/15/2013 Viktor Stalberg, LW Stalberg will not play in Game 1 of the Chicago Blackhawks' second-round playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings.

Analysis: Coach Joel Quenneville says it's a "coach's decision" and Stalberg could get back on the ice at any point in the series. He says he has talked to Stalberg about the decision to bench him for Wednesday night's series opener. Stalberg, one of the fastest skaters on the team, has been working outside of the top four lines in practice, so the move was not a complete surprise
5/14/2013 Alex Ovechkin, LW Ovechkin knows full well that his playoff failures are adding up.

Analysis: Meeting with reporters Tuesday, a day after Washington's 5-0 home loss to the New York Rangers in Game 7 of a first-round series, the Russian wing says: "Nobody remember losers. Everybody remember only winners." During Ovechkin's career, Washington has won three of nine playoff series and never advanced past the second round.
5/14/2013 Alex Ovechkin, LW Ovechkin will join Russia's team at the ice hockey world championships in Finland.

Analysis: It will be Ovechkin's ninth appearance in the tournament. He helped Russia win the gold medal last year and in 2008. He has 26 goals and 18 assists in 55 games. The news that he'll play for Russia comes Tuesday, a day after Ovechkin's Capitals were eliminated in the first round of the NHL playoffs with a 5-0 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 7 of their best-of-seven series.
5/14/2013 Tomas Vokoun, G The Penguins are sticking with Vokoun for Game 1 in the second round against Ottawa on Tuesday.

Analysis: The 36-year-old Vokoun replaced struggling starter Marc-Andre Fleury and won Games 5 and 6 of Pittsburgh's first-round playoff series with the New York Islanders last week. He stopped 66 of the 69 shots he faced against the Islanders as the Penguins advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals for the first time in three years.
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