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WATCH ANAHEIM DUCKS VS DALLAS STARS LIVE ONLINE NHL HOCKEY GAME JANUARY 24, 2012

2012-01-24T06:21:00.000-08:00

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The Ducks have seen this Jonas Hiller before, and, ironically, it is when the new calendar year begins.

Like he did last January when he took his game to a level that got him his first All-Star game appearance, Hiller is as hot as it gets after making 43 saves to match his season high in a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday night.

Hiller has won five straight starts and is 6-0-1 with a 1.50 goals-against average and a .947 save percentage in his last eight appearances. His top-notch goaltending was especially needed on a night when the Ducks didn't have much in the tank after beating Ottawa the day before.

After not recording his 10th victory until Jan. 6 and watching his goals-against soar over 3.00, Hiller is now 15-17-7 with a 2.85 goals-against. Ducks winger Bobby Ryan admitted that "we needed him to answer the bell" after being outshot, 45-18.

"I think he's seeing the puck very well," Ryan said. "He's been a great backstop over the nine-game run we're on. You don't want to speak too soon (but) if he continues to do it, some good things can happen.

"We'll just continue to count on him back there because he hasn't let us down much."

Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau wondered aloud last week why Hiller wasn't selected as one of the NHL's three stars from games played from Jan. 9-15 and now he figures he has more ammunition to state his case.

"In this run, he's been spectacular," Boudreau said. "I'm putting my dibs in right now. If he's not player of the week, player of the month here ... it's bad enough they don't even sometimes know we exist out here in Anaheim that I'm learning quickly.

"I hope they do take notice of how well he's played and give him some recognition."

When asked if he felt he's playing at his best this season, Hiller deflected the praise.

"I think that the whole team is playing its best hockey, which makes life easier for me too," he said. "We block more shots. We're closer to the guys. They don't turn the puck over that often. ... It's easier to play if everybody plays with confidence."

Since Glen Gulutzan was hired to coach the Stars in June 2011, one of his mantras has been for his team to play hard and be focused for a full 60 minutes. Well, the Stars didn't exactly stick to that formula in a 5-2 loss at Minnesota on Saturday.

Dallas was riding pretty high after Eric Nystrom, who was traded from Minnesota to Dallas in October 2011, scored his 14th goal of the year in the opening period, sending the visitors to the break with a 1-0 lead.

But 9:06 into the second period, a power play goal by the Wild's Devin Setoguchi at 9:06 tied the game 1-1. Dallas responded almost two minutes later when rookie defenseman Philip Larsen connected for his first career tally.

However, the game quickly unraveled for Dallas in a matter of minutes. After Cal Clutterbuck's 12th of the year at 13:37 of the second tied it at 2-2, Minnesota added two more within 45 seconds to lead 4-2.

"I guess if I could get a rewind on that after they got that 3-2 goal, maybe I should have called a timeout, but I thought we could handle that as a group," Gulutzan said.

Once again, the Dallas head coach was left to lament an effort y his club that lasted less than the full 60 minutes.

"We had a good 28 minutes there, playing the way we wanted to play but we gave them life," Gulutzan said. "A couple little, sloppy plays, one on the penalty kill cost us a goal and that's it. That's the ballgame."

Unfortunately, Dallas has put themselves behind the eight ball in similar fashion on several occasions this season, either surrendering several goals in quick fashion or allowing one right after a game-tying or go-ahead tally. But the good news is all of this is definitely fixable.

"When you get down in another person's building by two in the second, in your second in as many nights, it's going to wear on your guys," Gulutzan said. "We just can't put ourselves in that situation."

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It has become almost a certainty. The Predators almost always defeat the Columbus Blue Jackets at home.

Since April 3, 2006, Columbus has won just once at Bridgestone Arena. The trend continued Monday as the Predators jumped on the Blue Jackets early on their way to a 4-1 win.

A lot of Nashville's recent success has stemmed from goaltender Pekka Rinne. In Rinne's last 12 games, he has allowed just 20 goals. He ranks ninth in save percentage at .924 and has climbed up the goals-against average rankings to 14th at 2.39.

Nashville has proved slightly better this season than last season's group stacked with veterans. That team had 60 points through 49 games. This season the Predators have 62 points through the same number.

Before the start of the season, general manager David Poile said the Predators would be better in the second half of the season than the first. Sure enough, since the Predators hit game 41, they've lost only once.

Nashville has a big game against Chicago on Tuesday. With a win, the Predators could pull even with the Blackhawks at 64 points apiece. Though the Predators have won 11 of 13, it feels as if they've been stuck in sixth place in the Western Conference for a long time. This is their chance to finally make up some visible ground.

The Central Division is getting tighter and tighter with every day that passes. From top to the bottom, there isn't a tougher division in the NHL right now.

With the Predators' 5-2 victory over the Blackhawks on Saturday at Bridgestone Arena, they become the fourth team in the Central to hit the 60-point mark this season. The Central is the only division with four teams to do that.

"You look at the closeness of all four teams (in the Central Division)," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville told reporters. "It's pretty amazing at this time in the season, in one division, that four teams are pushing each other on a night to night basis, even though some nights you're not even playing them."

With the loss, the Hawks dropped to third in the division as the Red Wings and Blues also won on Saturday. The Hawks are 0-1-1 against the Predators this season. In those two games, the offensively challenged Predators have scored a total 10 goals.

On Saturday, the Hawks looked like they had little in them.

"We didn't have a lot of juice in the tank tonight as far as puck support," Quenneville said after Corey Crawford was pulled in the second period after allowing three goals in a decisive third period by the Predators.

Craig Smith (power play), Kevin Klein, Colin Wilson, Patric Hornqvist and Sergei Kostitsyn scored for the Predators, who got a strong game from Pekka Rinne in goal. Marian Hossa was the only bright spot for the Hawks. He scored twice, but it wasn't nearly enough.

It was the Hawks' first regulation loss since Jan. 6, ending a three-game win streak and an eight-game streak where they earned at least a point. The Hawks get a chance at revenge Tuesday at the United Center against the Predators. It's their final game before the All-Star break.

"Nashville's a playoff team, and they're looking to push to the top of the division," Quenneville said. "You know they're not going away. Let's make sure that we take care of our own business."

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The Penguins are used to two superstar players carrying their offense. Only this time, Sidney Crosby isn't involved.

With Crosby still out of the lineup and his return date unknown, his normal partner in crime, Evgeni Malkin, is joining forces with right wing James Neal to provide the Penguins with arguably the league's finest one-two punch. Malkin and Neal were dominant forces again Sunday as the Penguins defeated the Washington Capitals 4-3 in overtime at Consol Energy Center.

Malkin and Neal both have 26 goals this season after Neal scored twice and Malkin once.

Both of Neal's goals were set up by Malkin, and both came via his blistering wrist shot. In the first period, Malkin won a faceoff cleanly to Neal, who was positioned to take a shot. He did so, blowing a heavy shot past Washington goaltender Michal Neuvirth.

Then, with the Penguins trailing by a goal in the third period, Malkin created enough room for Neal so that the hulking right wing could again unleash his heavy shot. Another high blast, this one beat Neuvirth to the short side.

Overtime was Malkin's time to do the scoring. Neal missed a shot from the center point, but the bounced off the boards and went right to Malkin's stick. The center quickly lifted a shot over a diving Neuvirth, who wasn't able to get to the left post in time.

Malkin was leading the NHL with 58 points after Sunday's games. He has scored seven goals in the third period or overtime during his last five games, all Pittsburgh victories.

Neal and Malkin were on the ice for all of the Penguins' four goals against the Capitals.

The Penguins return to action Tuesday night in St. Louis against the Blues. That is their final game before the All-Star break.

The Blues appear to be on the verge of consistently competing with the NHL's big boys, but as they showed in Monday's 3-1 loss to Detroit, they're not quite there yet.

With a chance to jump over Detroit into No. 1 in the NHL standings, the Blues failed to withstand a Red Wings charge for the third straight time the teams have met in the last month.

The Blues led 1-0 on Scott Nichol's second goal of the season, but Detroit answered with two power-play goals, including a dandy by Pavel Datsyuk.

"Obviously these guys are one of those teams that you try to measure yourself against, and in this building especially, they're a very good team," Blues forward Jamie Langenbrunner said. "We've played with them in stretches. But in the end, we've kind of crumbled when the boys got a little rough. The game gets turned up a notch and we take awhile to catch back up to it. It's caught us. We start reacting instead of initiating the play."

Datsyuk deked Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo before lifting a backhand shot upstairs on goalie Jaroslav Halak.

"You've got to give credit -- it's a good play," Pietrangelo said. "It happened. It's just one mistake that you have to move on from."

The Blues had outshot their last eight opponents, but they were outshot 28-22 by the Red Wings on Monday. Trailing 2-1, they had only three shots on goal in the first 12 1/2 minutes in the third period. Chris Stewart had a breakaway shot but was stopped by Jimmy Howard.

"Facing an NHL all-star ..." Stewart said. "You're obviously going to have to bear down when you get chances like that. He definitely played well tonight, and he made some big saves for them."

The Blues will go back to the drawing board.

"We had our chances when it was 2-1 in the third," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "But you're going to have to score more one goal on the road to win. It was a playoff game. Their best players scored when they needed to score. We didn't get it done."

The Blues will be home against Pittsburgh on Tuesday in their final game before the All-Star break.

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Scott Hartnell might become more of a family man soon. This weekend he scored five goals, all in front of his dad.

Bill Hartnell was in Newark, N.J., on Saturday when Scott scored two goals, both on the power play, against the Devils. Then he witnessed a natural hat trick for his son in Philadelphia on Sunday in a 6-5 shootout loss to the Bruins.

"Yeah, he was sort of 'on,' I guess you'd say," said Bill. "Opportunities were there, eh? Linemates are getting him the puck and he happened to be able to connect in his spot. It was pretty exciting."

Sounds like the elder Hartnell might be a lucky charm. So much so that Jaromir Jagr broke up the interview to ask Bill, "Did the Flyers just offer you two years, $6 million? Scottie's going to have to take a pay cut a little bit. You've got until tomorrow. Make a decision."

"I need an agent," said the retired teacher and principal from Lloydminster, Alberta.

"I'll be the agent," said Jagr, who knows a thing or two about the hockey business, given that he owns a team in the KHL. "Five percent."

The good luck charm has been around for the last two games and will be with the Flyers in Sunrise, Fla., on Tuesday when they face the Panthers. But then the team will break for the All-Star Game. Perhaps the trip won't end there.

Scott has 25 goals and 19 assists. He's tied for fifth in the league in goals and first in power play goals with 12. But he's not an All-Star. Not yet, anyway.

If someone backs out because of injury -- and some think Minnesota's Mikko Koivu might do just that -- Hartnell is believed to be on the short list of possible additions to the game. His career high is 60 points, a feat he accomplished three years ago with the Flyers when he had 30 goals and 30 assists. He's on pace for 44 goals and 33 assists for 77 points, but he's trying not to think about the All-Star Game.

"I have plans made already," said Scott. "But, obviously, if the call does come, I'll be there in a heartbeat. That's about it."

Toeing the family line, Bill says he won't let himself think about his son's potential to go to his first All-Star Game, either.

"No, what happens, happens," said the elder Hartnell. "It's a big league and there are a lot of good players out there. Sure, it's a feather to be asked to go, but there's an awful lot of other ones, too."

While the Hartnells aren't thinking about a trip to Ottawa toward the end of this week, they are certainly relishing the moment. Not getting a call from the NHL hockey ops team won't take away from Hartnell's sixth career hat trick, his fifth with the Flyers.

"To see the smile on his face afterward is special for me," said Scott. "He's probably watched 1,000 or 1,500 games that I've played traveling all around Western Canada growing up and watched every game on the NHL Network. To have him here and have a good game was pretty nice."

This is the 10th such trip Bill Hartnell has made with Scott in his NHL career. Most teams now have a couple of games out of their schedule where the players' fathers join them for a trip. This season's adventure might end on Tuesday in Florida. The only thing better than an ending on the beach might be a trip up north for the All-Star Game. There's still time to change those plans.

It wasn't the prettiest way to earn two points.

They blew a two-goal lead, two different leads in the third period and eventually had to win in a shootout, but considering the circumstances surrounding the Florida Panthers prior to their 4-3 shootout victory over the Winnipeg Jets at MTS Centre Saturday night, they'll take it.

Thanks to a snowstorm, a late flight out of Chicago Friday brought the Panthers into the Manitoba capital at 3 o'clock in the morning, making an already difficult task of playing back-to-back nights that much harder.

Said Florida head coach Kevin Dineen: "It was interesting. Both planes were lined up right next to each other. We had a little money on the line to see if we could pull out early (before the Blackhawks plane, which was headed to Nashville), but that was not going to happen. They had the ground-crew advantage."

The Panthers next see action Tuesday when they welcome the Philadelphia Flyers to the BankAtlantic Center. Following that, the club settles into an extended rest period as the NHL's All-Star break closes out the week.

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The signing of veteran defenseman Brett Lebda has taken on added importance in recent weeks as Blue Jackets defenseman keep falling prey to injuries.

Nikita Nikitin was the latest to be sidelined, suffering a left knee injury that will keep him out of the lineup indefinitely.

He joins James Wisniewski, who is still weeks away with a fractured left ankle, and Radek Martinek, who is out for the season with a lingering concussion.

"It's not how you want to get into the lineup, but I'm excited for this opportunity and I hope to make the most of it," Lebda said. "This organization gave me a chance (in November) to come and play with them in the minor leagues, and this is the opportunity I was hoping for when I decided to join them."

The Blue Jackets wasted no time getting Lebda up to speed. He made his Columbus debut in Monday's 4-1 loss in Nashville, pairing with Fedor Tyutin on the No. 1 pair and playing 21 minutes, 14 seconds. Lebda, 30, has played in 367 NHL games with Detroit and Toronto.

Columbus' final game before the All-Star break is Tuesday at Tampa Bay.

While the injury bug has taken its toll on the Lightning throughout the season, it has also forced some shuffling around on the team's penalty-kill unit among the forwards.

Last season, Tampa Bay head coach Guy Boucher primarily used the same four forwards to kill penalties -- Nate Thompson, Adam Hall, Dominic Moore and Dana Tyrell. This year, Tom Pyatt replaced Tyrell, who started the season playing in the minors, while Ryan Shannon has also taken turns in the rotation.

But Hall has been out for the past two weeks and is not expected back until late February, Pyatt has missed the past two games with a lower-body injury and Shannon has been out since Dec. 21 with a knee strain. Now Boucher is having to include Ryan Malone, Steven Stamkos, Marty St. Louis and Vinny Lecavalier into the mix on occasions.

They were all counted on once again to help kill penalties in Tampa Bay's 4-3 victory over Phoenix on Saturday.

"What I think becomes imperative is that when they are in the penalty-kill meeting, they are extremely aware of what the penalty kill needs to do," Boucher said. "Penalty kill is like the power play; it's down-to-the-minute details ... and I think our top-end guys are really paying attention to make sure they know what is going on."

Boucher will likely have to dig a little deeper for help on the penalty kill on Tuesday against Columbus after Malone was injured early against Phoenix and is not expected to be ready to return.

WATCH BUFFALO SABRES VS NEW JERSEY DEVILS LIVE STREAM NHL HOCKEY GAME JANUARY 24, 2012

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The losses continue to mount for the lethargic Buffalo Sabres, and there's little reason to believe that an end to this ugly skid that has sent them tumbling to the bottom of the Eastern Conference will stop anytime soon. The Sabres lost their 12th straight on the road -- and fifth consecutive overall -- when they dropped a 4-2 decision to the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night. The loss put Buffalo in a tie with Carolina for last place in the East.

"It's embarrassing," left wing Thomas Vanek said. "Since day one when I got here, I always prided myself -- and it's what I learned from the older guys -- to be a good road team, which I thought we've always done a great job at. Right now, it's a mistake and it goes south for us."

The Sabres scored the first goal of the game Saturday, and had the league's best home team on the ropes with a terrific start that featured a tenacious forecheck while generating scoring chances over the first 20 minutes. But the Blues recovered, and outshot the Sabres 19-12 over the final two periods to drop Buffalo to 3-12-2 over its last 17 games.

Fittingly, the Sabres were able to muster a mere three shots in the third period when they entered the final frame down by a pair of goals and in need of some desperation.

"Not acceptable," coach Lindy Ruff said. "A lack of discipline in different areas really hurt us."

Even a shakeup of the forward lines couldn't help the Sabres solve their offensive woes. Ruff slid Luke Adam between Jason Pominville and Vanek on the top line before replacing Adam with Derek Roy as the game went along. But with everything going wrong during this five-game slide in which they've been outscored 23-7, there seems to be no simple solution.

The Sabres continue their season-long seven-game road trip on Tuesday against the New Jersey Devils, Buffalo's final game before the All-Star break.

With points at a premium in the race to the playoffs, this is not a great time for the Devils to start losing hockey games. It's also not a great time for them to stop scoring goals. Or for giving up power-play goals.

In other words, crunch time is here, and the Devils have scored twice in losing back-to-back games, both at home, to the Bruins and Flyers, respectively, scoring one goal in each game.

Sure, the competition is a step up from the Oilers and Jets, the teams New Jersey won three in a row against recently. But somewhere along the line, a team has to develop the ability to beat good teams.

They ended their 4-1 loss to the Flyers Saturday seventh in the Eastern Conference, three points ahead of the Maple Leafs as the rest of the league still had games to play. They are 1-2 on the current six-game homestand, with the Sabres coming to town Tuesday for the final game before the All-Star break.

"It's frustrating," coach Pete DeBoer said Saturday. "You want to send a message. (It was) two teams ahead of us in the standings. There's an opportunity to really take a step. We didn't.

"But there's a lot of hockey left to play and the next time we get a chance at these guys, we've got to figure out how to bridge that gap."

The Devils are 2-6-1 against the top four teams in the Eastern Conference.

"That's not a very good stat when you're looking to climb up in the standings," said captain Zach Parise. "You've got to beat the teams above you. So, we've got to do a better job. We win this game, all the sudden we're two points behind them (the Flyers). Now, it's six. So, that's frustrating.

"A team ahead of you like that, you want to catch them. The same with Boston the other night. If you want to catch them, it's tough when you don't beat them head to head."

Newly acquired left wing Alexei Ponikarovsky scored New Jersey's only goal in the loss, as the Devils, 5-4-1 in their last 10 games (2-3 at home over that span), yielded two power-play goals and went 0-for-6 with the advantage as Martin Brodeur lost in goal.

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The Bruins won a hockey game in Philadelphia on Sunday. But the inconsistencies that have been plaguing the Stanley Cup champions recently are still very much in evidence.

The B's are 3-2-1 in their last six games. They have allowed 21 goals in those six games. Sunday, they failed to hold leads of 3-1 and 5-4 and finally won the hard-fought game in a shootout.

Wins by a 6-5 score are not something coach Claude Julien wants his players to make a habit of. And when the Bruins are playing well, that doesn't happen.

"As a goalie, I would prefer to go to shootout at 1-1 or 2-2," goalie Tim Thomas said after the wild afternoon. "We need to improve.

"We played some real good hockey a majority of the year. We've found a way to get points. It's nice to win, but we want to do it the right way."

But even though things aren't perfect, the Bruins, 28-6-2 since starting the season 3-7, did get three of a possible four points on the weekend and were tied with the Rangers for first place in the Eastern Conference through Sunday. New York was officially in first because of regulation/overtime wins.

Center David Krejci and right wing Tyler Seguin scored and Thomas stopped two of three Flyers attempts to allow the Bruins, who beat the Flyers 6-0 in Philly on Dec. 17, to escape.

Centers Patrice Bergeron, Krejci and Gregory Campbell, left wing Milan Lucic and Seguin scored goals in regulation, where Philadelphia's Scott Hartnell registered a natural hat trick in the second period.

The Bruins' final game before the All-Star break is Tuesday night at Washington.

The NHL has suspended Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin for three games for a hit he delivered during Saturday's game, the league announced Monday.

While Ovechkin and Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Zbynek Michalek fought for a loose puck along the boards, Ovechkin delivered a blow to Michalek's head. No penalty was called on the play at the time.

In explaining the NHL's punishment, head disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan said Ovechkin could have delivered a clean body check, but he launched himself at Michalek, causing contact to the head.

Ovechkin's prior history was also taken into account. He has been suspended twice and fined twice previously.

Even though he is suspended, Ovechkin will be eligible to play in Sunday's All-Star Game in Ottawa.

Ovechkin has 20 goals and 19 assists this season.

--There was no Sidney Crosby, no Nicklas Backstrom and no Mike Green.

So Evgeni Malkin and Alex Ovechkin decided to do what they do best and became the human highlight reels of the Penguins' 4-3 overtime win over the Capitals in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

Both forwards scored a goal and assisted on two others, but it was Malkin having the last laugh with his game-winner 1:31 into overtime.

"(Malkin) played great," Ovechkin said after recording his first three-point game of the season. "He's controlling games right now. He knows that without Crosby this team is good but not that good, and he's handled it very well."

The Caps rebounded from a sloppy first period to take a 3-2 lead early in the third on Ovechkin's 20th goal of the season, but Malkin set up James Neal's game-tying goal later in the period and scored off a Neal rebound in OT.

The loss gave the Caps a 1-1-1 record on their three-game road trip. They have one more game -- at home against the Bruins -- before their six-day All-Star break.

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Give the Jets credit. They tried their hardest to tie the game Monday, but they just couldn't get the equalizer.

The Jets were all over the Carolina Hurricanes in the third period in Raleigh, N.C., outshooting them 14-2. They couldn't get a single puck past Cam Ward, however, and dropped a 2-1 decision.

Winnipeg's second-half swoon, which happened the last two years when the franchise was in Atlanta, appears to be well underway. The Jets have just three wins in 11 games this month. In addition, their road record fell to 7-13-4. The good news, however, is they are still only three points out of a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Once again, it was Winnipeg's inability to produce offense that was its undoing. Tanner Glass hit the post, Antti Miettinen couldn't get his stick on a puck that was sitting in the crease behind Ward, and Kyle Wellwood put a breakaway attempt over the net with two minutes to go.

Combine that with an uninspired start and Tim Brent's ugly goal on Chris Mason in the first period that proved to be the game-winner, and it was just another way for the Jets to lose.

"It was a terrible goal," said Mason, whose record against the Hurricanes dropped to 3-1 this season. "The guy was passing out front, and I left before it hit my stick and went in. It was a terrible goal, and it ended up being the game-winner."

Despite their woeful record thus far in 2012, the Jets are hanging in there. Only 10 points separates first from last in the Southeast Conference, and the Jets sit right in the middle. They have a glorious chance to go on their All-Star break on a high note on Tuesday when they battle the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.

"We haven't played great on the road, and we haven't won a back-to-back game," Wellwood said. "So confidence-wise, going into the break, we need to get something out of it."

Even if they don't get anything out of it, they will be right in the thick of things when play resumes next week. They need to start scoring some goals, however, if they're going to reverse what happened Monday.

Brad Richards was in the lineup for the Rangers' 3-2 overtime win over the Bruins on Saturday. The victory gives the Rangers 64 points and extends their lead over Boston to two points atop the Eastern Conference.

The star center still was peeved that he suffered what could have been a much more serious neck injury on a play he believed to be "slew-foot" by Penguins forward Matt Cooke in the Blueshirts' previous game Thursday at Madison Square Garden.

Richards sat out practice Friday with what he called a "stiff" and "locked up" neck after "snapping my neck pretty good" when he fell backward to the ice after his collision with Cooke in Thursday's second period.

"He just came up beside me, from behind, and slew-footed me," said Richards, who missed time because of a concussion last season while with Dallas. "I don't know what the definition of slew-foot is, but that's a slew-foot. I've played enough games to know what a slew-foot is."

According to the New York Daily News, the NHL will not levy supplementary discipline for Cooke's hit.

"It's a tough job for the league to monitor all those plays, (but) it's a slew-foot," Richards said. "He didn't come up and hit me face-to-face. He came up beside me and slew-footed me. It's a cheap play. ... The league does what they do. It's not like that's the first time he's ever done it. But it's their choice."

According to the Daily News' account, Cooke "skated toward Richards from the boards and bumped the back of Richards' right leg with his left leg, while sticking his left elbow into Richards' torso to tilt him back. Cooke then skated straight through, toppling Richards to the ice on his back."

Richards laid on the ice momentarily but didn't miss another shift in the second period, although he played just 2:38 in the third.

The Rangers play one more game before the All-Star break, at home Tuesday against Winnipeg.

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It has been 38 years since the Maple Leafs played the New York Islanders back to back, sweeping them in the winter of 1974.

With their 2012 playoff hopes in need of an All-Star break boost, the Leafs are hoping history repeats itself this week. They made it halfway on Monday, shutting down the Islanders 3-0 and ending the points streak of the red-hot John Tavares. The Toronto-area native had plenty on the line, with eight goals and 13 assists in 12 games and lots of crowd support.

But the Leafs, losers of five of their previous six and in danger of squandering a long homestand, blanked the surging Isles and stayed with the Eastern Conference playoff pack. Toronto could get back in the top eight on Tuesday with a win in Long Island.

Jonas Gustavsson kept his hands on the No. 1 goaltending job with 25 saves, three of them on Tavares. Coach Ron Wilson indicated Gustavsson would play again Tuesday. Center Matthew Lombardi scored twice for Toronto, and right wing Phil Kessel added his team-leading 26th.

"We want to have a good feeling going into the break," defenseman Mike Komisarek said. "We have a few points here and there the past couple of weeks, but more importantly, we want to do our work at home. These are the two biggest games of the year."

The Islanders had pointed to a home-and-home series with Toronto on consecutive nights this week as an opportunity to make some inroads in their quest to move up in the Eastern Conference standings before the All-Star break.

But the Isles flatlined in the opener of the two-game set Monday up north. Their meek 3-0 loss at Air Canada Centre halted their promising three-game winning streak.

"It's not good enough and we have to get back to the way we were doing things earlier in the week," said John Tavares, whose 12-game point streak also ended in the shutout. "We've had a couple slow starts, but for us, we have to be better right off the bat and establish our game."

The Isles (19-22-6) had won four of their previous five games to move within nine points of No. 8 Washington in the East, and they were seeking their first winning streak of as many as four games this season. But recent workhorse Evgeni Nabokov gave up a goal to Matthew Lombardi 97 seconds into the game, and the Isles never solved Toronto goalie Jonas Gustavsson thereafter.

The two teams will meet again Tuesday night at Nassau Coliseum.

"It's basically a must-win game," Matt Martin said. "We can't fall four games under .500 again. It'd be a tough climb back into this. Not impossible, but if we win (Tuesday), we're in the thick of things still."

Added Tavares: "Every game we play now is absolutely huge for us, especially against these teams. (These are) conference teams that we are battling in position with. We are still fighting hard and we still believe in here."

WATCH OTTAWA SENATORS VS LOS ANGELES KINGS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NHL HOCKEY GAME JANUARY 23, 2012

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The Senators finally left an opponent's building without taking at least a point with them.

Their 2-1 loss to the Ducks Saturday afternoon was the first time in a dozen, since Dec. 1, that they lost a road game in regulation time. In their 11 previous outings as the visiting team, they claimed 18 of a possible 22 points. They also had won five road games in a row before running into the Ducks.

Their loss in Anaheim was simply a matter of the odds catching up to them. The Senators have carved for themselves the reputation of being slow starters and strong finishers. Along with their league-leading six third-period come-from-behind victories, more often than not they also give up the first goal of the game. Saturday's loss was the fifth consecutive game in which they spotted their opponents at least a 1-0 lead. They had the chance to change the trend when Anaheim's Saku Koivu took a hooking penalty 1:21 in, but the Senators couldn't even manage a shot on goal during the two-minute power play.

"Obviously we would like to get off to a better start and try to get the first goal on the road," said captain Daniel Alfredsson. "It makes life a lot easier."

Life for the Senators includes two more games prior to the All-Star break. They stay in California to play the Los Angeles Kings Monday and then travel to Arizona for a date with the Phoenix Coyotes Tuesday.

It's acceptable in the NHL to have one dominant line if it's also being supported by some decent play from the other three lines. The Los Angeles Kings, though, have been far too top-heavy of late.

A couple weeks ago, in search of any time of scoring boost, coach Darryl Sutter put his top three scorers on the same line, with Anze Kopitar centering Dustin Brown and Justin Williams. It has worked, but little else has worked.

The Kings lost 3-1 to the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday. In the seven games since Sutter made the line changes, the Kings' forwards have scored a total of 15 goals. Ten of them have come from Brown, Kopitar and Williams. Kopitar got the only goal Saturday.

The Kings' second line has three veterans -- Dustin Penner, Jarret Stoll and Mike Richards -- who should be able to score -- but that trio had only one shot on goal (from Stoll) through two periods against Colorado.

Sutter tried to shake things up further in the third period, as he moved rookie Andrei Loktionov up with Richards and Penner, but it didn't lead to much.

"It's hard to get shots when you don't have everyone playing the right way, I guess," Kings captain Dustin Brown said. "It's going to take 20 guys. Tonight, I don't think we had 20. It's hard to say (how many they did have) right after a game. I'm sure it will be clear on video, but we need more. You need four lines if you want to win games in this league, bottom line."

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If the season series between San Jose and Vancouver proved anything, it's that little has changed since last postseason.

It also showed that, quite possibly, the Canucks are in the Sharks' heads.

Vancouver capped a 3-0-1 regular-season record against San Jose by winning, 4-3, at home on Saturday, the fourth straight one-goal decision in the series. The Canucks needed only five games to eliminate the Sharks in the Western Conference final last spring.

"Both of us are good teams, two of the better teams in the Western Conference -- tough games -- but they're fun to be a part of with such great teams playing each other," said Sharks forward Logan Couture, who scored two goals. "After they beat us last year in the playoffs you never like to lose to these guys, so it fires me up, and it fires a bunch of guys up in the room."

The Sharks might be fired up, but they certainly haven't solved the Canucks. And they haven't figured a way to earn two points in regulation against Vancouver this season.

"Another close one. These two teams play very good games against each other," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "The frustrating thing is we're aware of the mistakes we're making. Good teams make you pay for those errors and we're not making many."

The question general manager Doug Wilson must mull over is whether he needs to take into account his team's unfavorable results against Vancouver before the trade deadline next month, or if he's confident the expected return of forwards Martin Havlat and Ryane Clowe will be enough to give the Sharks what they need in case they meet the Canucks in the playoffs again.

As for Vancouver, no one should expect the Canucks to look different or play otherwise if they should meet the Sharks again.

"They look pretty much the same. They made a couple of personnel changes, but they play the same system, a belief system that everybody follows and they're all buying into it," McLellan said.

A year in which the Edmonton Oilers were supposed to be taking a step forward has been nothing more than pratfalls instead.

They are today just like they were in each of the last two seasons, the worst team in the NHL.

With just five wins in their last 25 games and coming off a 6-2 loss Saturday to Calgary, they're getting worse instead of better.

"Confidence is a funny thing," said winger Ryan Jones. "When you have it you can beat anybody in the league and when you're without it you seem to lose to everybody in the league."

In the first two months of the season, the Oilers would lose with energy and passion, but more and more lately they seem to be coasting to the finish line, almost accepting the fact that they're not very good.

"We had a couple (stinkers) against Phoenix, we had one against Carolina here, we had one Friday night against LA," said head coach Tom Renney. "The last period on Long Island wasn't good. So we've had enough to suggest that it's problematic if we let it continue."

The Oilers are without rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and minus a couple of important bodies on defense in Tom Gilbert and Ryan Whitney, but Renney says that's no excuse for not bringing any emotion to the rink.

"It doesn't matter what our roster looks like, we have to play hard. We need to do that and those guys know it."

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Another loss and another Blue Jackets defenseman lost to injury.

Nikita Nikitin, who had played big minutes and surprisingly well since coming to Columbus in an early-season trade with St. Louis, suffered what appeared to be a serious left ankle injury during the third period of Saturday's 3-2 shootout loss in Detroit.

The Blue Jackets did not offer an update immediately after the game, but it does not appear to be a short-term injury.

Nikitin was retrieving a puck and skating hard toward the end boards when Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg put his left hand in the small of Nikitin's back and appeared to give him a slight shove.

As Nikitin lost his balance and slammed into the boards, all of his weight was absorbed by his left leg, and his ankle twisted gruesomely. He was helped to the bench by two teammates and went straight to the dressing room.

Zetterberg was given a five-minute boarding penalty and a 10-minute game misconduct.

In his last 11 starts, Predators G Pekka Rinne has allowed a total of 19 goals. Because of this, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Predators have won 10 of 12 games after their 5-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday.

The Predators seem forever stuck in sixth place in the Western Conference, but they find themselves edging closer and closer to the top. With the win, Nashville is four points from the Blackhawks and the St. Louis Blues. They are also five points from Detroit, which holds top spot in the Western Conference.

On Saturday, the Predators ran into a tired Blackhawks team. Chicago played the night before at 8 p.m. and had several travel delays leaving Chicago to get to Nashville. Still, the Blackhawks featured several dangerous players, but Nashville did what good teams do. They took advantage of another team's weakness and won.

This is an important stretch for Nashville. The Predators have a back-to-back before the All-Star break. They play the Blackhawks again in that stretch, and could close the gap between the two teams even further. Nashville can't catch Detroit before the break, but catching the Hawks would be a nice accomplishment heading into the season's home stretch.

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Many Blues fans believe that the NHL snubbed forward David Backes by not sending him an invitation to this month's All-Star game.

Backes' four-point performance Saturday in a 4-2 victory over Buffalo, when he had a hand in each of the Blues' goals, will only amplify those sentiments.

Backes left the game momentarily in the first period after crashing hard into the boards, but he returned and posted two goals and two assists.

"We had a lot of good players today, led by our captain," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "David (Backes) came back just like a bear and really went to work there. He was a major reason we won the hockey game today."

Backes' Blues teammates selected him as the "Weenie of the Game." In the past, the club's MVP of the game was presented with the "Hard Hat." But recently, the players brought a hat that on the top has a massive hot dog on a bun. He said that other players were supposed to wear it recently during post-game interviews, but all were too bashful.

Not Backes.

"I'm the Weenie of the Game," Backes said. "Other guys are supposed to be doing their interviews in it when they win it. The heart and soul guys, instead of wearing hard hats, they wanted weenie of the game, so this is what we go with.

"We've been doing it for maybe six, seven, eight games here ... apparently the weenie of the game for them stops at the buzzer. But I'm going to relish this for the rest of the night."

Backes matched his career-high with four points and will head into Monday's game at Detroit with a club-high 16 goals and 37 points.

Embattled forward Jiri Hudler is back to playing the kind of hockey the Red Wings expect of him following a poor season that put his future with the club in doubt.

Hudler picked up an assist in Saturday's 3-2 shootout win over Columbus. He has 18 points (11 goals, seven assists) in his past 23 games heading into Monday's contest with St. Louis at Joe Louis Arena. He has seized an opportunity to play on a top-two line with Henrik Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula.

"He got a chance to play more and he's playing with confidence," Zetterberg said. "He's always been good offensively, but he's really good in his own end now. Coach can really trust him and have him out there in tough situations.

The Wings have won six in a row, the past three in shootouts, each by a 3-2 score. Detroit extended its club-record home winning streak to 16 games and moved into first place in the NHL's overall standings with 65 points.

Hudler has 13 goals, which ties him with Pavel Datsyuk for third on the team, behind Johan Franzen (18) and Filppula (15), and 30 points. He's already surpassed last season's goal total (10) and is well on his way to topping his 2010-11 points output (37).

Hudler had just 12 points (two goals, 10 assists) in his first 24 games and went 20 consecutive games without a goal. Now, he's back to doing the things that enabled him to record career-high totals in goals (23) and points (57) in 2008-09 -- going to the net and not shying away from contact, setting up teammates and burying his chances.

"I think he's playing a lot better with the puck, he's skating better," Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom said. "He's a good little player, a good passer. He's a smart player. They put him with Hank and Fil, two very skilled players, and they work real well together."

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The Islanders can't expect to ever move up in the Eastern Conference standings if they can't beat the teams residing with them in or around the basement.

One such opportunity came Saturday, and the Isles made the most of it, using two goals from white-hot John Tavares for a 2-1 overtime win over Carolina at Nassau Coliseum.

"Every game we play right now is huge," Tavares said. "We still believe in here and we're really coming together."

Tavares, who will make his first career All-Star appearance next week, has eight goals and 21 points during a career-high 12-game scoring streak to move into the top 10 in the NHL scoring race.

"The way he's skating, protecting the puck, his vision and his creativity -- it's the best I've seen from him so far," coach Jack Capuano said.

The Isles (19-21-6) have won four of their last five games to move within eight points of No. 8 Washington in the East through Saturday's action. They face the Maple Leafs in a home-and-home series on consecutive nights beginning Monday in Toronto.

"We have a lot of hockey here before the All-Star break and we have to focus on it one shift at a time and one period at a time," Capuano said. "We have to make sure that when we step onto the ice, we step onto the ice with a purpose and we execute our structure."

The National Hockey League handed the Maple Leafs a gift of a schedule for this month, but Toronto players seem bent on returning it.

With Saturday's 3-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, the Leafs have 10 of a possible 16 points from nine home games in the first 10 matches of 2012.

"Extremely frustrating," defenseman Cody Franson said. "We really have to start making sure we do a better job."

The Leafs have one more home contest on Monday against the New York Islanders, then begin eight of the next 11 on the road, broken up by the All-Star break. They needed the security of more home points, but the Canadiens denied them what would have been a 3-0 margin in the season's series for the first time since 2000-01.

Toronto scored the first goal, a breakaway beauty from winger Matthew Lombardi, but a strange set of goals, off the backboard and back in front, a quick shot off a turnover and possible goaltender interference, put Montreal in command. Canadiens goalie Carey Price stopped 31 shots, but Jonas Gustavsson made enough saves to turn the game for Toronto.

Coach Ron Wilson undid many of the line combinations that had worked so well in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Minnesota Wild.

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They are enough to drive coaches crazy and players back to the minors. The Winnipeg Jets had more than their fair share in their 4-3 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers on Saturday night.

Winnipeg has enough trouble scoring goals as it is, so giving the opposition three glorious chances, like the Jets did on Saturday night, had head coach Claude Noel almost at a loss for words.

"That was really disappointing," Noel said. "We had clear possession of the puck three times in our D zone with really not a lot of pressure, and we served up three pizzas that ended up in our net."

Blake Wheeler, Ron Hainsey and Toby Enstrom were the guilty parties for the Jets, and they are all veteran players who should know better than to make the dangerous pass when going up or around the boards will do.

If there was a positive on Saturday night, it was the Jets battling back from a 2-0 deficit after the first period, tying it up five minutes into the third, and then scoring again with 6:15 to go to send the game to extra time.

So there were both positives and negatives for the Jets, who played their final home game before the All-Star break. They showed some resiliency, but it was resiliency they wouldn't have needed if it hadn't been for three terrible giveaways.

The Jets (22-20-6) fell four points back of the first-place Panthers in the Southeast Division, and they are just two points out of the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference. The Washington Capitals, however, have two games in hand on Winnipeg.

The Jets will play their final two games on the road against Eastern Conference opponents. They will battle the Carolina Hurricanes, who are last in the Eastern Conference, on Monday night and then travel to Madison Square Garden to take on the New York Rangers, who are first in the conference.

Win or lose, the Jets will still be very much in the playoff picture after the All-Star break.

The trade winds are bound to swirl around the Hurricanes, and now with a move of a player who had been in the lineup throughout the season, speculation is bound to increase.

The Hurricanes could be in a mode of shipping players elsewhere, as they're one of the teams near the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.

A late-night deal sending left wing Alexei Ponikarovsky to the New Jersey Devils was a sign that changes could be in the works. Less than 24 hours after that move, the Hurricanes lost 2-1 in overtime to the New York Islanders on Saturday night.

Ponikarovsky had seven goals and eight assists during his only season with the Hurricanes. He had played in every game this season, including more than 12 minutes on the night of his departure.

While Ponikarovsky hadn't been around long enough to be considered a core member of the team, his dependability with the Hurricanes was noteworthy and it's unlikely that he'll be the only player sent away in a trade within the next several weeks. From the Devils, the Hurricanes received minor league defenseman Joe Sova and a draft pick.

The Hurricanes play their first home game of the season without Ponikarovsky on Monday night against Winnipeg.

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2012-01-20T06:04:00.000-08:00

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The Wolves collected their second straight win for the second time this season. As usual, Kevin Love was a big part of it, with 20 points and 17 rebounds, his 14th double-double in 14 games this season.

Which is why, despite the come-from-behind victory on the Target Center court, the biggest question surrounding the team is Love's future.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, with six days before the league deadline, the Timberwolves are ready to give Love a maximum-salary contract, according to a league source. That much is pretty much a given.

The question is, will it be a four-year contract approaching $61 million or a maximum five-year "designated player" deal surpassing $78 million?

The NBA's new labor agreement allows every team one designated player -- a player ending his rookie contract who receives a five-year maximum-salary contract extension -- on their roster.

It would be nice if the Wolves could save that designation for another player, like Ricky Rubio, three years down the line. But negotiations with Love's agent, Jeff Schwartz, might depend on what deals Oklahoma City reaches with Russell Westbrook and New Orleans reaches with Eric Gordon.

All three players, from the same draft, are eligible for contract extensions. Each team can sign its player to a five-year extension -- one year longer than any other team could offer next summer -- by Jan. 25.

The Wolves also could extend Michael Beasley and Anthony Randolph -- two more players drafted in 2008 -- but likely will not re-sign either now and instead allow both players to become restricted free agents next summer.

Love also would become a restricted free agent then if he doesn't sign now, but even that four-year contract the Wolves can offer will be more money than other teams can offer.

His other option: He could accept a $6.1 million qualifying offer next summer for 2012-13 and become an unrestricted free agent in 2013.

Minnesota next plays on Friday at the Clippers.

The plan was never to lean on Chauncey Billups the way Vinny Del Negro and the Clippers have had.

The plan was to limit his minutes and let Billups pick his spots, but with injuries to three point guards on the roster, Billups was forced to carry the Clippers.

In two games without Chris Paul and Mo Williams, Billups hit on just 29 percent of his shots. Wednesday against Dallas, the Clippers got Williams back, and with a little more help, Billups was able to shine. The Clippers' veteran guard got off to a four-for-five start before cooling off, but it wasn't the start or the middle that mattered. It was the end.

With the clock winding down under three seconds, Billups hit a game-winning three-point shot to help the Clippers improve to 7-1 at Staples Center this season after a 91-89 win over the Dallas Mavericks.

"You better guard him, because he's going to shoot it. He's going to make big shots," Del Negro said. "He'll get into a rhythm; I'm not worried about his shots. I want him to shoot the ball when he's open and make big plays. We need him to score, and it's hard to score when you don't shoot."

Billups finished with 21 points in just under 32 minutes, with the game-changing three coming with just one second left on the clock.

"It feels great, especially after not particularly playing that well," he said. "...It feels good to make up for that a little bit."

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WATCH INDIANA PACERS VS GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T06:02:00.000-08:00

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The Pacers are dealing with health issues in the frontcourt again.

Veteran center Jeff Foster is out for at least the next two weeks because of issues with his back. He's not on the team's current three-game West Coast road trip, which started with a 92-88 loss at Sacramento on Wednesday.

Forward Jeff Pendergraph is also out after suffering a mild concussion in practice earlier this week.

"He's having a procedure done to his back," coach Frank Vogel said about Foster.

Foster has been dealing with back problems all season. The key for the Pacers is to have Foster ready for the playoffs.

"Jeff is a guy that we really need in the lineup," guard Darren Collison said. "He gives us extra possessions in terms of offensive rebounding, that toughness and that veteran leadership."

Lou Amundson will backup Roy Hibbert at center in Foster's absence.

Pendergraph suffered a concussion while trying to take a charge in practice. He passed his concussion test on Tuesday, but he was told he should still remain out the lineup.

"I don't get dizzy and I'm not sensitive to light or anything like that, I just don't feel normal," he said.

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WATCH SACRAMENTO KINGS VS SAN ANTONIO SPURS LIVE STREAM NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T05:59:00.000-08:00

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Kings coach Keith Smart said his morale is always up, and so, too, will his team, never mind a 1-6 showing in the team's last stretch and a 2-5 effort under Smart since he took over for the fired Paul Westphal heading into Wednesday's fourth-quarter rally to upend the visiting Indiana Pacers 92-88 at Power Balance Pavilion despite shooting 30 percent. The Kings last won a game shooting 30 percent in 1957.

"I never come to practice down," Smart said following Tuesday's lengthy session. "I'm the leader of this team. If I come in moping and dragging, they're dragging as well. I come in upbeat and get them on the floor to work. I have to set the tone. I can't wait for a player or another coach to set it, so the morale will always be high."

High even though the Kings rate so low in so many categories, including shooting (last in the NBA at 39 percent), assists (14.6) and three-point shooting (25.8 percent).

"We have to eliminate a lot of the stuff that is going on and we're going to work our way through this," he said. "There's not a lot of time to practice, so we've got to maximize it. Our focus is getting better every day. If we do, we can turn the corner and be a good team.

"Right now, we're not a good team because we're still growing. We've got the pieces, but the pieces don't know how to work together as a group."

Kings guard John Salmons said he isn't "frustrated" but his team is tired of losing, too. He added, "Old habits have to die."

Forward J.J. Hickson said the team is listening to Smart, but can they absorb the message?

"We're working on everything," he said. "As long as we get better and learn to play with each other, we'll be OK. We know we're also beating ourselves. There's no reason we can't get back on defense and push the ball since we are so young. But being young means a lot of mistakes, too."

The Spurs are two games into a stretch where 16 of 21 will be played on the road. So far, San Antonio is 1-1 after Wednesday night's 85-83 overtime win at Orlando.

It was the first road win for the Spurs in six tries.

The Magic game completed one of six back-to-backs during this span. Tim Duncan played in the first one. It's not likely he completes the other five.

"That stretch we have, with all the away games, something's got to give in there," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "He can't play every one of those games. There's just no way."

Duncan, 35, hasn't taken a day off yet. He is, however, averaging 26 minutes per night, which would be a career low. Duncan feels healthy enough to go out there every game.

The decision, of course, on his rest will rest with Popovich.

"If you don't sit, there's so many games so quickly, the minutes can pile up on you," Popovich said. "The only way to really catch up is probably sitting now and then."

San Antonio (10-5) is back home Saturday to face Sacramento.

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WATCH LOS ANGELES LAKERS VS ORLANDO MAGIC LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T05:57:00.000-08:00

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The Lakers are backing up the classic notion that teams are much better at home and much worse on the road.

After their 98-87 loss Thursday night in Miami, the Lakers dropped to 1-5 on the road. They are 9-1 at home.

"We are not bringing it on the road," Lakers center Andrew Bynum said after the game. "At times we played decent on offense and terrible on defense. At times we played decent on defense and terrible on offense."

Bynum and the Lakers get a chance to change the familiar script Friday night in Orlando, where Bynum will go head-to-head against Magic center Dwight Howard. Bynum and Howard have been the subject of rampant trade speculation for months, though nothing seems to be going on right now.

"The good thing about the NBA is that we get another chance to go out and play (Friday)," Lakers forward Josh McRoberts said. "We need to win on the road. It's frustrating."

Lakers forward Pau Gasol said the schedule has dictated the results to some extent. The Lakers have had some easier opponents at home and tougher ones on the road. Their one road loss to an also-ran team was Sacramento, which was fired up for its season opener with the Lakers coming in after playing at home the previous night.

Magic fans will be taking a really close at Friday's matchup with the Los Angeles Lakers -- and for once it won't be to see superstar Kobe Bryant.

It's center Andrew Bynum they want to judge.

The franchise-shaking trade request last month by Magic center Dwight Howard has been focusing on the Lakers and Bynum, who might be the best and most promising big man they can get in return.

Howard has listed the Lakers, Nets or Mavs as his teams of choice, where he would be willing to re-sign as a free agent this summer. Bynum comes to town Friday riding the best start of his NBA career, averaging 16.5 points, 13.9 rebounds and 1.9 blocked shots.

Howard, conversely, is averaging 19.9 points, 15 rebounds and 2.3 blocked shots. Although Howard is viewed as the league's best center, and he has been for the past few seasons, Bynum has been closing ground.

Former NBA center, and current analyst for TNT, Shaquille O'Neal, who played for both the Magic and Lakers, has been fueling the debate by proclaiming Bynum to be today's best center.

"He (Bynum) is the best big man in the game right now," O'Neal told the LA Times. "He's the only big man in the league who is playing like a true big man." O'Neal had a similar pronouncement on a recent TNT broadcast.

On Friday the issue should become much clearer. And if Bynum outplays Howard, the trade might become a little more palatable for Magic fans.

The Magic are coming off an 85-83 overtime loss Wednesday to the San Antonio Spurs. It was the Magic's third game in three days. The Spurs had played the night before in Miami. Both teams struggled to score and looked tired.

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2012-01-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

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There was a wide-range of opinion among the Bucks' braintrust as to whom the team should select with the 10th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft.

The Bucks coveted a point guard and were hoping to land Jonny Flynn. But they expected Flynn would be off the draft board when they picked and they were correct; Flynn was taken by the Timberwolves with the sixth overall pick.

That left the Bucks to choose between Brandon Jennings, Ty Lawson and Jrue Holiday. The Bucks, of course, took Jennings. Holiday went to the 76ers at 17 and Lawson went to the Nuggets at 18.

While the Bucks obviously felt Jennings was the best prospect of the bunch, they nevertheless felt Lawson and Holiday would eventually turn out to be quality players as well. And they have.

Jennings, Lawson and Holiday are all starting for their respective teams and playing at a high level.

Jennings is the Bucks' leading scorer at 17.6 points and is also averaging a team-high five assists.

Lawson, who helped the Nuggets beat the Bucks 105-95 Tuesday night at the Bradley Center, is also enjoying a fine season, averaging 16.8 points and 6.5 assists.

And Holiday is averaging 15 points and 4.4 assists and showed the Bucks what they could have had with a spectacular 24-point, five-assist, five-steal performance against Milwaukee on Monday in Philadelphia.

It's safe to say the Bucks, who play the Knicks on Friday night in New York, wouldn't have gone wrong picking any of the aforementioned point guards.

It was like a family reunion at Madison Square Garden, and Mike D'Antoni and Amar'e Stoudemire are holding out hope that the Prodigal Sun will return to New York in the summer.

As D'Antoni grits his teeth watching rookie guard Iman Shumpert and third-year guard Toney Douglas soil his dynamic offense with poor decisions and little to no feel, Steve Nash came in with a vastly undermanned Phoenix Suns team and pulled out a 91-88 win. It sent the Knicks to a fourth straight loss and yet another night in which the offense sputtered. The Knicks shot 37 percent from the field, made just 4-of-15 from three-point range and just looked nothing like an offense coached by Mike D'Antoni normally would.

Afterward, they talked about the lack of flow. And Shumpert once again admitted he is blowing it for the team and not properly setting up the scoring stars, Stoudemire (7-for-22) and Anthony (5-for-22).

And D'Antoni looked wistfully at Nash (26 points, 11 assists), who still runs his offense to near perfection all these years later. Will proud coach and favored pupil be reunited next season? Nash, who turns 38 on Feb. 7, will be a free agent this summer and the Knicks do have the full mid-level exception ($5 million) to offer.

"It's no secret," Nash said after the game about interest in New York. "This is the basketball capital of the world. I live here in the summer. I have a lot of friends here. My former coach and teammate play here so it's a homecoming in some ways for me. It's always fun to play here."

The Suns have already told Nash, the former two-time MVP, that they want him to re-sign to they can ensure he will retire with the franchise. But if the Suns are going into a rebuilding mode, Nash won't want to endure that.

The Knicks right now are desperate to find a point guard solution and Nash would top the list -- as long as D'Antoni, in the final year of his contract, returns. But there will be other candidates, such as Jason Kidd, Kirk Hinrich, Andre Miller, Raymond Felton and perhaps even Chauncey Billups.

Of course there still is Baron Davis, who has yet to play a game this season. If he comes in and gets the offense untracked, that could earn him some serious security going forward.

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2012-01-20T05:52:00.000-08:00

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There's a real concern about starting point guard Mike Conley playing too many minutes, which is why the Grizzlies hope first-round draft choice Josh Selby continues to develop as he has of late.

Fellow rookie Jeremy Pargo, who has been out of college for a couple of seasons and playing in Europe, had been the backup point guard. But because Pargo wasn't getting the Grizzlies' into their offense quick enough and because his on-ball defense was suspect, coach Lionel Hollins turned to Selby, who's getting used to coming off the bench.

"I just watch and see how the game is flowing and keep it at the same intensity when I get in," said Selby, who had four points in Wednesday night's 93-87 victory at New Orleans before the team headed to Detroit for a Friday night date with the Pistons. "The biggest adjustment has been sitting on the bench for three or four games before getting a chance to play. That's never happened to me before. I have to get used it."

Conley said Selby has done "a good job of controlling the tempo," and Selby said Conley's role as a tutor has been helpful.

"Mike is teaching me how to be a pure point guard, he's teaching me how to pick my spots, how to run a team," said Selby, who would be just a college sophomore this season had he remained at Kansas.

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WATCH CHICAGO BULLS VS CLEVELAND CAVALIERS LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T05:50:00.000-08:00

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There has been some grumbling around Chicago regarding Carlos Boozer's inconsistent play since he joined the team as a free agent. But when he poured in 31 points during a 118-97 victory over Phoenix on Tuesday, Boozer was in no mood to focus on personal success.

"I don't really worry about that," Boozer said. "I worry about how we play as a team and how we win. I'm not worried about my shot. My shot will be there. My main focus is how we do as a group of guys. As long as we get wins, we're happy."

Boozer knocked down 14-of-21 shots and had 26 points by halftime. He missed a few easy ones in the third, then sat out the entire fourth quarter as the Bulls had a comfortable lead.

After a rough game in Memphis on Monday afternoon, the Bulls made an encouraging statement by blowing out the Suns while guard Derrick Rose sat out with a nagging left toe injury. They improved to 13-3 overall and 6-0 at home.

Guard C.J. Watson, playing just his second game since returning from a sprained left elbow, added 23 points and hit 8-of-12 shots from the field. Watson started at point guard for the first time this season.

"Even though I was hurt, I tried to do a lot of dribbling drills, shooting drills, so I wouldn't be lacking too much," Watson said. "Probably won't be 100 percent for about a month or so."

Now the Bulls may not know what to do with themselves, facing consecutive days off for the first time in three weeks. The Phoenix win capped off a stretch of 11 games in 15 days. The Bulls went 9-2 during that span.

They'll also get their first actual practice since Jan. 2, before heading out of town to face Cleveland on Friday.

It's not easy to win road games in the NBA.

With their win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Monday, the Cavaliers are now 4-5 on the road this season. In last season's 19-win debacle, the Cavs won just seven games away from Quicken Loans Arena.

One can see just how much improvement they've made already.

They returned home on Tuesday and dropped a 105-95 decision to the Golden State Warriors. If the season ended today, they would have been the No. 7 seed in the playoffs.

The plan this season was not to make the playoffs. It was to get playing time and experience for their young core of players.

Perhaps, they are progressing more rapidly than expected. This team plays very hard and has the ability to defend. Those are two good traits to have.

Rookie point guard Kyrie Irving is pretty darn good already, 13 games into his NBA career. He had 18 points, a career-high eight rebounds and five assists against the Warriors.

He had a streak of five consecutive games with 20 or more points snapped on Tuesday.

Very few thought he'd be leading the team in scoring at 17.7 per game.

His numbers are good all across the board. He's averaging 5.3 assists and 3.3 turnovers.

"He has All-Star potential written all over him," Cavs coach Byron Scott said. "It's just a matter of how bad he wants it."

The 19-year-old has a rare skill of being able to hang in the air and finish around the basket. He's still hanging there while gravity kicks in and defenders have already landed. That's one reason he draws so many fouls.

It's a good thing when he goes to the foul line, too, because he'll be a 90-percent shooter at the line when it's all said and done.

"I thought we were getting the best player in the draft," Scott said. "He hasn't disappointed us at all."

Irving is playing with extreme confidence. Some think he can actually get better. He said he longs to be an All-Star.

"I want it pretty bad," he said. "I've dreamt about this. Now I'm finally here and I have the tools, the facility to do it and the coaching staff. I feel like the sky's the limit."

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WATCH PHOENIX SUNS VS BOSTON CELTICS LIVE STREAM NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T05:47:00.000-08:00

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Games between the Knicks and the Suns used to be as wide-open as it gets in the NBA. The last time the two teams met, they combined for 250 points. The Suns averaged more than 114 points in their last 11 games against the Knicks, with former Phoenix coach Mike D'Antoni on one bench or the other for all of them.

But those days are gone, at least for now. The Suns came into New York losers of five straight and the Knicks have now lost four straight after a 91-88 slugfest that had both sides and the crowd at Madison Square Garden longing for the good ol' days.

"I don't think they're putting it in a can and sending it to Springfield," Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry said, referring to the home of the basketball Hall of Fame. "It was not a very well-played game. We're still not shooting the ball like we're capable of shooting, and I still can't figure that one out. It's kind of something that's going around in the league; I don't think anybody is shooting lights out. That's still something we'll continue to work on."

One thing that doesn't need work is Steve Nash. In front of his old coach and fans drooling over the prospect of the free-agent-to-be dishing to Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony next year, Nash rang up 26 points, 11 assists and closed out the game with two clutch free throws in the final seconds.

Nash will turn 38 next month. You could have fooled the Knicks or many opponents so far this season. He just doesn't have a lot of help in Phoenix right now.

"You watch Steve play, I don't see where he's missed the beat," Gentry said. "I think he's playing as well as he did when he was (back-to-back) MVP of the league. He's the guy that we count on to do almost everything for us offensively. He gets the ball to the guys in the right spot, and when we need him he always comes up with the big shots for us."

That hasn't been enough often this year, but the 5-9 Suns needed a win and Nash delivered. Now it's on to Boston to face another struggling team in the Celtics before this long, brutal road trip finally ends in Dallas against the defending champs.

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WATCH PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS VS TORONTO RAPTORS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 20, 2012

2012-01-20T05:45:00.000-08:00

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The Trail Blazers have been a different team at home (6-1) than on the road (2-5), where they lost another one 92-89 Wednesday night to the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena.

After Portland's fourth loss in five games, the players held a players-only meeting.

"We realize we all just need to look ourselves in the mirror," guard Raymond Felton said. "Before we play Toronto (on Friday), we need to bring this together. Let's get back to the way we were playing... the first five or six games."

"People keep saying we're good, we're going to be OK," forward LaMarcus Aldridge said. "If we keep thinking that, we won't ever figure it out. We have to figure this out before things get bad."

One thing that has been consistent in recent games is poor starts. Portland (8-6) made 2 of its first 14 shots, got behind early and never really recovered against the Hawks.

"It seems like we're playing harder when we get down instead of playing that way from the beginning of the game," guard Jamal Crawford said. "That makes it tougher on us to come back and pull out games."

Coach Nate McMillan said he wants more effort from his players.

"We need to play harder," he said.

Now, to fix the other big problem with the Raptors: Scoring.

Coach Dwane Casey says he's pleased with the team's defensive improvement and now wants to tackle the team's offensive failings, especially in the absence of top scorer Andrea Bargnani.

As expected, that attention centers on the struggling DeMar DeRozan and what the Raptors can do to get more consistency out of the third-year swingman.

And the lesson Casey preached was that DeRozan has to realize that nothing comes easy on the offensive end. There is no doubt he's eventually going to get the ball in his hands on most possessions but it's what he does before that Casey wants to see change.

It's not easy, but the kid's got to do it.

"It's work,"?Casey said. "You have to play on the offensive end with force as well as on the defensive end.

"Do it with force, you have to get down, get low, be strong, be aggressive and not let the guy get into your body, maintain leverage. There's a lot of different things that come into play that he's learning to do and, at the end, be ready to take a shot and make it."

DeRozan may need some more work on it; he went just 4-for-16 from the field in Wednesday's loss to Boston after the coach's tutorial. He gets his next chance Friday at the Air Canada Centre when the Trail Blazers visit.

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Nuggets guard Andre Miller gave his former team a taste of what they used to have. Miller, who played for the 76ers from December 2006 through the 2008-09 season, scored a season-high 28 points in a 108-104 overtime win Wednesday at Philadelphia.

So hot was Miller that he scored Denver's final 10 points in regulation before the teams entered overtime tied 96-96.

Miller likes playing against former teams, and he's done it often. In addition to two stints with the Nuggets and being with Philadelphia, Miller also has played with Cleveland, the Los Angeles Clippers and Portland.

Miller also had 10 assists Wednesday while shooting 12-of-20 from the field, including a most uncommon 3-of-4 from 3-point range. Miller entered the game shooting 20.4 percent on 3-pointers in his career.

Miller entered the night in a scoring slump. He had averaged just 6.7 points in his previous six games to see his season average fall to 9.3.

Miller will try to keep his hot shooting alive when the Nuggets play at Washington on Friday.

The Wizards faced both their polar opposite in the Oklahoma City Thunder and the team they aspire to be. The Thunder have the league's best record; the Wizards the worst.

But in a stunning upset, it was the Wizards who came away with the victory, 105-102, at the Verizon Center. The Thunder appeared sluggish and didn't seem to have their A-game, possibly believing they wouldn't need it against the woeful Wizards, while the Wizards were energized from the opening tip.

Perhaps they were tired of hearing the frustrated Verizon Center crowd, which began booing them in the first quarter when the game was still close. The Thunder never led by more than 12 and shot only 4-of-19 from the 3-point line to the Wizards' 8-of-21. That made a big difference, since the Thunder still managed to outshoot the Wizards 48.1 percent to 38.4.

"We need unity. We need to pick each other up," said Wizards guard Nick Young, who had two points in the first half but scored 22 in the second.

Both teams are also two of the league's youngest. The average age of the Thunder is 24.9; the Wizards 25.5. But while the Thunder display a disciplined maturity along with their youth, the Wizards are the quintessential kids who refuse to grow up. But for at least one night, the Wizards understood what it took to win.

"We know that if we play hard and we play together as a team that good things can happen. We have to be willing to sacrifice ourselves. We were physical and refused to be intimidated," said Wizards coach Flip Saunders.

The Wizards next game is against the Denver Nuggets at home on Friday.

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2012-01-20T05:40:00.000-08:00

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Rarely does a devastating injury to an All-Star player bring a group together this way.

All-Star center Al Horford goes down with season-ending surgery to repair a torn pectoral muscle and his team rallies in his absence to win its first four games, the latest an impressive 92-89 home victory over the Portland Trail Blazers.

"We have some guys that are really gutting it out," said Hawks coach Larry Drew. "Joe (Johnson) is playing at a very high level, I think Josh (Smith) is playing at a high level. He's taking defensive challenges like I hadn't seen before. He's guarding big guys, he's guarding small guys, we're switching him against smaller guys. We have guys that are really stepping their games up."

That includes every single player that has suited up since Horford went down. The Hawks might not have realized just how deep a group they have if Horford hadn't been injured. But he was and they did. And Drew has discovered a toughness in this group that might have otherwise gone untouched all season.

"I think when Al went out, it just brought us tighter," Jeff Teague said. "Guys just want to win, and we're going out there and getting it done."

That doesn't mean it's always going to look good. The Hawks traded runs with the Trail Blazers in the second half, with each team mounting a comeback the other had to top to stay in the game.

But in the end, these scrappy Hawks continue to find a way to win.

"That's all we're trying to do," Smith said. "Just keep winning as long as we can."

Atlanta will try to keep the good times rolling on Friday at Philadelphia.

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2012-01-19T04:23:00.000-08:00

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The injury bug has hit teams hard across the league and the Dallas Mavericks are no different as this compressed schedule takes its toll following abbreviated training camps.

Point guard Jason Kidd has already missed four games with back spasms and now Vince Carter could miss that many and maybe more. He sat out his first game of the season with a sprained foot Wednesday night during the Mavs' 91-89 loss at the Los Angeles Clippers.

Carter sustained the injury on the final play of Monday's loss to the Los Angeles Lakers as he made a move to the right to get off a potential game-tying three-pointer. He got it off, but the shot missed and then teammates had to help Carter to the locker room.

"It's a loss, a significant loss for us right now," said Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, who noted that Carter's absence could open more minutes for Lamar Odom at small forward and for Rodrigue Beaubois at shooting guard. Dallas continues its four-game road trip Thursday night at surging Utah.

Carter is a significant loss because he had emerged as a valuable member of Dallas' deep and high-scoring bench. He is second in scoring behind Jason Terry, averaging 9.5 points.

He also provided elements that the Mavs just haven't had. He could create his own shot with one-on-one penetrations and he was also the team's most accurate three-point shooter.

It was hard to tell which team has the nickname "Lob City" when the Clippers and Jazz met up Tuesday night.

The Jazz were the high-flying team in this blowout, soaring to a 108-79 victory over Blake Griffin & Co. (but minus Chris Paul) at EnergySolutions Arena.

Utah didn't just dominate on the scoreboard, either. Jazz players had eight dunks on the night and outscored the Clippers 27-8 on the fast break.

That seldom-used Jazz reserve Jeremy Evans had three alley-oop dunks compared to only two slams overall for Griffin about sums up this lopsided game.

"It's fun when everybody is out there playing hard, playing together, guys passing the ball," Jazz small forward C.J. Miles said. "Usually when we move the ball like that in our sets we get good shots and we get dunks and lay-ups. We have guys capable of finishing plays like that."

Heck, even Jamaal Tinsley, who's usually on the bench watching games with Evans, got into the Jazz's high-flying act. He had a nifty behind-the-back move for a lay-up and also tossed a midcourt lob that Evans caught and jammed in from way up high.

With the Clippers in town, lobs and leaping were the pregame chatter, too.

Evans, whose athleticism and hops are overlooked in the NBA but adored by Jazz fans, even admitted that he jumped over the front end of his Camaro after watching Griffin win the NBA Dunk Contest by clearing a KIA.

The reserved Evans even said he believes he can out-jump Griffin.

"If you measured the verticals, I think I've got him," he said. "But he is a high-flier."

So is Evans -- and his 9-4 team, which has won eight of nine and three straight to vault up to the No. 2 spot in the Western Conference.

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Lamar Odom came back Monday night, and it felt weird, predictably.

Odom called it "surreal" to be back in Los Angeles, started hot and faded fast in the Dallas Mavericks' 73-70 loss to the Lakers at Staples Center. Odom had seven first-quarter points but then did little else as the game tilted the Lakers' way late.

Odom was so unnerved about the Lakers offering him in trade to New Orleans that he told them he wanted to be traded away because of the emotional disappointment. The Lakers agreed and sent him to Dallas, one of the better destinations in the NBA, but Odom still wound up sad about it.

Odom told ESPNDallas.com that former Lakers coach Phil Jackson left him a message to encourage him to stay in the moment.

"He told me just to be strong and get myself together and get myself in that place mentally where I can use basketball as my sanctuary," Odom said. "He said, 'Relearn to do that through meditation and other forms to get to a place where you kind of leave everything else behind and focus on the now, the moment.' And that's what I have to work on in order to put myself in a place where I can go out here and actually play the game like I used to play it."

Odom has struggled badly with the Mavericks, trying to learn Rick Carlisle's complicated system. He hasn't done well transitioning from power forward to mostly small forward.

Odom's wife, reality TV personality Khloe Kardashian Odom, said it is taking time for her husband to transition.

"He loved being with the Lakers, and he was there for seven years," she said. "And he said it's like going to a new school (now); it's like getting to know your classmates again and a new teacher. That's kind of the analogy. So it will take time, but I don't think too long."

The Lakers move from one big game to another Thursday night in Miami against LeBron James, whom Lakers coach Mike Brown worked with for years.

Dwyane Wade not only was out of the Heat's lineup for Tuesday's 120-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs at American Airlines Arena, but the Heat remain tip-lipped about when the team's star shooting guard will return.

Wade is not only dealing with the severely sprained right ankle sustained in last Friday's loss in Denver, but also a strained calf sustained a game earlier against the Clippers, as well as the remnants of a bruised left foot that limited him earlier this season.

"Every day, I'll reevaluate and we'll go from there. There is no timetable on his injury right now," said coach Erik Spoelstra, whose team next plays the visiting Lakers on Thursday night.

"We're not going to get into specifics and try to lay down a timetable. There is no timetable of when he'll be back."

With so many injuries, it was thought that Wade would take an extended break. But Spoelstra refused to go there.

"I'm not trying to be coy," Spoelstra said. "We are going to reevaluate him every day. I don't have another answer for you and that's how we're taking it. We're going to be very judicious as we move forward, but we do not have a timetable to his return."

Teammates are looking at it as an extended break.

"It is tough not having Dwyane," power forward Chris Bosh said, "but the show goes on."

Spoelstra insisted there would not be a chance of approach amid Wade's absence.

"It doesn't change a whole lot," he said. "We still want to get to our game, to be aggressive defensively and to take the game to whoever we play."

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WATCH NEW ORLEANS HORNETS VS HOUSTON ROCKETS LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 19, 2012

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The Hornets no longer have their two familiar two All-Stars -- guard Chris Paul and forward David West.

Injuries have taken away two starters -- guard Eric Gordon, who's their top offensive threat, and forward Trevor Ariza, who's their top defender. But to coach Monty Williams, who's always stressing balance and teamwork on both ends of the floor, those absences aren't an adequate explanation for how New Orleans is playing.

The Hornets lost their sixth straight home game and for the 10th time in 11 games overall when they fell at home to the Portland Trail Blazers, 84-77, Monday afternoon.

"There's no one on our team who can say they haven't had a chance to prove themselves," Williams said. "Opportunities in this league don't come often.

"Some guys will look back at this time and kick themselves because they didn't play with the passion and energy they need to play with. This is a golden opportunity for a few guys, who might not ever get this chance again."

The Hornets, 3-10 after losing their last four games, will play host to Memphis on Wednesday.

The Rockets fell to 3-7 for a second-consecutive season, but considered this time to be very different than the last.

Last season, Aaron Brooks was out with a severe ankle sprain and Kyle Lowry was struggling while trying to come back from a preseason knee injury. Yao Ming had been playing limited minutes every other game and had gone down with an injury that would ultimately end his career, though the Rockets did not know it at the time.

This season, Patrick Patterson was coming back from an ankle injury while veteran Samuel Dalembert and rookie Chandler Parsons were getting up to speed after missing all or most of training camp. After a brutal early-season schedule, the Rockets were heading home.

Last season, the Rockets did not reach .500 until the 30th game. With their rout of the Pistons, they were back at .500 at 7-7, heading into an every other day schedule for the next week beginning with New Orleans. Of their seven remaining games this month, five are at home where the Rockets are 5-1.

"It was a big win for us to get back to .500," Rockets coach Kevin McHale said. "I told our guys that schedule we had to start off the year was brutal, the hardest in the league. I didn't know when we'd get back to .500. We got back to .500 pretty quickly."

That might be the biggest difference from last season. The hope, however, is that this time they will stay there.

"It's awesome," Lowry said. "It was a goal of ours. Now we just build off of it."

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2012-01-18T06:32:00.000-08:00

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The Mavericks have been a top-10 shooting team in 10 of the last 12 seasons and have never finished lower than 12th during that time. This season, they're putting that to the test.

Dallas had another abysmal shooting night Monday in a 73-70 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, a performance that threatened Dallas' all-time scoring low of 62 points. The Mavs shot just 35 percent, making 28 of 80 attempts.

They were horrendous from beyond the arc, where they have so often been so good. Jason Kidd missed all eight of his attempts, and the team made just 4-of-26.

Making matters worse, they watched their chance at a sixth consecutive victory end when Lakers guard Derek Fisher buried the Lakers' lone 3-pointer of the night for the winning margin with 3.1 seconds to go.

"We competed well in the game, but you have to make more plays on the road against a team like this," Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said. "We had a lot of opportunities we didn't cash in on."

Dallas entered the game ranked 17th in the league in shooting, and that was actually an increase from where it had been earlier. After Monday's awful showing, the Mavs' season shooting percentage dipped to 43.1.

They'll have to figure out a way to improve that when they return to Staples Center on Wednesday to face a dangerous Los Angeles Clippers team.

Clippers guard Courtney Fortson was getting ready to get on a plane after playing the Idaho Stampede in the NBA Development League when he found out he'd get a chance to play in the NBA. With injuries to Chris Paul and Mo Williams and Eric Bledsoe rehabbing his knee, the Clippers needed help.

Fortson knew about the injuries, but he wasn't excited to hear about the depth issues the Clippers, the team he went through training camp with.

"I wasn't looking at it like an opportunity. I was more worried about the injuries," Fortson said. "I was looking at the team because I got to know the guys during camp."

But it was an opportunity, and after debuting Monday in the Clippers' win against the Nets, Fortson played a team-high 22:45 off the bench in the Clippers' lopsided loss at Utah Tuesday.

In the Clippers' 108-79 loss, Fortson scored 13 points -- the first 13 of his career. Fortson also pulled down four rebounds and dished out two assists.

Fortson, who signed a non-guaranteed contract, probably won't stick with the Clippers once Paul, Williams and Bledsoe return, but the exposure he's getting could help him land somewhere else.

"This is a dream," Fortson said.

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2012-01-18T06:28:00.000-08:00

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For the first time he can remember, Jimmer Fredette is hesitant with the ball. Where to pass, where to cut, when to shoot.

The Kings are waiting for the rookie to resemble the scoring marvel he was at BYU last season as the consensus national Player of the Year. He has been asked to share the ball, be a facilitator, but he is also working with teammates not always willing to move without the ball. And the Kings have urged the rookie to shoot when open and not get caught in the air looking to shoot or pass.

In 14 games this season, Fredette is shooting 33 percent, averaging 7.8 points and two assists. He had six points on 3-of-7 shooting and one assist in 15 minutes off the bench Monday in a 99-86 loss at Minnesota that capped a 1-5 road trip.

"Looking for his shot a little bit more would be better for him, but I think he's trying to fit into a team," said Kings coach Keith Smart. "But I'm telling him all the time: 'Be you. Don't try to be this point guard and average 10 assists -- just be you and shoot when you have to shoot. The team understands that.' "

Still, Fredette said he's looking forward to more opportunities to shine.

"There have been games where I haven't been as great, and there have been games where I played pretty well," Fredette said. "I need to be more consistent, but the confidence is still there, and I believe I can play at this level and at a high level."

Fredette has been working a lot with Kings assistant coach Bobby Jackson on how at 6-foot-1 to get his shot off.

"It's tough for him because he's got a slow release," Jackson said. "But the thing about Fredette is he's got to have confidence. Shooting is confidence."

And once he figures that out?

"Sky's the limit," Jackson said.

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Ben Wallace has already announced this will be his last season, but his coaches still value his defense.

When Lawrence Frank decided to shake up his starting lineup this week, he turned to Wallace to give his desperate team a lift. It didn't help initially, as the Pistons lost to Houston Tuesday, 87-70, their eighth in the last nine games.

Wallace replaced Jonas Jerebko to set a defensive tone for the first unit while also giving the bench an offensive jolt through Jerebko's high-energy style.

"He's our best post defender," Frank said. "When you look at not just (Tuesday) but the schedule for the next couple of weeks, we have some high-scoring front line players we have to face. It's not going to be just a one-game thing."

Wallace will guard Minnesota's Kevin Love at the start Wednesday as the Pistons complete a short road swing. When they return to The Palace this weekend, he'll be matched up with Memphis' Marc Gasol on Friday and Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge on Saturday.

Jerebko managed just seven points and six rebounds against the Rockets but he's played well in the Pistons' three victories this season, averaging 16.7 points and 10.7 rebounds.

Detroit's bench has been outscored by an average of more than 10 points a game and it can use all the offense assistance it can get. Charlie Villanueva, expected to be the top frontcourt reserve, has been out most of the season with a mysterious ankle injury. Austin Daye's shooting percentage hovers around 20 percent and Jason Maxiell has an uncanny knack of squandering dunk opportunities.

"Bringing (Jerebko) off the bench, maybe he doesn't have early foul trouble, which has kind of plagued his production," Frank said. "This gives us some different balance between our offensive components both on the bench and starting."

Timberwolves forward Kevin Love on Monday was named one of 20 finalists for a U.S. Olympic team that will play in London next summer. Now he just needs to be one of the final 12 chosen to represent his country.

"My tryout is the work I'm putting in here with the Timberwolves," he said. "Hopefully I'll continue to play better and hopefully they'll see something in me that will allow them to choose me as one of the last 12, 13 players."

Players will report for training camp right after July 4 and will play their first Olympic game about three weeks later.

In that time, Love hopes to prove he belongs with Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose and others.

"I just need to keep playing my game," Love said. "I feel I can fit into any system in the world and I can have a lot of success. Hopefully they will be able to see that. I have a high level of confidence I will be able to make that team."

Love was a lock to make the 20 finalists after he played for the U.S. team that won gold at the 2010 World Championships in Turkey.

"Tremendous honor," Love said. "Anytime you get a chance to represent your country -- wear USA across your chest, red, white and blue, get out there and sing the national anthem, compete for a gold medal, all of that -- it's a big deal to me and allows me to be a little bit patriotic."

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WATCH MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES VS NEW ORLEANS HORNETS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

2012-01-18T06:22:00.000-08:00

WATCH MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES VS NEW ORLEANS HORNETS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

It was just after the Grizzlies' 102-86 victory over the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls on Monday afternoon that Memphis forward Marreese Speights, one of the newest Grizzlies, turned to veteran forward Rudy Gay and said, "Hey, we're pretty good, aren't we?' "

Gay's response: "I'm like, 'I don't know what you've been used to.' "

Gay said that even though the Grizzlies struggled at the start of the season, then had to adjust to losing Zach Randolph until March with a torn MCL ligament. Through it all, the team's winning attitude established last year in the playoffs has never wavered.

"When we get new people coming to our team now, they have to be able to help us," Gay said. "We're no longer the team that's known as a pushover. We're a playoff team. So when you get on this roster, you have to pick up your level."

Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins, with his team closing out a four-game homestand with a three-game winning streak that puts Memphis at 6-6 heading into Wednesday's game at New Orleans, is happy with his squad's growth.

"You can always feel good at 6-6," Hollins said. "The last two years we started 3-8 and 2-9 so it's a better feeling than in the past. I just keep trying to stress to the guys we are getting better. The reason we're getting better is we're working.

"We're coming in focusing on what we need to do, acclimating those outside guys into our team, because they are part of our team now, getting them to be on point with our schemes."

The Hornets no longer have their two familiar two All-Stars -- guard Chris Paul and forward David West.

The Hornets lost their sixth straight home game and for the 10th time in 11 games overall when they fell at home to the Portland Trail Blazers, 84-77, Monday afternoon.

"There's no one on our team who can say they haven't had a chance to prove themselves," Williams said. "Opportunities in this league don't come often.

The Hornets, 3-10 after losing their last four games, will play host to Memphis on Wednesday.

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WATCH PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS VS ATLANTA HAWKS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

2012-01-18T06:19:00.000-08:00

WATCH PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS VS ATLANTA HAWKS LIVE ONLINE STREAMING NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

LaMarcus Aldridge said he felt a little faint during the third quarter of Monday's 84-77 victory at New Orleans. Perhaps it was the Trail Blazers' play that made the power forward queasy.

Portland led 37-35 after a sluggish first half, and the Hornets had tied the score early in the third quarter when the Blazers went on a 17-2 run to break the game open and end a three-game losing streak.

Aldridge, a team captain, had delivered an impassive message to his teammates just before the second half began, then backed it up with 16 of his 22 points after intermission.

"I'd rather pass out on the court than lose four in a row," Aldridge said, adding with a laugh: "In the third quarter, I was really close to passing out, but I didn't.

"We can't lose four in a row. We dug deep tonight. I'm a leader. I had to dig deep. I found some energy, and guys fed off of it."

Aldridge said the Blazers need to keep the momentum going when they visit Atlanta Wednesday in the fourth stop on a six-game, 10-day road trip. They dropped the first two to San Antonio and Houston.

"If we can win the last three, 4-2 would be a good trip," said Aldridge, who was 2 for 8 from the field in the first half and 8 for 9 in the second half.

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2012-01-18T06:17:00.000-08:00

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The Suns are better defensively? Not this week.

The Bulls lost Monday night in Memphis, played without league MVP Derrick Rose for a second straight night and the Suns were waiting for them in the Windy City, anxious to get the taste of a four-game losing streak out of their mouths.

But the losing streak continues, and it wasn't even close. The Bulls shot 53 percent, made 47 field goals, got 31 points from Carlos Boozer and hung 119 points on the Suns -- about 20 over their season average. The Suns gave up 39 points in the first quarter and never got out of the hole they dug.

The Suns have been bad all season offensively, but the poor defense is piling on over the last week. The Bulls don't get to 100 points much, and 118 is really uncharted territory. To get there without Rose was all the more embarrassing.

"We gave up 118 points," Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry said. "We are not the Phoenix Suns of old. We need to slow down and guard them more closely.

"We just need to play closer to players like Boozer. We just can't go out and say on their jump shots, 'make them and beat us.' We need to defend better; we need to be more physical especially on our rebounding. We also need to communicate better on our defensive rotations."

With three more stops on a brutal road trip that continues Wednesday in New York against old coach Mike D'Antoni and the Knicks, the Suns' longest losing streak in almost two years might grow a lot longer.

Carmelo Anthony played with a sprained right ankle and a sprained left wrist and scored 33 points Monday in 39:14 despite telling reporters after the game that he couldn't really feel the ball with his left hand throughout the Knicks' 102-93 loss to the Orlando Magic.

Anthony, the Knicks' leading scorer, shot 9-for-27 and was 1-for-8 from downtown. But he kept putting up shots because it has become painfully clear that no one else can score right now.

"It seems like we can't shoot the ball in the ocean right now, everybody," Anthony said after the Knicks shot 41 percent, including just 5 of 20 from three-point range in the game, while the Magic drilled an incredible 17 of 35 from downtown and shot 50 percent in the game.

This season, the Knicks are shooting just 41.7 percent from the field, which is 26th in the NBA. In a system that emphasizes the three-point shot to help spread the floor and open up the middle for the pick-and-roll -- which is where Amar'e Stoudemire does his best work -- the Knicks are shooting 31.3 percent, which is 24th in the league.

They're certainly putting the "less" in Mike D'Antoni's famed "Seven Seconds or Less" offense.

"I don't know what it is," Anthony said. "We just have to get out of that slump, that shooting slump. We've got to start making shots."

It's a complete reversal of past seasons under D'Antoni, in which the team scored at a prolific rate but also allowed a lot of points, too. Now, they team's defense is statistically among the top 10 in the league, but they are struggling to score.

"We are playing defense," Anthony said, "but when you can't score the basketball, it makes it hard."

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WATCH GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS VS NEW JERSEY NETS LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

2012-01-18T06:15:00.000-08:00

WATCH GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS VS NEW JERSEY NETS LIVE ONLINE NBA BASKETBALL GAME JANUARY 18, 2012

Getting off to a slow start has become an alarming habit with the Nets.

For the eighth time in 14 games, the Nets started slowly and fell behind by double digits. The Chris Paul-less Clippers led by as many as 18 points (31-13) in the first quarter.

The huge deficit was too much for the Nets to overcome. Although they did manage to tie the game in the fourth quarter, the Clippers made the big plays down the stretch and sent the Nets to their 11th loss in 14 games overall and third in four contests on the team's Western Conference road swing.

"I feel bad for our guys because they played their hearts out," Nets coach Avery Johnson said after the 101-91 loss. "We have to do something different in the first quarter because we keep digging ourselves such a big hole. After the first quarter, we outplayed this team for the second, third and fourth quarters. We played good defense and cut down on our mistakes.

"Outside of the first quarter, I like the way this team battled. If we can get off to a better start and not give a team 32 points, I like our chances."

The Nets couldn't capitalize on facing a Clipper team without All-Star point guard Paul, who was out with a strained hamstring. However, after falling behind early, the Nets continued to fight and tied the game at 81-81 on a long 3-pointer from Deron Williams, his lone trey of the night, with 6:46 left.

"I thought that Shelden (Williams) and (Jordan) Farmar gave us a lot of energy in that fourth quarter, gave us a big boost to help tie the game," Johnson said. "But the ball didn't go our way in the final few minutes and then they sort of took control."

But the Clippers outscored the Nets 20-10 the rest of the way to put the game away.

The Nets return home to Newark Wednesday night for a matchup with the Warriors, but it's no consolation, because the Nets have not won at home in four games this season.

"I like the physicality of our players, the way we're playing hard," Johnson said. "They battled inside against a good team. It was a man's game inside and very physical and we were right in there, with Shelden, with Kris Humphries. I like the way we kept battling."

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