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HEAD COACH
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Terry Murray
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ROSTER
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C - Viktor Kozlov, Rob Niedermayer, Dave Gagner, Steve
Washburn. LW - Ray Whitney, Johan Garpenlov, Oleg Kvasha, Kirk
Muller, Bill Lindsay, Peter Worrell. RW - Scott Mellanby, Dino
Ciccarelli, Radek Dvorak, Mark Parrish. D - Robert Svehla, Gord
Murphy, Ed Jovanovski, Paul Laus, Terry Carkner, Rhett Warrener,
Jaroslav Spacek. G - Kirk McLean, Sean Burke.
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INJURIES
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Alex Hicks, lw (concussion, out indefinitely); Dino
Cicarelli, rw (out with a re-occurring back injury, could go at
any time).
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TRANSACTIONS
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Assigned Chris Wells, c, to New Haven of the AHL
for a two-week conditioning stint. January 4th - Assigned Andrew
Long, c, to Miami of the ECHL; Placed forward Alex Hicks on
injured reserve. January 5th - Recalled Marcus Nilson, rw, from
New Haven of the AHL. January 12th - Re-assigned Marcus Nilson,
rw, to the Beast of New Haven of the AHL.
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GAME RESULTS
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12/26 at Tampa Bay W 3-1
12/28 NY Islanders W 5-1
12/30 at Pittsburgh L 7-4
01/01 Carolina T 3-3
01/02 Pittsburgh L 4-2
01/05 at Phoenix T 2-2
01/06 at Colorado T 2-2
01/08 at Vancouver T 1-1
01/10 at Calgary W 2-1
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STANDINGS
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Southeast Division GP W L T PTS GF GA
Carolina 41 18 16 7 43 106 101
Florida 38 14 14 10 38 97 102
Washington 38 15 20 3 33 92 97
Tampa Bay 41 9 29 3 21 86 146
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TEAM NEWS
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by Matthew Secosky, Florida Correspondent
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The Panthers are 3-3-4 in their last ten contests and hold down
the 10th spot in the Eastern Conference. With a little over half
the season to be played, they are in great position to make a run
for the playoffs. Patience, my pet, patience.
Depending on how you look at it, Florida is either unbeaten
in their last four or have only won once in their last seven
contests. It's that glass half-empty, half-full thing again. Deep
shit, ya know.
Random Notes
Where's the Beef?
Panthers general manager Bryan Murray has denied rumors that
he has offered Ed Jovanovski, Rob Niedermayer, or Dave Gagner
to Vancouver in exchange for one Russian Rocket. But he admits
that he is looking to obtain a skilled defenseman and skilled
forward by mid-February.
"You look at (Colorado's) Joe Sakic, who gets points almost
every night," Murray said. "If you have that one guy who can
do that for you regularly, you can be competitive every night.
We've been looking for that."
Kozlov's First Time
The 18 reserves of the World All-Star team were released this
week and included on that list was the name of Viktor Kozlov.
This is Kozlov's first ever All-Star game appearance. Catch all
the action on January 24th.
"I'm very happy to be named to the All-Star team," Kozlov said.
"It's a great honor to be recognized with some of the top players
in the league. I'm excited about playing. It should be a great
time."
Eeewwww! Bugs!
Although he is an All-Star, it seems Viktor Kozlov is still a
mere mortal just like the rest of us. After all, he did come
down with the flu. The illness made him sit out of practice
Saturday and he missed Sunday's game against the Flames with
a 102-degree fever.
Oleg Kvasha took Kozlov's place on the line with left wing
Johan Garpenlov and right wing Radek Dvorak. Kozlov should return
to action this week.
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