Canucks, Coyotes to face off in marquee matchup

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03/30/2010 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Lee Stempniak has been a force since the Phoenix Coyotes acquired him at this year's trade deadline. Henrik Sedin, meanwhile, has been pacing the Vancouver Canucks' offense all season long.

Stempniak will try to continue his torrid scoring for Phoenix tonight versus Vancouver and Sedin, the NHL's leader in points, at GM Place.

The Coyotes were very active at the trade deadline in the beginning of March, and those moves have helped to guide Phoenix to its first playoff berth since 2002. Though they had already clinched their spot earlier in the day on Saturday, the Coyotes still went out and roughed up the Colorado Avalanche, 6-2, to surpass the 100-point mark for the first time since joining the NHL as the Winnipeg Jets in 1979-80.

Phoenix, which has already set a single season-high with 47 wins this year, has 100 points, the most the franchise has recorded since a 102-point season in 1977-78 as a member of the World Hockey Association.

Three players acquired before the trade deadline factored into the scoring versus Colorado. Stempniak scored twice in the third period to blow open a one-goal game, while former Colorado skater Wojtek Wolski and Derek Morris, acquired from Boston, also lit the lamp.

Taylor Pyatt had a goal and an assist in his 600th NHL game and Vernon Fiddler capped the game with an empty-net goal. Ilya Bryzgalov made 27 saves for his 40th win of the season, improving Phoenix to 10-1-1 over its last 12 games.

"It's special for us as a team," said forward Shane Doan, who has been with the club since its days in Winnipeg. "Obviously there was a lot of doubts coming into this season by a lot of people. It's nice to answer those doubts."

The Coyotes will now focus their energy on catching the Sharks for first place in the Pacific Division. Phoenix trails San Jose by four points with six games to play.

It can thank Stempniak for that. The forward has 12 goals in 12 games since being acquired from Toronto after posting just 14 goals in 62 games before the trade. Saturday marked his fourth two-goal contest since the trade, with one of those coming in a 4-3 shootout win versus Vancouver on March 10.

The Coyotes have won two of three versus the Canucks this season, with both victories coming at home and in a shootout. They lost their lone trip to Vancouver, 4-0, on Jan. 7.

Alexandre Burrows notched his second hat trick in as many games in that victory, while Roberto Luongo posted a 31-save shutout. Luongo is 1-0-1 with a 0.96 goals-against average and .964 save percentage in two games versus the Coyotes this season.

Bryzgalov has also faced the Canucks twice this year, splitting the games while posting a 3.36 GAA and .889 save percentage.

Vancouver has won nine of its last 11 at home and is among the league leaders in home wins with 27. The club has won three of its last four at home versus Phoenix and is 13-2-0 with a tie in the last 16 home meetings in the series.

The Canucks have dropped four of their last six overall, including Saturday's 4-2 loss at San Jose. Vancouver, though, still owns a five-point edge over second-place Colorado in the Northwest Division with seven games to go.

"I don't think we've clinched anything yet," Luongo told his team's Web site. "Colorado's right there, and we're five points back of Chicago [for the second seed]. There's still seven games left, you never know what could happen"

Luongo made 26 saves against the Sharks, while Burrows had a goal and an assist, Daniel Sedin lit the lamp and Henrik Sedin assisted on both goals to up his NHL-leading points total to 101. He is the first Vancouver skater to reach 100 points since Markus Naslund had 104 in 2002-03.

Sedin has seven assists in his last four games as well as three goals and 18 helpers in his last 13 contests. He has a goal and five assists in three games versus Phoenix this season.

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.

The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

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