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| Date | Player | News |
| 3/20/2010 | Ryan Kesler, C, Van | Kesler has signed a six-year contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks. The 25-year-old forward due to become a restricted free agent on July 1 is now under contract through the 2015-16 season. The Canucks didn't reveal financial details when they announced the deal on Friday. Analysis: Kesler is having a career season with 21 goals and 45 assists in 71 games. He has spent his entire career in Vancouver after being drafted 23rd overall in 2003. The U.S. Olympian has 86 goals and 206 points in 391 NHL games. He was a runner-up for the Selke Trophy as the league's top defensive forward last season. |
| 3/19/2010 | Brian Rolston, LW, NJ | Rolston is hampered by an undisclosed injury. Analysis: Details of Rolston's injury are unknown, but he's considered day-to-day. |
| 3/19/2010 | Antti Niemi, G, Chi | Niemi made 17 saves for his fifth career shutout in the Blackhawks' 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night. Analysis: Niemi, who recorded his first shutout since Dec. 23, could make his first career start against the Coyotes on Saturday with Cristobal Huet still recovering from the flu. Niemi had to make only three saves in the second period Thursday, but might be a little busier facing a surging Phoenix offense, which registered a season-best 46 shots in Thursday's 4-3 shootout win over Florida. |
| 3/19/2010 | Tomas Kopecky, RW, Chi | Kopecky scored twice in a 3:20 span in the third period in the Blackhawks' 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night. Analysis: Kopecky, who has six goals on the season, hadn't scored since Jan. 7, a span of 21 games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Joe Pavelski, RW, SJ | Pavelski had a goal and an assist in Thursday's 3-2 loss to the Canucks. Analysis: Pavelski has four goals and five assists in his last six games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Roberto Luongo, G, Van | Luongo made 32 saves in Thursday's 3-2 win over the Sharks. Analysis: Luongo is 5-1-0 with a 2.47 GAA in his last six games, allowing two goals or fewer in four of those contests. |
| 3/19/2010 | Alexander Edler, D, Van | Edler had a goal and an assist in Thursday's 3-2 win over the Sharks. Analysis: Edler has two goals in his last seven games after going his previous 31. |
| 3/19/2010 | Jean-Sebastien Giguere, G, Tor | Giguere made 24 saves to help the Maple Leafs beat the Devils 2-1 on Thursday night. Analysis: Giguere has won two of his last three starts after going 2-4-1 with a 2.42 GAA and two shutouts in his first seven starts for the Maple Leafs. |
| 3/19/2010 | Phil Kessel, RW, Tor | Kessel scored in regulation and in a shootout to help the Maple Leafs beat the Devils 2-1 on Thursday night. Analysis: Kessel has five goals and two assists in his last five games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Brian Elliott, G, Ott | Elliott stopped 21 of 27 shots in Ottawa's 6-3 loss to the Thrashers. Analysis: Elliott has recorded a 3.73 GAA in losing his last three starts. |
| 3/19/2010 | Colby Armstrong, RW, Atl | Armstrong had two goals in Atlanta's 6-3 win over the Senators on Thursday. Analysis: Armstrong recorded his first two-goal game since April 11, 2009. |
| 3/19/2010 | Nik Antropov, C, Atl | Antropov had two goals in Atlanta's 6-3 win over the Senators on Thursday. Analysis: Antropov has four goals and two assists in the last three games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Joe Corvo, D, Was | Corvo had two goals in Washington's 4-3 overtime loss to the Hurricanes. Analysis: Corvo, who has six goals and 11 assists in 42 games this season, recorded his first two-goal game since Feb. 20, 2009. |
| 3/19/2010 | Eric Staal, C, Car | Staal had a goal and an assist in Carolina's 4-3 overtime win over Washington. Analysis: Staal's 72nd career power-play goal, which tied it at 1 in the second, put him into second place on the franchise's career list past Kevin Dineen and 60 behind current associate head coach Ron Francis. |
| 3/19/2010 | Marian Gaborik, RW, NYR | Gaborik had a goal and an assist in Thursday's 4-3 loss to the Blues. Analysis: With 37 goals and 39 assists, Gaborik is five goals shy and two assists shy of matching career highs set in 2007-08. |
| 3/19/2010 | Mike Weaver, D, StL | Weaver scored a rare goal in the Blues' 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night. Analysis: Weaver hadn't scored a goal since March 23, 2007. "It really didn't bother me," the defenseman said of his drought. |
| 3/19/2010 | Paul Kariya, LW, StL | Kariya 400th NHL goal snapped a third-period tie and lifted the Blues to a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday night. Analysis: Kariya, who has 16 goals on the season, has scored in two of the past three games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Alexei Ponikarovsky, LW, Pit | Ponikarovsky had a goal in Pittsburgh's 3-0 win over the Bruin on Thursday. Analysis: Ponikarovsky's goal was his 21st of the season, but just his second in the last 13 games. |
| 3/19/2010 | Marc-Andre Fleury, G, Pit | Fleury made 17 saves in Pittsburgh's 3-0 win over the Bruins on Thursday. Analysis: Fleury bounced back nicely after allowing four goals on 13 shots in Wednesday's 5-2 loss to New Jersey. |
| 3/19/2010 | Patric Hornqvist, RW, Nsh | Hornqvist had a goal and an assist in Thursday's 5-0 win over the Wild. Analysis: Hornqvist has four points in his last three games. |
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