TEAM STATISTICS ANTERO NIITTYMAKI Turku, FIN Overall Home Road Conf Last 5 Last 10 6-1 0-1-1, 2.90, .891 in Pre-Season 24-40-18 12-18-11 12-22-7 18-31-15 0-4-1 1-7-2 30 190 vs NE vs ATL vs SE vs CEN vs PAC vs NW GOAL MIKE SMITH Kingston, ON 9-7-4 4-9-7 5-14-4 2-2-1 3-3-0 1-4-0 6-4 3-0-0, 1.60, .942 Svs Pct in pre-season POWERPLAY KILLING 41 219 Missed final three months with post-concussion Synd. Overall Home Road Overall Home Road CEN VINCENT LECAVALIER "C" Ile Bizard, PQ 6-4 62 29 33 319 159 160 4 223 DEF MATTIAS OHLUND Pitea, SWE 345 179 166 409 199 210 6-4 18.0% 16.2% 19.9% 78.0% 79.9% 76.2% 5 225 19 22 11 25 21 30 DEF Carp, ON 6-5 INJURY REPORT/HEALTHY 6 223 DEF MATT WALKER Beaverlodge, AB 6-4 8 215 RW STEVE DOWNIE Newmarket, ON 6-0 9 200 CEN JEFF HALPERN "A" Potomac, MD 5-11 12-Malone 91-Stamkos 26-St Louis 11 190 13-Tanguay 4-Lecavalier 9-Downie LW Pittsburgh, PA 43-Wright 11-Halpern 16-Miller 6-4 17-Fedoruk 28-Konopka 19-Veilleux 12 220 5-Ohlund 77-Hedman LW ALEX TANGUAY Ste-Justine, PQ 14-Meszaros 41-Smith 6-Foster 6-1 54-Ranger 30-Niittymaki 8-Walker 13 192 COACHES COMMENTS DEF ANDREJ MESZAROS Provasta-Bystricka 6-2 14 223 RW DREW MILLER Dover, NJ 6-2 16 178 LW TODD FEDORUK Redwater, AB 6-2 17 232 RW STEPHANE VEILLEUX St-Georg, PQ 6-1 19 190 RW MARTIN ST LOUIS "A" Laval, PQ 5-9 26 177 CEN ZENON KONOPKA Niagara On Lake, ON PLAYER COMMENTS/MISC NUGGETS 6-0 Won Cup in 2003-04; Haven't made the playoffs in the past two seasons. 28 211 LAWTON: #1 priority was to get anchor on defense-Mattias Ohlund LW JAMES WRIGHT Saskatoon, SK CLOSE CALLS: 39 One goal games and posted a record of 10-29 in 2008-09 6-3 STABILITY? Ownership in flux, Tocchet and coaches are back, new faces. 43 196 PP: Have worked on it at length all week long. DEF PAUL RANGER Whitby, ON PRE-SEASON: About 10,000 miles of travel; Everett, WA, Winnipeg, Man, 6-3 Loveland, CO, Regina, Sask; Not a lot of practice time for the team. Hurt? 54 210 08-09 BLUELINE: Went through 20 defensemen, an all-time NHL record. DEF VICTOR HEDMAN Ornskoldsvik, SWE ADAM OATES: Unpaid consultant as favor to Tocchet. PP contributor at TC 6-6 77 230 CEN Markham, ON 6-1 91 196