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* Ducks are 19-29-9 (47 points)

* Fifth in Pacific Division

* Tenth in Western Conference

* D David Karpa gets goal in 300th NHL game.

FORWARD At Oilers, 6:30 tonight: Edmonton hopes the Olympics will boost the play of Andrei Kovalenko, who the Edmonton Sun reports is having the worst season of his six-year NHL career. He had five goals through 49 games. He scored six in six games with Russia in Nagano.

https://www.canoe.ca/Hockey/feb.25--edm.html

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Blues, 5 p.m. Sunday: Pierre Turgeon is looking for his first multipoint game since Jan. 3, according to ESPN SportsZone. That streak covers 15 games. https://espn.sportzone.com/nhl/clubhouses.stl.html

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Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday: Detroit is trying to move into a position where it could avoid playing Dallas or Colorado until the Western Conference finals. “That could be a big deal, not having to face those guys right away,” goaltender Chris Osgood told the Detroit Free Press.

https://www.freep.com/sports/redwings/qwings25.htm

OPEN The shootout, which the Czech Republic used to beat Canada in the Olympics, is the topic of a poll regarding its use to decide games in the NHL. It’s a good chance to vote on the topic and then check what other fans are saying. The numbers might surprise you.

https://www.foxsports.com/foxpolls/p022498.htm

QUOTE “We are a two-sport nation: Hockey, and all that other stuff. If we won every gold medal in every other event, the talk in the pubs and coffee shops and office buildings today would still be about how Marc Crawford could have been dumb enough to choose [Ray] Bourque in the shootout with the Czechs and leave [Steve] Yzerman and [Wayne] Gretzky sitting on the bench.”

--Jim Taylor of the Calgary Sun is still trying to deal with Canada’s shortcomings in Olympic hockey

https://www.canoe.ca/Hockey/feb23--taylor.html

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