Schultz to miss tonight’s Stars game; Draft Lottery to be televised Tuesday at 7 p.m. on VERSUS (little remembered 1998 Lightning/Panthers tidbit from Russo memory bank)
Posted on April 7th, 2009 – 11:03 AMBy Michael Russo
Defenseman Nick Schultz will miss his third-ever game due to injury tonight when the Wild hosts the Stars. The Wild is calling it a head injury, meaning this is the third member of the Wild’s “core” to be sidelined by a concussion in recent games.
Jacques Lemaire thinks Schultz’s head hit the glass in Detroit, but I hear Schultz doesn’t know when he got it and could have had it for a few days. Apparently, he just started having trouble seeing in the middle of the Red Wings’ game.
Brent Burns, out for the rest of the season and probably the world championships with a concussion, played with his for more than a month until one final hit sidelined him. And Pierre-Marc Bouchard, who has improved the past few days but is not ready to increase his workouts yet, practiced two straight days after getting concussed against the Islanders.
You can bet these players have discovered concussions are nothing to take lightly if it ever happens again.
Derek Boogaard took part in today’s morning skate. He won’t divulge what his injury was, but I’m pretty certain it wasn’t his back. He said it’s been a very frustrating month, starting with his five-game suspension after his Calgary hit.
Cal Clutterbuck’s ecstatic to have Boogaard back.
“I’ve been talking to the wall,” Clutterbuck quipped.
Adrian Peterson will do the Let’s Play Hockey tonight, along with friend Rocket Ismail.
Mike Greenlay, who’s got the night off because the game is on VERSUS, will do Stars’ color for Dallas radio because Daryl Reaugh is working the VERSUS booth with Joe Beninati.
Kurtis Foster and John Scott will both play on the blue line. There will only be one forward scratched. Peter Olvecky, who had a solid game in Detroit, will play. A decision will be made on Colton Gillies, whom Lemaire raved about today, and Craig Weller. Both Gillies and Weller stayed on late, but Gillies, who’s got an incredible work ethic, stays on late everyday.
So I’m guessing he’s in.
Congrats to Jim Dowd for a fine career. He officially retired today.
Here is the release from the NHL on the Draft lottery. Just one minor correction from Senor Russo.
In 1998, very few people remember this, but Tampa Bay did not win the lottery like the release states. Florida did. However, earlier in the season before the Panthers absolutely tanked (10-game winless streak followed by three-game winning streak followed by a 15-game winless streak including 13 straight losses, which by the way I remember off the top of my aching head), the Panthers traded their first-round pick to San Jose for Viktor Kozlov. The Sharks subsequently traded that pick to Tampa Bay.
Well, the Panthers won the lottery but since they had already traded the pick, the Lightning drafted Vincent Lecavalier. The Lightning, by the way, won a Stanley Cup in 2004. The Panthers? They haven’t won a playoff round since 1996, a playoff game since 1997 or appeared in the playoffs since 2000.
See, everybody makes mistakes, and certain ones cripple franchises.
NEW YORK/TORONTO (April 7, 2009) – The National Hockey League Draft Drawing, a weighted system to determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, will take place Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. ET at the NHL’s New York City office.
The League, in cooperation with TSN, will unveil the results of the Draft Drawing live during a 30-minute program – titled “Scotiabank / NHL Draft
LotteryTM“ – produced and televised by TSN in Canada. The special presentation will be simulcast on VERSUS in the U.S. Furthermore, the results will be streamed live on NHL.com and TSN.ca. It is the second consecutive year the Draft Drawing results will be televised live, and the third time since 2005.
Bill Daly, Deputy Commissioner of the NHL, will be live in TSN’s studios to reveal the order of selection for the top picks in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. The Draft Drawing involves Clubs that do not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, or the Clubs that acquired the first-round drafting positions of those non-playoff clubs.
Per NHL rules, the Club selected in the Draft Drawing may not move up more than four positions in the draft order. Thus, the only Clubs with the opportunity to receive the first overall selection are the five teams with the lowest regular-season point totals, or the Clubs that acquired an eligible Club’s first-round draft pick. No club will move down more than one position as a result of the Draft Drawing.
Under the weighted system, the Club with the fewest regular-season points will have the greatest chance (25%) of winning the Draft Drawing and will pick no lower than second. Based on team finish, the percentage chance of being selected in the Draft Drawing is:
30th place team - 25.0% 23rd place team - 3.6%
29th place team - 18.8% 22nd place team - 2.7%
28th place team - 14.2% 21st place team - 2.1%
27th place team - 10.7% 20th place team - 1.5%
26th place team - 8.1% 19th place team - 1.1%
25th place team - 6.2% 18th place team - 0.8%
24th place team - 4.7% 17th place team - 0.5%
The 2009 NHL Entry Draft will take place at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. The first round will take place on Friday, June 26 commencing at 7 p.m. (local time) and the subsequent rounds (two through seven) will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 27.
Results of Previous Draft Drawings
Year Selected Effect On Draft Order Player Selected
1995 Los Angeles Moved from 7th to 3rd D Aki Berg
1996 Ottawa Retained 1st selection D Chris Phillips
1997 Boston Retained 1st selection C Joe Thornton
1998 Tampa Bay Moved from 3rd to 1st via trades C Vincent Lecavalier
1999 Chicago Moved from 8th to 4th RW Pavel Brendl *
2000 NY Islanders Moved from 5th to 1st G Rick DiPietro
2001 Atlanta Moved from 3rd to 1st LW Ilya Kovalchuk
2002 Florida Moved from 3rd to 1st LW Rick Nash **
2003 Florida Moved from 4th to 1st G Marc-Andre Fleury ***
2004 Washington Moved from 3rd to 1st LW Alex Ovechkin
2005 Pittsburgh n/a C Sidney Crosby
2006 St. Louis Retained 1st selection D Erik Johnson
2007 Chicago Moved from 5th to 1st RW Patrick Kane
2008 Tampa Bay Retained 1st selection C Steven Stamkos
* NY Rangers obtained Chicago’s pick in a trade (via Vancouver and Tampa Bay). The Rangers selected RW Pavel Brendl fourth overall.
** Columbus obtained Florida’s pick in a trade. The Blue Jackets selected LW Rick Nash first overall.
*** Pittsburgh obtained Florida’s pick in a trade. The Penguins selected G Marc-Andre Fleury first overall.
Another Russo tidbit because I am the residential Panthers’ man, but regarding the two previous notes, Panthers’ then-GM Rick Dudley made those trades because he knew 100 percent beforehand after talking with the teams he flipped with that the Panthers would still be able to draft the players they wanted first overall anyway, Jay Bouwmeester and Nathan Horton, respectively.
40 Responses to "Schultz to miss tonight’s Stars game; Draft Lottery to be televised Tuesday at 7 p.m. on VERSUS (little remembered 1998 Lightning/Panthers tidbit from Russo memory bank)"
Gosh. Sorry about that, Dallas.
Glad to see my Aeros are being put to use there. 
Ditto to JimmyD. I love him on NHL Live now.
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Hey Dallas fans, hope you enjoy Greenlay tonight. You might want to run your vacuums for a few hours this afternoon to prep your ears for a whole lot of suck tonight.
Tonight:
Wild win
STL Lose
NSH Lose
and suddenly we are right back in this
is parrish playing tonight
My beef is that they are not a team that is positioned for consistent success and that is Smug’s responsibility.
fair
Our hardworking boys suffer because he doesn’t do his job. Sneaking a win past Calgary or San Jose makes for an enjoyable evening, but it shouldn’t obscure that fact.
who says it does? why can’t the wild play a solid hockey game and get credit for it?
I miss Jimmy D! His last year or two in Philly with the ’stache were damn entertaining.
Kudos Jimmy, bigtime!
So, we have a 1.5% - 2.1% chance of moving up 4 spots in the draft.
Instead of drafting 9th or 10th, so instead of picking Kadri or Panik, we might have a shot at Schroeder - if we didn’t have a GM that refused to draft Americans, let alone, Minnesotans.
Greenlay broadcasting to Dallas?
Finally, we get even!!!
- Nice one kj
- if we didn’t have a GM that refused to draft Americans, let alone, Minnesotans.*
* Except for AJ Thelan
Far be it for me to defend Smug, but if you are going to take that shot, can you tells us what Minnesotans/Americans he has had the chance to draft but passed on?
Could we be so lucky as to have Dallas like what they hear and ’steal’ him from us? I’d be willing to make a small monetary contribution to that end if necessary.
Enjoy retirement Jimmy.
M 03 per your 9:30 last night on the previous thread:
I picture myself winning Boogies jersey every year, and every year a short blond 10 year old girl who barely reaches his knee caps wins his jersey. I did have a dream I won Gaby’s jersey and he refused to give it to me because I wasn’t supermodel gorgeous. The Wild officials were horrified and let me pick a jersey from any of the remaining guys I wanted, it was Cal, SRV, and PMB left. I picked Cal. Then Cal and Boogie held Gaby down while I punched him for calling me ugly. Boogie complimented me on my form. It was a very odd dream.
BG…If I win Boogaard’s jersey, I wouldn’t feel right keeping it!
Your not a short blond 10 year old girl kj, there for you won’t win Boogie’s jersey. I think the Wild does it on purpose for the cute photo op.
I’m ready for this Wild season to be over. I’ve had enough, thanks.
BG, that dream is totally unrealistic… It wouldn’t take both C-buck and Boogaard to hold down Gaborik. 
Goody, I never said they needed to hold him down, just that they did. Several on the team offered, even JL and Rammer when they came back out of the locker room due to the amount of swearing coming from the team. It was a very detailed dream.
6GS, just last year, he passed on Johnny Carlson and McCullum in the 1st round. Both were USA players, and Carlson was ranked 2 spots below Cuma. McCullum was the #1 NA goalie in the draft, and he ended up going last in the 1st round.
I’m not gonna criticize this one though lol, but in ‘03 he passed on Mark Stuart and Ryan Kessler and took Burnsie.
Schultz is going to miss tonight’s game?
Will anyone notice?
as an aside..
Carlson: not injured, better production, better defensively, better size
Cuma: Not good defensively, smaller stature, 35lbs ligther than Carlson, good offensive mind.
Cuma is another Marek Zidlicky.
Johnson is something we’ve never really had here. He would have been my pick.
lol i wrote johnson, but I meant john carlson. hehe
MuN - I will keep an eye on Carlson - the Wild were big on Cuma and probably other teams were too but considering Cuma cost the team 2 picks, I will say he must be significantly better than Carlson in short order or you will have Smug in the Minnesota hater box with this one.
I should have said American hater as Carlson, like the media’s newest member for life Jim Dowd, hails from New Jersey.
Greenlay certainly hasn’t had his heart in doing Wild broadcasts, has he. His pro-Calgary stance always shows through… now he is working for the Wild’s opponent? Just looking for a paycheck like the rest of us, I guess!
Parrish is playing.
yeah, we are going to miss Schultz. You will see more Zids and MAB. Johnsson and Skoula will get overworked.
Its not good.
6GS, Carlson might make it up next fall, but I think it’ll be 2 years before he’s ready for the NHL on a daily basis.
Cuma was highly touted, because he’s fast and can make plays, but he’s not big enough, and his Achilles heel is his D. I think he’ll be a great defenceman and that alone should save Smug from a lambasting, but I think Carlson will be a better, more complete player, especially in his own end.
Imagine Nick Schultz type D, but also putting up 40-50 points.
“Cuma is another Marek Zidlicky”
You cannot be serious with this comparison?
G* says:
>>>why can’t the wild play a solid hockey game and get credit for it?<<>>>this would be my frustration. that the team can show they can compete with anyone one night and then just stink like bertuzzi the next. not acceptable<<<
I tried to point out that you may be frustrated because your expectations are not aligned with reality. You want to believe the Wild are better than they are so you become a victim of confirmation bias. You see something that supports your desired point of view so you hang your hat on that rather than looking at the total picture.
I point out that maybe they aren’t as good as they looked against the Flames and you accuse me of giving them no credit. How do you do that?
You revel in this game of trying to pin Jello to a wall don’t you?
Unfortunately for Dallas fans, Greenlay will be ‘enjoyed’ only on the radio side with the ultimate traitor, Ralph ‘I sucked up to Norm Greed’ Strangis.
The rest of you are stuck with someone even more stuck on himself (if that’s possible) than Strangis; Daryl Reaugh, a.k.a. ‘Razor’. I almost hate this guy worse than D’er (hence why I will not watch or listen on XM to a Dallas feed). Reaugh’s attitude and high whine makes Hayseed (Anaheim) sound like a Phi Beta Kappa.
‘Razor’ sucks…
P.S.: Ms. C. …the button did not arrive today, so I will not have it for tonight’s game.
Pardon the above. Apparently I need a remedial course in > < 101.
how come you all complain about not having any american players we gor fritsche he’s from ohio or something and any way who care’s where there from are prejudice or what if the guy can play i don’t care where he’s from.
i hope the wild win and
STL Lose
NSH Lose
then we still have a chance
As long as we win tonight, we still have a chance, regardless of what STL and NSH do, but it would certainly be helpful. We need them to lose two of their last three, while we win out.
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Dowd is a solid guy, he played in my friends tournament out in Jersey a couple weeks ago said it was good times.
Why the Greenlay hate???? I guess I’m just one of those people who don’t pay much attention to the announcers but I have no prob with Mikey.
1. I was so glad when the hate started on terhaar and greenlay - not that I like hate, but they drive me nuts and it’s good to know that it’s not me. (pet peeve: “He centers it in front.” Where else do you center it to, Danny?)
2. cheering for ‘em tonight no matter what, gaby scores to up his value: yipee! gaby scores to help the team: yipee!
3. interesting burns article in the hockey news: http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/25112-THNcom-Blog-Dont-forget-about-Wilds-Burns.html
4. maybe jl and dr need to move on - ever heard of an owner firing the leaders and trying to lure a star back? it’s hard to imagine that working with gaborik, but we are a vastly better team with him…
ted:thank you for the hot link to THN and Burns article.
BG: you made my day! Awesome dream. I will still send out positive vibes for you.
It’s the vacant look in his eyes, Tom. I can’t even look at him.
Wow, sick save by Varlamov. He’s a quick one.
