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Yannick Weber and Tom Pyatt have both been reassigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs. Tom Pyatt has played 19 games with the Canadiens this season registering no points and a -9 defensive rating with 6 penalty minutes.

Yannick Weber has played just 3 games with the team this year registering 0 points and a -4 defensive rating.

Andrei Markov has done so well in his treatment that he may be back as early as next week! I don’t even care what I get for Christmas if Andrei Markov comes back. He’s probably the biggest impact for this team when he’s in or out.

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Guillaume Latendresse is visiting the Bell Centre for the first time since his trade for Benoit Pouliot but the Canadiens will look to come out swinging after a third straight loss against the New Jersey Devils last night.

Due to Roman Hamrlik’s injury in last nights game, Yannick Weber has been recalled from the Hamilton Bulldogs.

Carey Price will get his second start in a row after the .925 performance he achieved last night. Carey Price has only faced the Minnesota Wild one other time in his career with the Canadiens getting the win and Price only allowing one goal for a .966 save percentage.

The Canadiens are going to need to come out swinging in this one. The Wild have 35 points and are 8-2-0 in their last 10 games.

Mike Cammalleri has 10 points in 20 games against the Minnesota Wild and 8 points in his last 7 games. Expect at least 1 goal from Cammy tonight.

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Here is a link to the Hamilton Bulldogs game. The Bulldogs are out west facing off against the Manitoba Moose this week. The last game between these two a couple of days ago saw the Moose drop the Bulldogs by a score of 5-3.

The link below uses the Microsoft Media Server protocol so if you have Windows Media Player, VLC Player or Real Player (amongst others), you shouldn’t have a problem viewing the game.

This game starts at 8:30pm EST.

mms://cdncon.wm.llnwd.net/cdncon_neulion1_ahl_moose

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Hey folks, once again the Hamilton Bulldogs are playing the Abbotsford Heat in Abbotsford and you’ll find the link for the game below.

The game starts at 10:30 so it’s another late game.

In order to view the game you’ll need Windows Media Player, VLC Player, Real Media Player, or any software that can play Microsoft Media Server streams.

The Bulldogs got rocked by the Heat last night so let’s hope they can turn it around and score more then 1 goal tonight.

mms://cdncon.wm.llnwd.net/cdncon_neulion1_ahl_heat

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If you’re interested in watching the Hamilton Bulldogs face off against the Abbotsford Heat then you can view the game at the link below.

The game starts at 10:30pm EST.

The stream uses the Microsoft Media Server protocol so Windows Media Player will play the stream. You can also manually copy the link into VLC Media Player and Real Media Player along with a few others.

mms://cdncon.wm.llnwd.net/cdncon_neulion1_ahl_heat

* This link is not being streamed by me so I can’t guarantee the quality.

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If you’re interested in listening to the Hamilton Bulldogs and Toronto Marlies AHL game in Scotland that is going on right now, then just click on the link below to open the Hamilton Bulldogs radio on Talk 820.

Talk 820 Player

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Tonight (March 1, 2009) at 5:00pm ET, the AHL Live is having a free preview night at AHLLive.com. After registering you can view all of the 10 AHL games scheduled for tonight. They are:

Lowell Devils (NJ) at Portland Pirates (BUF), 4:00 ET
Quad City Flames (CGY) at Chicago Wolves (ATL), 4:00 ET
Grand Rapids Griffins (DET) at Toronto Marlies (TOR), 4:00 ET
Manchester Monarchs (LA) at Springfield Falcons (EDM), 4:00 ET
Norfolk Admirals (TB) at Albany River Rats (CAR), 5:00 ET
Houston Aeros (MIN) at Milwaukee Admirals (NSH), 5:00 ET
Hamilton Bulldogs (MTL) at Lake Erie Monsters (COL), 5:00 ET
Providence Bruins (BOS) at Hershey Bears (WSH), 5:00 ET
Bridgeport Sound Tigers (NYI) at W-B/Scranton Penguins (PIT), 5:05 ET
Binghamton Senators (OTT) at Rochester Americans (FLA), 6:05 ET

To register, go here.

Links

HF Gameday Thread

Hamilton Bulldogs Site

Lake Erie Monsters Site

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The Montreal Canadiens have acquired 27 year old T.J. Kemp from the Pittsburgh Penguins for a 7th round conditional draft pick in the 2010 NHL entry draft. Kemp has 9 points in the 22 games he’s played with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and has a +5 defensive rating.

Kemp will be joining the Hamilton Bulldogs.

Frankly, this is a weak move, a career AHL’er is not something that we need at the moment. He should be a good addition to the Bulldogs however.

Player Links:
HockeyDB Stats
AHL Player Profile

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Bob Gainey announced today that Loic Lacasse would be reassigned to the Hamilton Bulldogs from the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Lacasse was previously with the Bulldogs this year between December 12th and December 26th but did not get any starts. He has played 5 games this year for Cincinnati going 2-1-1 with a 4.10 goals against average and a .847 save percentage.

Lacasse has been moving around quite a bit this season and has yet to see any AHL games, but with a less than impressive 5 games with Cincinnati I doubt he’ll be used much as long as Desjardins is healthy.

Player Links:
Hockey’s Future Profile
HockeyDB

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If anyone is interested the ahl.neulion.com is offering a free preview tonight so all of the AHL games on tonights schedule are available for free.

The link is: http://ahl.neulion.com/

Other games on tonights schedule include:

Manchester vs Providence
Hartford vs Worcester
Portland vs Albany
Peoria vs Lake Erie
W-B/Scranton vs Philadelphia
San Antonia vs Chicago
Syracuse vs Rochester

Result:  Hamilton: 2 / Toronto: 1

A goal near the end of the third period by Desharnais, assisted by Max Pacioretty and Chad Anderson was the difference maker in this one.  Cedrick Desjardins was the winning goalie in this one and ended with a .972 save percentage.

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