Starting Goalies - Wednesday, November 23, 2011

[Patrick]

Lots of important match-ups today. Can the Ducks halt their skid? Can the Bruins continue their winning streak? We'll find out this evening.

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Post your comments, questions, and confirmations about today's goalies in this thread.

[Mike]

If I'm not mistaken, tonight is the first meeting between the Bruins and the Sabres since Lucic annihilated Miller (http://www.leftwinglock.com/content.php?185-Lucic-Drills-Ryan-Miller). Should be some fireworks tonight. If you own Lucic, make sure you start him for the PIMs. Expect Gaustad to earn you some PIMs if you need a spot start.

[hovercraft]

I have Backstrom, Lehtonen and Lundy tonight. Leaning towards Lundy and Backstrom

[Patrick]

Tim Thomas off the ice first this morning. He'll likely be going for his third straight shutout tonight. via @HackswithHaggs (https://twitter.com/#!/HackswithHaggs/status/139387036305080320)

[72 B's]

I have Backstrom, Lehtonen and Lundy tonight. Leaning towards Lundy and Backstrom

Yeah, I agree.

[Mike]

Not that it is relevant to tonight's game, but you might see Hackett as the backup to Backstrom this evening. He tweeted something a little earlier today about 'going up' but has since removed the tweet. I emailed the Wild's beat writer about 10 minutes ago and am hoping to find out what's up.

http://www.leftwinglock.com/images/blogposts/hackett/hackett.png

[GoLeafs]

I wanna play Thomas and Quick but part of me doesnt wanna play Thomas as i think fit will hit the shan during the bos buf game. I might go with Quick and Brodeur to be safe.

[Mike]

Regarding my post above: I heard back from Michael Russo (from Russo's Rants (http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/Russos_Rants.html)). Here is a summary:

Backstrom is still on track to start tonight. He could possibly need to leave the team in the next few days for a day or two. This is not injury/trade related.

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With the Wild playing on both Friday and Sunday, it is possible that Harding will get a start soon.

[Mike]

Ok, so my cryptic note above actually came to fruition a bit sooner than expect. Backstrom is out; Harding is in.

http://www.leftwinglock.com/starting-goalies/

[NightParade]

I gave advice saying Backstrom was likely to get more starts this week than Khabi, oops.

[Leafs]

I can play two of the following

Howard vs Flames
Lehtonen vs Kings
Smith vs Ducks

[flubber]

Enroth not confirmed? Anything up or there is just no source yet. If healthy its hard to imagine he doesn't play today with a day off tomorrow

[Patrick]

Enroth not confirmed?

Haven't seen anything from the Coach confirming Enroth. However, there's no way they go with MacIntyre tonight.

[Mike]

Enroth not confirmed? Anything up or there is just no source yet. If healthy its hard to imagine he doesn't play today with a day off tomorrow

Not expecting any surprises here. I've seen author-less Yahoo notes about Enroth starting but they reference Buffalo News articles that don't exist.

[bluerider]

I'd go Howard and flip a coin on the other two. A week ago I would've said Lehtonen in a second, but things have cooled out a bit in Dallas since then.

If I must pick two, I'd say Howard and Smith. But something tells me the Ducks are going to start showing up sometime soon and tonight could be the night.

Hope my $.02 can help a little...

[NightParade]

Even if the Ducks were rolling Smith and the Yotes can't be discounted. Howard and Smith for sure.

EDIT: Rinne you have about 50 mins to be confirmed before I have to go and put Crawford in your place, hope you check the forums.

[Patrick]

Enroth now confirmed.