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Sunday, 30 January 2011 01:13

Written by Seth Rorabaugh

Penguins

-So... what's Ray Shero going to do with all these impending free agent forwards?

-"It was kind of scary."  - Kris Letang on competing in the NHL's skills competition last night.

-Letang speaks:

-Fleury speaks:

-John Curry made 29 saves for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in a 2-1 loss to the Binghamton Senators.

-Curry has  had to battle to stay in the Penguins' organization.

-A goal and four assists by Michael Bedard led the Wheeling Nailers to a 7-4 defeat of the Trenton Devils. Nick Petersen added a goal and three assists for the Nailers while teammate Ben Street netted a goal and two assists. Patrick Killee made 28 saves in the victory.

All-Star Lame Game

Some photos from last night's skills competition. Marc-Andre Fleury offering a reminder to Washington captain Alex Ovechkin of which hand stoned him back in the 2009 playoffs:

-We think.

-Fleury not stoning Ovechkin:

-Fleury being nice:

-Kris Letang taking the ice:

-The smoke/light introductions were pretty cool. Fleury:

-Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom:

-Tampa Bay's Steven Stamkos:

-Los Angeles' Anze Kopitar:

-Chicago captain Jonathan Toews:

-Bright times for Atlanta's Dustin Byfuglien:

-Carolina captain Eric Staal alone in the dark:

-Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist taking the ice:

-Edmonton's Taylor Hall being fast:

-Funny Face of the Night: Islanders forward Michael Grabner:

-Montreal's P.K. Subban being a fan of Carolina's Jeff Skinner:

-Skinner beating Fleury:

-Colorado's Paul Stastny handling the puck:

-A few players unleashing hell in the slap shot competition. Boston's Zdeno Chara:

-Nashville's Shea Weber:

-Chara put some smoke on this shot:

-Chicago's Patrick Sharp:

-Stamkos:

-Byfuglien:

-Ovechkin:

-Even Hartford Whalers fans were cheering for Chara:

-The two hardest shots in the NHL:

-Perplexed times for Ovechkin:

-Oveckin had a bit of an equipment malfunction:

-And a bit of a skate malfunction apparently as well:

-Buffalo's Tyler Ennis wheeling and dealing:

-Bruin on Bruin violence with Chara scoring on Tim Thomas:

-Happy times for Lundqvist and Carolina's Cam Ward:

-Chicago's Patrik Kane being a shutterbug:

-A Swedish get together with Lundqvist, Vancouver captain Henrik Sedin, Dallas Loui Eriksson, Lidstrom, Vancouver's Daniel Sedin, Phoenix's Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Ottawas Erik Karlsson:

-A reunion of current and former Blackhawks here with Kane, Toews, Byfuglien, Sharp, Chicago's Duncan Keith and Minnesota's Martin Havlat:

-Rookies Cam Fowler of Anaheim and Tyler Seguin of Boston having a moment:

-Wait... these guys have the same name?!?

-Chara's set a record with a slap shot of 105.9 mph.

Patrick Division

-Gary Bettman doesn't like concussions.

-Eric Levine made 56 saves for the Robert Morris men's team in a 2-2 tie with Niagara.

-Paul Chiasson had two goals for the Mercyhurst men's team in a 3-3 tie with RIT.

-Hillary Pattenden made 10 saves for Mercyhurst in a 2-0 shutout of Niagara.

(Photos: Shero-Matt Freed/Post-Gazette; All-Star Game-Bruce Bennett/Getty Images, Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images, Karl B. DeBlaker/Associated Press and Harry How/Getty Images)

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