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| ANAHEIM, Calif. - Ken Roczen raced to his second Angel Stadium victory of the AMA Supercross season, leading the final 19 laps in the 450SX Class final Saturday night.Roczen, the Suzuki rider from Germany, led all 20 laps in Anaheim two weeks ago in the opener to give RCH Racing — owned by Ricky Carmichael and Carey Hart — its first team victory.Roczen has four career 450SX victories, three at Angel Stadium. The series will return to Anaheim on Jan. 31 for the stadiums third and final race of the season.That was an awesome race. I fought hard the whole way, Roczen said. It was a tricky track, but I was able to get a good start, get into the lead early and ride my own race. Im so happy.KTMs Ryan Dungey was second. Hondas Eli Tomac, the Phoenix winner last week, was third.It was a good night and we gave a hard push, Dungey said. The first lap was chaos with everyone fighting for position, so Kenny got away a bit. I tried to close down the best I could, but lappers got in the way. The track was really difficult and you could only do so much. Im excited and well build from this.Roczen leads the season standings, 12 points ahead of Dungey.Yamahas Cooper Webb raced to his second straight Western Regional 250SK Class victory, taking the lead on the final lap with an aggressive move that knocked leader Tyler Bowers off the course.That was crazy, Webb said. I got a bad start and had to come through the pack, so I was just trying to get into the top five. Then I got into second and realized I had a shot at the win. On the last lap I had to just put it in there, so I did and I was able to get by.The 19-year-old Webb, from Newport, North Carolina, took the lead in the season standings, four points ahead of Bowers and Jessy Nelson after three races. Webb has two victories in 12 career starts.Bowers held on to finish second. The Kawasaki rider took the lead on the sixth lap when KTMs Nelson crashed with the lead. Nelson, the winner two weeks ago in Anaheim, rallied to finish sixth.I got a decent start, but I rode better with people in front of me than out front by myself, Bowers said. I didnt get tight or anything, I just made a lot of small mistakes. Were looking good in the championship with a third, a fourth and now a second, so its hard to be angry with that. If we can get a couple wins, well really be in this. Nike Air Max Fury Canada . It was the start of one nice night for the goalie and the Minnesota Wild. Backstrom made 33 saves in his first win of the season and the Wild defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 5-3 on Saturday in a rematch of their first-round playoff series. Nike Air Max Canada Sale . PETERSBURG, Fla. http://www.clearanceairmaxcanada.com/air-max-plus-canada-sale.html . "I wasnt waving the pom-poms to be involved with it to start with," Carlyle said after a 5-2 win over Carolina on Sunday night. "Its been a trying time. "Specifically we havent played as well as wed like to hang our hat on. Air Max 180 Canada . "Its amazing to do this coming from such a small island, where tennis isnt necessarily recognized as one of the main sports," Puig said. "Im just happy Im able to be here playing tennis not only for myself, but for my country too. Nike Air Max Motion Canada . According to TSN Edmonton reporter Ryan Rishaug, agent Rick Valette met with Oilers senior VP of hockey operations Scott Howson and general manager Craig MacTavish on Monday to kick off the talks.TORONTO – His teammates have said all the right things. Theyve defended him, branded the furious finger-pointing as unfair and claimed that they, not he alone, were responsible for the anxious beginnings of a slide that nearly and may still sweep them out of the playoff picture in the East. With Jonathan Bernier sidelined for the remainder of the regular season – he has an MCL strain in his left knee and will be out three weeks – the Maple Leafs will turn once more to the beleaguered, doubted and frequently dissected James Reimer in what may be his final days as a Leaf. But their goal of reviving playoff hopes that simmer tepidly with four games left dont rest solely on his 26-year-old shoulders. "Now its about time we have his back and step up to the plate," said Nazem Kadri defiantly after a much-needed overtime win against Boston on Thursday night. That wasnt the case the first time around. Reimer, who hasnt won a start in more than two and a half months, may have struggled badly in his first rescue attempt for Bernier last month – he posted an .871 save percentage in five starts (all losses) – but he was deserted on an island through much of the wreckage. Of the 18 goals he allowed in relief of his younger counterpart, four came via breakaway, two via odd-man rush and two more from the back-door with little to no opportunity for a save. "At that point when we were losing the team in front of him just couldnt bring it together and figure things out and obviously the goalies left out there to dry by himself," Kadri said. "We didnt play too good as a team," Carl Gunnarsson concurred. "We didnt help him out." That will have to change, starting Saturday when the Leafs host the Jets in the final regular season game at the ACC this spring. Trailing Detroit and Columbus for the final two wild card positions in the East, their hopes cannot rest on Reimer alone – especially at a point when his confidence has sunk to its lowest at the NHL level. Improvement isnt likely to magically appear in the teams defensive play – a struggle from start to finish – but the glut of glaring and often fatal mistakes needs to be kept to a minimum. Errors like two-time Rocket Richard winner Steven Stamkos being left alone to score three goals or Gustav Nyquist burning away for a pair of breakaway markers on the same night. Until recently, Bernier proved an acrobat at masking such deficiencies, piliing up eight wins when he faced more than 40 shots in a game this season.dddddddddddd Those theatrics, however, have evolved into expectation in Toronto, an unfair burden that became Reimers to shoulder when Bernier went down with a groin injury last month. The situation may have bubbled over in Detroit on Mar. 18. It was after that game against the Red Wings – a 3-2 loss for the Leafs – that head coach Randy Carlyle described his struggling goaltenders performance as "okay, just okay", comments that ignited a firestorm back home. While he later downplayed the remarks – addressing them with Reimer personally a day later – Carlyles blunt post-game observation seemed to ignore the manner in which Reimer was beat that night – two of the three goals came via the Nyquist breakaway, the third circa the odd-man rush – and thereby singled out the goaltender on a night when he was left alone on far too many occasions. It was the culmination of doubt which has surrounded Reimer upon his landing in Toronto for good in January 2011. "Its a non-issue as far as were concerned," Carlyle said Friday of the since quieted controversy. Reimer hasnt won a start since Jan. 21. Like his teammates, his level will need to rise substantially from where its been for the Leafs to have any hope of spicing up a late season race. For all the follies of those around him during the spiral last month, he could not deliver the one or two timely, game-changing saves needed most nights for success. That will have to change in the days ahead. A restricted free agent and almost certainly playing elsewhere next season, Reimer wondered before Thursdays surprise relief appearance if he had seen his last game as a Leaf. Now comes one final (in all likelihood) opportunity to exit on a positive and perhaps even uplifting note – if he and the Leafs can somehow defy the odds and get into the playoffs. "Honestly right now theres lots of thoughts swirling in your head about a lot of things," he said ahead of a clash with the Jets, "but now its just time to stop the puck. It doesnt really matter what transpires after the season or all that white noise per se. All Im trying to do is just play my best, get those two points (Saturday), and then go on to Florida. Try not to think about other stuff." "Ive had a lot of success in the past and had to carry the load in different scenarios and Ive been successful in that. I feel confident." ' ' 'l ' ' ' |
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