Saturday, February 11, 2012

Top 3 Sports Stories for Saturday Feb. 11

NHL - The Maple Leafs honoured their great captain #13 Mats Sundin. A player for whom the media in Toronto always gave little credit. The silence of critics can stay put, the proff of greatness is his banner hanging up high in the rafters of the ACC in between Maple Leafs greats George Armstrong and his fellow countryman Borje Salming.

It was reported that Leafs head coach Ron Wilson suggested to his team that if the guys wanted to honour Mats, the best way to do that would be by winning 2 points.

The best the leafs could do was hit two posts in the final 10 minutes of the game. The Leafs should of seen about finding Sundin some skates and putting him back in the line-up.

The Montreal Canadiens scored 5 goals and Carey Price turned aside 38 shots for this fourth shutout of the season and the 16th of his career.

Premiership Soccer

Manchester United hosted Liverpool and Wayne Rooney scored the teams two goals in a span of 4 minutes, lifting his team to a 2-1 narrow win. Liverpool were coming on strong but just came up short.

Before the game Liverpool star Suarez, refused to shake Man. U's captain Patrice Evra's hand before the game. Suarez pulled his hand back as he passed and Evra grabbed his forearm but Suarez just kept walking past.

Things continued to boil as Suarez hoofed the soccer ball into the stands as half in a bizarre move. To boot, after the game, Evra celebrated emphatically in front of Suarez and the refs had to take control and create space as some of the Liverpool players gathered to defend their player.

Strange game and strange behaviour from both clubs - they should act their age not their shoe size. But coming from a bunch of players who need to get carried off the field on a stretcher when they apparently hurt their ankle, it doesn't surprise me.

NBA-Linsanity

There might be no better story than that of Asian American Jeremy Lin's rise to fame. Scoring in heaps coming off the bench to help spur the Knicks and lead them on a five game win streak.




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