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With NHL superstars Marian Hossa and Ilya Kovalchuk and a healthy goaltender, Kari Lehtonen, the Thrashers clinched their first playoff berth, winning the Southeast Division title with 43 wins and claiming the # 3 seed and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
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With the NHL preparing for looming labor unrest, the Flyers let their leading scorer, Mark Recchi, leave for Pittsburgh during the off-season.
With the increasing difficulty of scheduling games at Boston Garden ( owned by the NHL rival Boston Bruins ), the owners decided to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut beginning with the 1974-75 season.
With a capacity of over 21, 000 people for hockey, the Greensboro Coliseum became the highest-capacity arena in the NHL.
With the win, Pistons owner William Davidson became the first ( and to this date, the only ) owner to win both NBA and NHL championships in the same year, having won the Stanley Cup as owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
With the third overall pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, the team selected Jonathan Toews, who led the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux hockey team to the 2006 NCAA Frozen Four.
With the intention of attracting an NHL franchise, Vancouver began the construction of a new modern arena, the Pacific Coliseum, in 1967.
With the second overall selection in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft, the Canucks chose winger Trevor Linden from the Western Hockey League.
With Naslund's departure, Gillis announced on September 30, 2008, that Luongo had been named team captain, marking the first time since Bill Durnan of the Montreal Canadiens in 1947 that a goaltender had been named the captain of an NHL team.
With both on the verge of folding, the NHL permitted the two failing franchises to merge.
With several key players like future NHL star Wojtek Wolski, Luch Aquino, and Daren Machesney gone the team slumped in the 2006 – 07 season barely making the playoffs with a 27-36-1-4 record, only good enough for the last playoff spot ( 8th ) in the East.
With seven goals and seven assists over the final seven games of the season, Kariya was named NHL Player of the Month for April.
With 20 penalty minutes over 82 games, Kariya won the Lady Byng Trophy as the league's most gentlemanly player and was also named to the season-ending NHL First All-Star Team.
With his original NHL contract expiring in the off-season, Kariya and the Ducks struggled to agree on a new deal.
With NHL play set to resume for the 2005 – 06 season, Kariya became an unrestricted free agent in August 2005.
With five shootout goals over seven attempts, Kariya ranked fourth in the NHL in shootout scoring percentage at 71. 4 % ( among players who had taken at least five attempts ).
With the hat trick, Kariya reached the 900-point mark in his NHL career.
With his success at the 1994 Winter Olympics and World Championships, Wayne Gretzky heralded Kariya as the next NHL superstar.
With Washington out of playoff contention late in the 2001 – 02 season and with his contract expiring following the season, the Capitals dealt Oates to the Philadelphia Flyers on March 19, 2002, in exchange for goaltender Maxime Ouellet and the Flyers ' first, second and third round selections in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.
With Alfredsson scoring in the shootout, he became the first captain in the NHL history to do so.
With NHL play set to resume in 2005 – 06, Spezza returned to Ottawa.
With yet another new head coach ( Jimmy Gardiner ) the Hamilton Tigers roared off to an impressive 10 – 4 – 1 start in the 1924 – 25 NHL season.
With amassing a staggering 3565 penalty minutes, Hunter currently has the second-most penalty minutes in NHL history, after Dave " Tiger " Williams ( although Hunter played 1, 407 games to Williams ' 962 ).
With the realignment of the NHL into four divisions for the 1974 – 1975 season, the 1975 All-Star Game was the first to pit the Wales Conference against the Campbell Conference.
With the geographical realignment of the NHL for the 1981 – 1982 season, the 1982 All-Star Game was the first between the Wales and Campbell Conferences that featured players from eastern teams against players from western teams.
With and superstars
With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.
With Canadian country rock superstars Blue Rodeo as a back-up band, Music Express called the 1989 Juno appearance a symbolic " passing of the torch " from The Band to Blue Rodeo.
With a generation of legendary and unforgettable superstars: Garrincha, Nilton Santos, Didi, Amarildo, Mario Zagallo, Manga and Quarentinha, the club won the Campeonato Carioca in 1957, 1961 and 1962.
With the exception of Mexican-American Santana, these American superstars were all black, and their presence in Accra was seen as legitimizing Ghanaian music.
With that in mind, RKO signed former record superstars like Rudy Vallee, the Harmonicats and Ted Lewis in hopes of recapturing their glorious past.
With Bret Hart's departure for WCW, Austin and Shawn Michaels were the top superstars in the company.
With the emergence of superstars Karl Malone and John Stockton, the Jazz became one of the best teams in the NBA.
With " Los Panchos ", he recorded to Japanese albums, and he also performed alongside many superstars, such as Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and others.
With the tour supporting Signos, Soda Stereo became international superstars.
Kenny admitted in his book " Making It With Music ," that he perhaps shouldn't have complained about MGM's poor distribution on a radio show, but despite their mounting problems, New Zealand continued to consider the First Edition as superstars.
With and Marian
With the help of his wife, Marian, the Ilitches opened Little Caesars Pizza Treat in Garden City, Michigan, the first of what would become many thousands of restaurants through franchising.
With the success of Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, and Paul Robeson, among others, his seminal role in carving out a place on America's recitals had been eclipsed.
With the accession of the new queen, many Marian exiles hoped for further reform upon their return to England and for the final removal of vestments from mandatory church use.
With the victory at Battle of Lepanto ( 1571 ) accredited to her, it " signified the beginning of a strong resurgence of Marian devotions.
With and Hossa
With seven points in four tournament games, Hossa was named to the Memorial Cup All-Star team, along with teammate Andrej Podkonický.
With and Ilya
With the writings of Théophile de Donder as precedent, Ilya Prigogine and Defay in Chemical Thermodynamics ( 1954 ) defined chemical affinity in terms of the uncompensated heat of reaction Q the reaction progress variable or reaction extent ξ ; as the ratio of their infinitesimal increments:
With three crew and two defensive machine-guns, a V type Ilya Muromets could carry 500 kg ( 1, 100 lb ) of bombs.
0.736 seconds.