Hyvää uuttavuotta! Gott nytt år! Happy New Year!

Goodbye 2010

Welcome 2011

It's a new year and a new start and with that new start I am "relaunching" The Sin Bin Chronicles.

I want to thank those of you for reading in my first year. Over 3,000 views and the site was only active from May until October. I hope you all have enjoyed the site and continue to return.

As for what The Sin Bin Chronicles will include for this coming year I don't know... we'll see where the hockey world takes us.

New York Rangers to play Derek Boogaard today against Red Wings

Is this REALLY necessary? Derek Boogaard? No one is going to be fooled into thinking that the Rangers are going to use him for his puck posession quality (face it the guy hasn't scored a goal since Janurary 7, 2006.

Yes that is right Janurary 7, 2006 was the last time that enforcer Derek Boogaard has scored a goal in the NHL. He's played in over 200 games since then yet the New York Rangers felt they needed to sign him to a 4-year deal worth $6,500,000. That is a cap hit of around $1,600,000 a year.

In comparison:
Mike Modano $1,750,000
Kris Draper $1,583,333
Darren Helm $912,500
Justin Abdelkader $787,500
Partick Eaves $750,000
Ruslan Salei $1,100,000
Jimmy Howard $716,666

Even Chris Osgood is being paid only $1,416,667 and guess what - he's scored more recently that Derek Boogaard.

Anyway enough on that rant. The Rangers don't care what I think of their over paying for Boogaard.

The projected line combinations for the game tonight as the Rangers host the Red Wings is as follows:

Rangers

Frolov-Christensen-Gaborik
Fedotenko-Stepan-Avery
Kennedy-Anisimov-Callahan
Boogaard-White-Prust

Staal / Del Zotto
Rozsival / Sauer
Valentenko / Gilroy

Lundqvist
Biron

Red Wings

Johan Franzen - Valtteri Filppula - Todd Bertuzzi
Jiri Hudler - Justin Abdelkader - Drew Miller
Mattias Ritola - Darren Helm - Patrick Eaves
Joakim Andersson - Corey Emmerton - Jan Mursak

Niklas Kronwall / Jonathan Ericsson
Jakub Kindl / Brian Rafalski
Doug Janik / Brendan Smith

Jimmy Howard (start)
Joey MacDonald

Red Wings take on Rangers

After haveing three games in three days it feels like forever since we have seen the Red Wings play. Even though it has only been since Sunday night; but to those that have been waiting all summer for Red Wings hockey it was a long start to the week.

At least we get to watch the game tonight though, right?

Well maybe not so right.

The game tonight being played at Madison Square Garden against the New York Rangers is not being televised. So unless one of the teams decides to air the game on their website it looks might come down to digging out the radio to listen to WXYT 1270-AM to at least hear the game.

Don't have a radio other than in your car? Don't feel like sitting in your car all night to listen to the game? You're in luck! You can listen to the game on the web.

UPDATE: As pointed out by Tomi Seppala via Twitter the game will be coverd by MSG so there is a chance the game will be aired online.

Red Wings line up

Here is a projected list of line combinations for Wednesday's game in New York against the Rangers:

Image from Amanda Nitz

Johan Franzen - Valtteri Filppula - Todd Bertuzzi
Jiri Hudler - Justin Abdelkader - Drew Miller
Mattias Ritola - Darren Helm - Patrick Eaves
Joakim Andersson - Corey Emmerton - Jan Mursak

Niklas Kronwall / Jonathan Ericsson
Jakub Kindl / Brian Rafalski
Doug Janik / Brendan Smith

Jimmy Howard (start)
Joey MacDonald