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CLINTON, S.C. – The Presbyterian College baseball team used 12 hits, including two home runs, to rack up 13 runs in the series finale against Army on Sunday afternoon en route to a 13-4 win at the PC Baseball Complex to claim the series victory. PC evens it recorded to 11-11, while Army falls to 7-12 on the year.
How It Happened
PC created a lead in its first at-bat with a three-run first inning. Brett Auckland, batting in the leadoff spot for the first time this year, led off the game with a double past the first baseman. Tyler Weyenberg reached on an error attempting a sacrifice bunt, which allowed Auckland to score from second for the first run of the game. AJ Priaulx drew a walk to put two on with no outs, before TJ Richardson moved both runners up with a sacrifice bunt. Nick Guimbarda then delivered with a two-run single to center to score both runners and give PC a 3-0 lead.
Army answered with two runs in the fourth and another coming across in the fifth. The first two Army batters reached in the fourth on back-to-back walks to setup a two-RBI triple by Josh White later in the inning to make it 3-2 game. In the fifth, Baggio Saldivar doubled to lead off the inning and then scored on an error to tie the game at 3-3.
PC responded with five runs in the bottom of the fifth, before adding five more runs in the sixth. Weyenberg started the fifth with a single to left center and Connor Slagill followed with a pinch-hit walk to put two aboard with no outs. Richardson attempted his second sacrifice of the day but an error allowed him to reach and brought Weyenberg in from second, as PC regained the lead at 4-3. After Guimbarda walked to load the bases, a wild pitch plated one and a sacrifice fly by Colton Chapman scored another to make it a 6-3 game. Nick Wise then hit his third home run of the season, a two-run drive to right center, to clear the bases and make it an 8-3 lead. Cletis Avery followed with a double and Andrew Bladt reached with a bunt single to threaten for more runs, but a double play finally ended the inning.
The Blue Hose picked up where it left off in the sixth. After a flyout to center, Slagill drew another walk and Richardson was hit by a pitch to put two on with one out. A fielder's choice then put runners on the corners with two outs but PC took it from there. Chapman doubled to right center to drive in both runners for the ninth and 10th runs of the game. After a single by Wise put two aboard, Avery hit his first home run of the season with a deep drive to left to clear the bases make it a 13-3 PC advantage.
Army added a lone run in the ninth on a solo home run by Matt Hudgins. It was the only run allowed by the PC bullpen on the day, as it worked 5.0 innings and allowed just the one run on two hits with six strikeouts against three walks.
Pitchers of the Record
PC reliever Robert Moss (2-0) earned his second win of the year, working 2.0 scoreless innings out of the bullpen and allowing one hit with a strikeout and a walk. Moss entered the game with two on and no outs in the fifth but managed to work out of the jam without allowing a run, inducing a flyout and a 4-6-3 double play to retire the side.
Army reliever Sam Messina (0-1) suffered the loss in what proved to be a tough outing, as he failed to record an out and allowed three runs without allowing a hit but issuing a pair of walks.
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Several are deserving on a big day at the plate for PC but Cletis Avery proved big on the afternoon. The senior went 2-for-5 with a double, a homer, a run and three RBIs in the win. His three-run homer was his first of the season and the second PC long ball of the day. It was also his first three-RBI game of the year.
- Nick Wise continues to produce for PC, going 2-for-4 with a home run, two runs and two RBIs in the victory. The homer was Wise's second of the week and his team-leading third of the season.
- Colton Chapman drove in three of the team's 13 runs in the win, going 1-for-3 with a double, a run and the three RBIs.
- Brett Auckland went 2-for-3 with two walks, a double and a run out of the leadoff spot in the game. It was his first game batting atop the order this season. Auckland has raised his average from .222 to .350 over his last seven games.
- All nine PC batters in the order collected at least one hit, while eight of the nine scored at least one run.
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It's tempting to think that global stocks are only now "catching up" to our stalwarts here at home, but that's not quite right. The uglier truth is that American stocks, as a group, underperform when compared with the wider world.
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Peter Lynch has famously advocated for buying what you know, right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. Still, even Lynch spent time overseas studying foreign stocks that others wouldn't buy, such as Volvo. That's a key reason why he earned 29%-plus average annual returns while leading Fidelity Magellan.
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After a roller-coaster decade of boom-bust-boom, the U.S. housing market is going downhill just when many economists thought annual sales would be heading up.
Sales of previously owned properties in March tumbled 7.5 percent from a year earlier to the slowest pace in 20 months, while purchases of new houses sank 14.5 percent from February, according to reports this week. Mortgage applications to buy homes plunged 19 percent from a year earlier, indicating slowing demand during what is typically the busiest season for deals.
The housing market's underlying fragility is emerging as outside influences that fueled a two-year rebound are receding. Mortgage interest rates are rising from record lows as the central bank withdraws its stimulus, and investors, who had helped drive national prices up more than 20 percent as they went on a buying spree, are now retreating.
"The very low rate environment and the high level of investment activities really masked how weak the housing market was," Sam Khater, deputy chief economist at Irvine, California-based CoreLogic Inc., said in a telephone interview. "Once it goes back to the normal owner-occupied purchase market, you really realize how weak the market is."
While last year's spring buying season was characterized by bidding wars across the country as buyers rushed to take advantage of record-low mortgage rates amid low inventory, the market so far in 2014 has been more affected by issues specific to local geographic areas.
Phoenix, Denver
Sales are slipping in Phoenix and Las Vegas, where traditional buyers aren't stepping in to fill the void left by investors. In San Francisco, Denver and Dallas, where job growth is robust, listings are scarce and overpriced for many house hunters.
"We've had a boom and we've had a bust, and those were all national events," said Mark Palim, vice president for applied economics and housing research at Fannie Mae in Washington. "Now that national drivers are less significant to the market, you're seeing the re-emergence of local economic factors."
Buyers, already handicapped by tight credit and weak wage growth, felt the hit to their purchasing power when mortgage rates jumped last year. The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 4.33 percent this week, according to Freddie Mac, up a full percentage point from near record lows last May as the Federal Reserve scales back bond purchases. That raised the cost of a $200,000 mortgage by 13 percent, with monthly payments climbing to $993 from $881.
Sticker Shock
The National Association of Realtors' Housing Affordability Index, fell 16 percent in the 12 months through February, the most recent month available.
Prices have climbed so fast in the last two yearts that buyers have sticker shock, said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. He projects that sales will decline 2 percent this year after predicting, at the start of the year, for a small increase over 2013.
"Housing is a victim of its own success," Yun said. "It's just that the fast price growth is not healthy."
Interest rates on 30-year mortgages are still about half the 8.36 percent average since 1971, according to Freddie Mac's data. Rates on 30-year loans peaked at 18.6 percent in 1981.
Housing affordability is still 25 percent above the average since back to 1986, based on the trade group's composite index, which measures housing costs, household income and interest rates.
Still Affordable
"When you talk about 3 to 4 percent interest rates, that's still lower than what most of us are used to and as much as 12 percentage points lower than what we remember at the worst of the market," Stefan Swanepoel, editor of Swanepoel Trends Report, a real estate industry journal based in San Juan Capistrano, California, said in a telephone interview.
Lenders have begun to loosen credit for home purchases as they seek to hold onto business that plunged as fewer homeowners refinanced. The average FICO score for conventional purchase mortgages was 755 in March, compared with a 763 average in 2012, according to Ellie Mae Inc., a mortgage-software provider. The average loan-to-value for conventional loans rose to 81 percent in March from 79 percent two years ago.
It's too early to say that the market's recovery is faltering, said Paul Diggle, a housing economist with London- based Capital Economics Ltd. Bad weather accounted for slower sales in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, he said.
"We have taken an optimistic view that as investor demand starts to drop off, we'll see improvement in organic demand," Diggle said. "If we don't see anything by the middle of the year, we'll be changing our outlook."
Builder Earnings
One sign things aren't all bad: D.R. Horton Inc., the largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue, Thursday reported earnings and orders that beat analyst estimates. The company is experiencing "solid demand," Chief Executive Officer Donald Tomnitz said. The shares jumped 8.3 percent.
The broader cooling trend follows a decade of market turmoil. The housing bubble, fueled by lax subprime lending from 2004 to 2006, led to the biggest bust since the Great Depression. Prices fell 35 percent from their July 2006 high and 5 million owners went through foreclosure, many of them still ineligible to qualify for a mortgage. After rebounding from a March 2012 low, the S&P/Case-Shiller index of 20 cities is at 2004 levels.
The recent slowdown in sales is making Moody's Analytics Inc. Chief Economist Mark Zandi "nervous" about his projection that job growth and wider credit availability will push existing-home sales up 5 percent and new-home sales up 40 percent this year.
"I hadn't expected this type of flat-lining in the housing market for this long," Zandi, who's based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in a telephone interview. "Investors have driven the market since the turn, back in early 2012, and investor demand is petering out."
Investors who swooped in to take advantage of low prices — including companies such as Blackstone Group LP and American Homes 4 Rent buying homes to turn them into rentals — have retreated as costs rise and fewer distressed properties come to the market. The share of individual investor purchases declined in March to 17 percent, the smallest for that month in data since to 2008, according to the National Association of Realtors.
Less Distress
Foreclosures and short sales, in which the borrower sells for less than what's owed, accounted for 14 percent of March transactions, down from 21 percent a year earlier, the group said. The pipeline is shrinking, with mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure starts hitting their lowest points in March since 2007, according to Black Knight Financial Services.
Early figures show purchases in the first quarter by investors with at least 10 rental houses fell 57 percent from a year earlier, according to a presentation by CoreLogic. Blackstone, whose Invitation Homes unit invested more than $8 billion in 43,000 homes, slashed its buying pace by 70 percent from last year's peak, Jonathan Gray, the New York firm's global head of real estate, said in March.
Fewer investors in South Florida are fishing in the shrinking pond of discounted foreclosures and distressed homes, according to Danny Kattan, principal at Property Investment Advisors Group USA, a Miami-based landlord with 600 rental homes and apartment units. He said he buys 10 to 15 homes a month, about half the pace of last year.
"There's no lack of money," he said in a telephone interview. "There's a lack of opportunities."
Miami prices have risen 31 percent from an April 2011 low, the S&P/Case-Shiller index shows. The number of delinquent mortgages in Florida fell 34 percent in the year through March, according to Black Knight.
Arizona Cools
In Arizona, where investors have helped drive a 44 percent increase in home prices in the past two and a half years, "momentum is gone," said Jim Belfiore, president of Belfiore Real Estate Consulting LLC in Phoenix.
"The market has been deteriorating since June of last year," Belfiore said. "It started with the significant interest rate increase and it was at the same time new home prices were going up at 1 percent on a monthly basis. It shocked some buyers and sapped some momentum from the housing market."
Phoenix-area sales fell 26 percent in February from a year earlier and total spending on homes fell 16 percent, according to a report this month by the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Investors bought 20 percent of homes, half their July 2012 peak share of the market, the report showed.
Bay Area
Other areas are being affected by tight supply more than declines in demand. Sales in the San Francisco Bay area fell 13 percent in March from a year earlier as prices climbed 23 percent, according to research firm DataQuick, a unit of CoreLogic. Bay Area cities Oakland, San Jose and San Francisco had the fastest-moving housing markets, with about 70 percent of listings selling within two months, Trulia Inc. said.
A shrinking number of listings slowed sales in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which has one of the strongest U.S. job markets, according to James Gaines, a research economist at Texas A&M University. Sales fell 4 percent in March and 2 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to data Gaines collected for the North Texas Association of Realtors.
The Texas region's new home supply is limited because builders can't hire enough construction workers and haven't developed enough lots to meet demand, Gaines said. Many first-time buyers can't qualify for a new home mortgage, he said, leading builders to focus production on move-up buyers.
Expensive Homes
"There's very little entry-level housing being built," Gaines said in a telephone interview from Waco. "They found that their profit margins and their business model works better if they build more expensive houses."
Denver was the fastest-selling U.S. market in March as homes sold after an average 25 days on the market, down 32 percent from a year earlier, according to Realtor.com, a unit of Move Inc. The number of listings fell 20 percent.
Wendy Nelson spends about 90 minutes a day online looking for a house in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch. She's toured 10 homes since March and made one offer for a house that she lost to a higher bidder.
"It's so frustrating," Nelson, 51, a sales representative for pharmaceutical maker Genentech, said in a telephone interview. "There's not much out there and if there's something you might consider, it's gone in an hour."
Seller's Market
Nelson would like to buy a smaller home with a lower mortgage payment than the 4,600-square-foot (427-square-meter) house she bought in 2010, moving before her daughter goes to college in two years. A lot of what she sees in her price range under $450,000 isn't worth a look beyond the Web. A bank-owned home that she described as "horrific" and "disgusting" had a $439,000 asking price.
"I'm like, 'are you kidding me?'" Nelson said. "Some people are getting a little crazy saying, 'It's a seller's market. We can get what we want.'"
The story is quite different in Arizona. In late 2012, Amber and Ben Hodge, working with Realtor Mike Caruso, quit their search to buy a home in Queen Creek, about 38 miles (61 kilometers) southeast of Phoenix, because competition was so heavy that agents for sellers didn't even bother to call back when they made offers.
This year, homebuilder William Lyon Homes allowed the Hodges to choose from three nearly-finished houses in the layout they wanted and held one of those off the market for 10 days while the family completed the sale of their previous home. The builder agreed to kick in $5,000 toward closing costs.
The Hodges and their two sons plan to move next month into a 2,300 square foot property at The Villas at Hastings Farm, said Amber Hodge, 34, whose husband retired from the Army after being injured in Iraq.
"It's nice being a buyer in this market because there are so many options," she said.
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HILLSDALE � According to Hillsdale Academy girls basketball coach Kevin Reed, a major key to his team's success as been their unselfish play.
The Colts put that on display again and took another step toward a conference championship.
Getting production from everyone in their lineup, the Colts rolled to a 59-10 victory over the Litchfield Terriers in a Southern Central Athletic Association game Thursday evening.
Hillsdale Academy (15-1, 12-0 SCAA) controls its own destiny for the SCAA title with four regular season games remaining.
"After the Hillsdale game, we came in and set new goals, and one is to win out," Reed said. "The girls are bringing a championship effort to practice every night. This was our 13th straight day with a game or practice, and the girls had to make their own intensity tonight."
Litchfield (5-7, 4-7 SCAA) was held to just two field goals on the night. The Colts spotted the Terriers the first point of the game, then scored the game's next 18 points and never looked back. Hillsdale Academy eventually built a 40-point lead by the end of the third quarter, and the fourth was played under a running clock.
Kim Wykes hit a free throw just over a minute into the game, giving the Terriers a 1-0 lead. McKayla Tharp and Olivia Jones answered with consecutive 3-pointers to kick off Hillsdale Academy's run. Forcing turnovers and passing the ball around effectively, the Colts scored 10 more points before the quarter ended, then Elyse Lisznyai hit a layup eight seconds into the second, making it 18-1.
"Elyse pressures the ball like crazy, and tonight she made sure everyone shared the ball," Reed said. "She's developing into a great leader. We've been really unselfish, and it's important for everyone to know they are a part of our success."
Harley Prater knocked down a floating shot a minute later for Litchfield, but the Colts scored the game's next 16 points. A jumper by Victoria Heckenlively started the run, which featured a pair of fast-break layups by Lisznyai and a layup by Jones. Another layup by Christina Craig in the final minute made it 34-3 before Katelyn Wheeler hit a pair of free throws for the Terriers.
"We never got anything going and we've been struggling bad lately," Litchfield coach Bill O'Dell said. "(Hillsdale Academy) played really well against us and took advantage of their opportunities. It's been a struggle for us the last six games, but the girls have never quit. I've been happy with that part, and I hope we keep playing as hard as we can."
After Prater hit two free throws three minutes into the third quarter, Hillsdale Academy put the game away with another surge. Lisznyai and Lyndee Wonders hit a pair of baskets, and a pair of free throws by Michaela Biegner made it 47-7 entering the fourth.
Lisznyai had 17 points and five assists to lead the Colts. Jones and Tharp both scored eight points, while Craig added six points. Maeve Sullivan finished with six points and five rebounds. Both Lyndee and Erin Wonders scored four points, with Lyndee recorded four blocks.
"Maeve was great for us off the bench and Tharp shot well tonight," Reed said. "The fun thing for us is you never know who it's going to be to step up."
Prater had five points to lead Litchfield. Melanie Shoemaker and Wheeler both scored two points.
Hillsdale Academy will host Camden-Frontier on Monday, while the Terriers will visit Will Carleton Academy on Tuesday.
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DURHAM — A political activist and a historic preservationist are this year's recipients of the University of New Hampshire's Granite State Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the state.
Maxine Morse, former chairwoman of the New Hampshire Commission on Laws Affecting Mental Health, and Valerie Cunningham, who is credited with being the inspiration behind the creation of Portsmouth's Black Heritage Trail, will receive the awards during UNH's 142nd commencement Saturday, May 19.
Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, Holocaust survivor and artist Samuel Bak, and commencement speaker Ronald Noble, head of the international policing organization INTERPOL, will receive honorary degrees.
Morse and the commission worked tirelessly on legislative efforts to help the mentally ill and those with other disabilities, seeing 15 proposals enacted into law. Among them was the abolishment of the law that permitted the state to involuntarily sterilize residents at county and state facilities. Under Morse's leadership, the commission was instrumental in reforming state law that had placed the burden of proof on rape victims. Before the statute change, a woman who was raped could be required to testify in court about her prior sexual experience.
Morse has served on numerous boards such as the Greater Manchester Mental Health Center, Odyssey House, New Horizons, the New Hampshire Social Welfare Council, the Lakes Region Mental Health Center, and the Friends of New Hampshire Music Festival. She is involved in several cultural and political initiatives, including Portsmouth's Music Hall and Canterbury Shaker Village and is an avid fan of UNH men's and women's hockey, and a supporter of the UNH departments of theater and dance and music.
Cunningham is a past recipient of the Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Social Justice Award. In 2008 she was named a Restore America Hero by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and HGTV Restore America. In 2005, she was appointed by Gov. John Lynch to serve on the N.H. Commission on the Status of Women.
She is the founding member of several civic organizations, including the Seacoast African American Cultural Center, the Blues Bank Collective, the New Hampshire Circle of Friends, and the Portsmouth-Greater Accra Sister City Connection. From 2001 to 2004 she was curator of the New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz, housed in Special Collections at the UNH Dimond Library. She served as an administrative assistant and office manager at the UNH Counseling Center from 1985 to 1987.
Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members. He is best known for his work on the economic and political cases of famines, and for his contributions to the problems of evaluation and measurement of poverty, inequality, unemployment, and human development.
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, Sen is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He is a former president of the American Economic Association, the International Economic Association, and the Econometric Society. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. His most recent book is "The Idea of Justice."
Bak had his first art exhibit in the Vilna Ghetto (then part of Nazi-occupied Poland, now the capital of Lithuania) in 1942 when he was 9 years old. He and his mother were the only family members to survive the war. He has established himself as one of the most important artists to address the subject of the Holocaust.
Bak's work has been shown in museums and galleries across Europe, the United States, and Israel. The Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer has argued that Bak ranks with Felix Nussbaum as among the most important Holocaust artists. Yad Vashem, the memorial site in Jerusalem, staged a major retrospective of Bak's work in its museum.
Recently a collection of Bak's work was donated to Facing History and Ourselves, a Boston-based organization dedicated to providing educational materials regarding the Holocaust, intolerance, and genocide. These paintings now constitute a traveling exhibition.
Noble '79 is a tenured professor at the New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving at the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL). Under his leadership, INTERPOL developed the first global communications network allowing all 190 INTERPOL member countries to communicate in real-time and to access INTERPOL'S police tools and services.
Recognizing a critical gap in border security efforts, Noble spearheaded the creation of the only global database of stolen and lost travel documents and the technical tools that put this vital resource directly into the hands of frontline officers at key locations, including border control points.
UNH announces 2012 Granite State Award and honorary degree recipients
DURHAM — A political activist and a historic preservationist are this year's recipients of the University of New Hampshire's Granite State Award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the state.


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Question: Why can't I see graphics on
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Microsoft's Windows XP and Outlook Express.
Answer: Microsoft Corp. developed and released software called Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP users in the fall of 2004. Its purpose was to "patch holes" in some of Microsoft's software programs to help reduce the threat of e-mail viruses, e-mail worms, and hacker attacks. SP2 most specifically eliminated many of the vulnerabilities within its Internet Explorer browser and Outlook Express software programs. Most Windows XP users have since downloaded SP2.
One of SP2's protective measures for Outlook Express is to block images from being displayed within incoming e-mail messages as a default setting. Microsoft had discovered that some virus/worm threats arose from malicious code within the graphics of e-mail messages. Microsoft's solution was to prevent users from seeing any graphics within e-mail messages. This is probably the reason you are no longer able to see graphics within your e-mail messages.
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Sites To Check Out This Month
Learn How To Ballroom
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http://ballroomdancers.com - The popular television show Dancing With The Stars has created a renewed interest in ballroom dancing. If you've never tried it before or are in need of a refresher course, check out this site. It gives you a handy glossary of terms plus tutorials on doing the Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, Rumba, Cha Cha, East Coast Swing, and more. The site also has great music to listen to while you practice. Have fun!
Pictures Of Men Wearing Socks With Sandals
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Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown Released Later This Month
http://www.iceagemovie.com/ - The sub-zero heroes from the hit CGI film, Ice Age, are back. Manny the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, and Scrat the hapless squirrel return. Voiceovers include Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Dennis Leary, and Queen Latifah. For a sneak preview, head to this site. Ice Age 2 - The Meltdown is rated G for general audiences.
You Share A Birthday With Famous People
http://worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/birthdays.html - Have you ever wondered what famous people share your birthday? You can find out by heading to this site and selecting the month and date of your birthday. A listing of famous people born on your birthday will appear. For instance, if your birthday is on March 26th, you share birthdays with Tennessee Williams, James Caan, Diana Ross, Marcus Allen, and Martin Short.
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If you've ever tried to
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cut off or pages have been split vertically down the middle. By default, some
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In a matinee on Hockey Night in Canada, the Winnipeg Jets jumped out (as usual) to an early lead at home, and withstood a couple of late technical glitches, including one by CBC, hanging on for a 6-4 win over the Flyers. They now have a 2-0 record over Philadelphia, with a goals for/against record of 15-12. They've run their win streak to three, out-scoring their opponents 15-7 in that span.
-Remember the last time these two teams met? (Yes) But other than us remembering that the Jets had a 9-8 win on a late goal, how many of us remember that Winnipeg had a 5-1 lead early on? The same sort of thing happened here, and, right at the end of the second period, the score could have been 5-3 on a Harry Zoliniercyzk (I just wanted to write that name at least once) shot that beat Ondrej Pavelec but crossed the line a split-second late. Matt Read scored a pair in the third despite the Jets killing a couple of penalties, but, man, that game seemed a bit closer than it had to be.
-Ondrej Pavelec had three consecutive quality starts (games with a .913 save percentage or better, or 2 goals or fewer with a save percentage of .885 or better) coming into this one, a trend that definitely reversed against Philly. Most of his success has come on the back of his penalty kill play, which, while entertaining, was pretty unsustainable. He allowed two powerplay goals and otherwise stopped 27 of 31 shots, but I thought he made a number of mistakes, letting out rebounds, and generally looking pretty nervous. He certainly wasn't as bad as Sergei Bobrovsky.
-Those two Bryan Little goals in the first period are exactly why we track shooting percentage. Little couldn't have had an easier tap in after Dustin Byfuglien set him up with a great shot off of Bobrovsky's pad to force the rebound. His second goal was a total fluke, going right through Bobrovsky's chicken wing on a very weak wrist shot. Those are the lucky bounces you get when your shooting percentage is a bit higher. Not to say that Little didn't have a good game, or deserve those goals, but the bounces went in his favour today, like they hadn't before, and his shot percentage went from 5.4% to 10%, just like that.
-Byfuglien, despite his powerplay presence and three points, had one of his weaker games as a Jet. He had just three shots and six attempts, but was a minus-12 Corsi rating, meaning that 12 more pucks were directed at Pavelec than Bobrovsky when Big Buff was on the ice. He wasn't facing explicitly tough competition (Mostly Zolniercyzk or Wayne Simmonds) and had a lot of starts in the offensive zone, so he wasn't at all playing good defense, as usual. What changed is that at even strength he was pretty awful offensively, with the Jets taking a single shot when he was on the ice. That's rare.
-Johnny Oduya and Zach Bogosian both had strong games, however. They really kept the play moving in the right direction and saw the most time against Philly's top line. It's nice to see that after Oduya's early season struggles. Bogosian also contributed quite well offensively, with a pair of shots in five attempts. I wonder if maybe he'll earn himself a couple of goals over the next month or so, because his play has picked up, and, as we saw with Little, the more you play in the offensive zone, the more likely you are to get a positive bounce.
-Evander Kane had a wild afternoon. An assist, seven shots on net and three minor penalties. That's some sort of hat-trick in a weird way. I liked his effort in the last few games but he took it a little far today. Jim Slater, on the other hand, played a very good defensive game as he has been throughout the year, checking Philly's top line, and capitalizing on a Chris Pronger turnover for the shorthanded marker that would have stood up as the game-winner in some other universe.