Washington’s supporting cast is pitching in, Boston getting what they’ve come to expect from Bergeron, the Flames get a valuable performer back from injury, Fantasy tips and more in Scott Cullen’s Statistically Speaking. Fake Celtics Jerseys . HEROES Eric Fehr – The Capitals centre produced two goals and an assist in a 6-2 win at Toronto, giving him eight points (6 G, 2 A) in the past five games. Playing 14:37 per game (just down from last year’s career-high 14:45 per game), Fehr is scoring goals at a career-best rate (0.36 per game), thanks to his career-best 17.1% shooting percentage. As noted a couple of days ago, Fehr is among the players with the best ratio of scoring chance percentage to shot attempt percentage, so he may have some shot quality working in his favour right now. Patrice Bergeron – Boston’s play-driving centre scored a pair of goals, including the overtime winner (with what may well have been a high stick), in a 3-2 win at Pittsburgh. He has eight points (4 G, 4 A) in the past seven games to get his point production up to typical levels – over 0.70 points per game for the sixth consecutive season. He remains a dominant possession player. RELATIVE CORSI LEADERS - FORWARDS (min. 300 5-on-5 minutes) PLAYER TEAM POS. CORSI% RELATIVE CORSI% Jakub Voracek Philadelphia RW 55.8% +11.3% Patrice Bergeron Boston C 58.9% +10.9% Sean Bergenheim Florida LW 59.0% +9.5% Joe Thornton San Jose C 58.9% +9.4% Michael Raffl Philadelphia LW 56.8% +8.3% Colin Wilson Nashville LW 58.0% +7.8% Matt Nieto San Jose LW 58.2% +7.7% Nazem Kadri Toronto C 50.0% +7.3% Gabriel Landeskog Colorado LW 50.0% +7.1% Mark Stone Ottawa RW 53.5% +7.0% Mikael Backlund – Playing in his first game since late October, the Flames centre had a goal and an assist in a 3-2 loss to Detroit. He has just six points (2 G, 4 A) in 12 games this season and 107 points in 258 career games, but Backlund has been a strong puck possession player for virtually his entire time in the NHL. ZEROES Jonathan Bernier – The Maple Leafs goaltender, who has been one of their most valuable players, allowed five goals on 25 shots in a 6-2 loss to Washington, dropping his save percentage to .892 over the past five games, and .916 for the season. Loui Eriksson – Despite starting all of his shifts in the offensive zone, the Bruins’ winger was on the wrong end (4 shot attempts for, 14 against, 22.2%) of the possession game at Pittsburgh. LINEUP NEED TO KNOW Morgan Rielly – Toronto’s second-year defenceman played a career-high 23:31 against Washington. Johan Franzen – Detroit’s winger missed Wednesday’s win over Calgary with an upper-body injury. With Tomas Jurco also sidelined, Dan Cleary and Joakim Andersson had spots in the Detroit lineup. Paul Martin – The Pittsburgh defenceman returned to the lineup for the first time in nearly three weeks and played more than 20 minutes against Boston. Karri Ramo – Calgary’s goaltender left Wednesday’s loss to Detroit early after a collision with teammate Raphael Diaz. Sam Carrick – Recalled to the Maple Leafs lineup, the rookie forward played all of 2:53 against Washington. SHORT SHIFTS Capitals D John Carlson recorded two assists in a 6-2 win at Toronto, and has 18 points (2 G, 16 A) in the past 18 games…Capitals LW Marcus Johansson scored a pair of goals in the win, and has six points (3 G, 3 A) in the past six games…Red Wings LW Justin Abdelkader had a goal and an assist in a 3-2 win at Calgary, giving him eight points (4 G, 4 A) in the past seven games…On a day in which he was fined $2,000 for diving, Red Wings RW Gustav Nyquist had a couple of assists at Calgary; he has nine points (1 G, 8 A) in the past seven games…Red Wings C Henrik Zetterberg had a goal and an assist at Calgary, and has 10 points (5 G, 5 A) in the past nine games…Rangers LW J.T. Miller had a pair of assists in a 4-1 win at Anaheim; he has four points (1 G, 3 A) in the past four games…Penguins C Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist, with 12 shot attempts (6 SOG) in Pittsburgh’s 3-2 overtime loss to Boston… Bruins G Tuukka Rask stopped 37 of 39 shots in a 3-2 overtime win at Pittsburgh...Penguins LW Nick Spaling had strong possession stats (18 shot attempts for, 6 against, 75.0%) against Boston…Detroit’s line of Pavel Datsyuk, Darren Helm and Tomas Tatar controlled played at Calgary, with Datsyuk (21 for, 5 against, 80.8%) leading the way. FANTASY FOCUS It’s a busy night, with 10 games on the schedule, so here are some players to consider inserting into your lineup: Travis Zajac – The Devils centre has gone through some long dry spells, but has five points (2 G, 3 A) in the past five games and New Jersey has been getting healthier up front. Melker Karlsson – The Sharks rookie winger doesn’t have a great scorer’s pedigree, but has three goals in the past three games and skating on a line with Logan Couture and Joe Pavelski is a good opportunity. Ryan Ellis – Five points (2 G, 3 A) in the past three games for the Nashville blueliner, who is averaging a carrer-high 19:50 time on ice per game. J.T. Miller – The Rangers forward is battling for ice time, but has four points (1 G, 3 A) in the past four games to make his case. Much of the data included comes from www.war-on-ice.com, www.puckalytics.com, www.hockeystats.ca and www.naturalstattrick.com Scott Cullen can be reached at scott.cullen@bellmedia.ca Custom Boston Celtics Jerseys . -- The Chicago Bears say they have agreed to a one-year contract with centre Roberto Garza. Celtics Jerseys 2020 . Louis Blues were workmanlike, methodical and -- most of all -- effective on Monday night. https://www.cheapceltics.com/ . Rasmussen didnt have a decision during his four appearances in May, when he gave up two hits and no runs in two innings. Toronto used five relievers while pulling off the second-biggest comeback in franchise history on Friday night, rallying from an 8-0 deficit to a 14-9 win.The Toronto Maple Leafs were dominant as recently as two weeks ago, but offensive issues are partly why theyve cooled off considerably. Having Phil Kessel face the Winnipeg Jets could get the offense going again. Kessel looks to extend the NHLs longest goal streak against an opponent in almost 21 years as the visiting Maple Leafs face the Jets on tonight. Toronto (21-15-3) leads the league with 3.23 goals per game, and averaged 4.08 during a 10-1-1 stretch that was capped with a 6-2 win over Anaheim on Dec. 16. The Maple Leafs have totaled 19 goals in eight games since, including seven in the two victories over that stretch. Those issues continued in Fridays 3-1 loss at Minnesota as they dropped to 2-4 on a season-high seven-game road trip. We played a pretty solid game on the road, said Jonathan Bernier, who had 26 saves. We didnt find a way to score more goals and that was the bottom line. Kessel leads Toronto with 18 goals, but has managed only one in eight games after scoring six in the previous eight. He hasnt had any problems producing against the Winnipeg/Atlanta franchise, scoring in 10 straight meetings and totaling 11 during that stretch. Its the longest streak against an opponent since Brett Hull had goals in 13 consecutive meetings with the New York Islanders from Jan. 30, 1990-March 12, 1994. Kessel scored with 1:33 left in regulation at MTS Centre on Jan. 25, but the Leafs fell 5-4 in overtime to lose for the fifth time in six visits. Cheap Celtics Jerseys. Theyve dropped four in a row overall in the series. The Jets (19-12-7) lost their second straight overall and third in a row at home, 5-2 to the Islanders on Wednesday. Theyve allowed 12 goals during that three-game skid after matching that total in the previous five games on home ice. Winnipeg is expecting a similar challenge against the Maple Leafs, despite their recent offensive woes. A team that skates and generates an awful lot off the rush and a real good power play, coach Paul Maurice said. Puck skills off transition into motion, so they can make the plays that snap it around. If you can get to them to take away that ice, you got a whole lot better chance. You just cant give them that room, so we gotta play that game. Andrew Ladd has eight points in the past five meetings with the Maple Leafs, collecting two assists in each of the last three. The captain enters this matchup with six points in four games after failing to get any over the previous four. His two goals against the Islanders gave him 14 and tied him with Bryan Little for the team lead. He moved past Blake Wheeler for the scoring lead with 29 points. After Ondrej Pavelec started against the Islanders, Michael Hutchinson could be back in net Saturday. The undrafted Hutchinson leads the NHL with a 1.87 goals-against average and a .937 save percentage. ' ' '