Well here is a brief recap of what I heard this morning on Coach
Walsh's weekly talk with Dale Duff on WZON.

1) Niko will play this weekend on the Hiesten and Kerluke line(watch
out Lowell this line can pack a punch)

2) He LOVES Donovan on the first line with Kariya and Trattnig, and
thinks its quite impressive that he can play on that first line and
make a difference.  He sounded quite giddy about the future in that
respect.

3) He mentioned that Loya was suspended for two games from the team for
a violation of 'motor vehicle infractions'  and pretty much left it at
that.  With Loya out Turgeon will get back in the line-up and at the
same time he said that he was impressed with Nault's play of late and
that he too would stay in the line-up.

4) He was really excited about Don Richardson, saying he was similar to
Gionta without quite the same finishing ability and said he was a
FASTER Cal Ingraham.  So that should be exciting to see.

5) He mentioned that this will be a somewhat tough stretch that they
were entering with 4 road games in 8 days (Lowell Fri, Cornell Tues,
Brown Fri, Dartmouth Sat).  He brought up the fact that we "owed" these
teams some games since they had all recently visited Alfond and we
hadn't been out there recently.

6) He brought up the fact that Hockey East teams aren't getting it done
in road league games this year with only BU getting a tie, Maine
getting a tie and BC a win (at Lowell), those were the only road points
registered so far in this first month of HE play.  So he said that was
motivation for the team and him.

7) Dale asked about his health and Coach said that he has a meeting
within a week with doctors to see how everything is going, but said
that if his energy level (real high) and his appetite(again real good)
were any indication then he is going to get good news.

So here is a wrap up of the latest "news" that you might have missed if
you weren't listening this morning to the SportsZone.  I assume that
most weren't and this is the stuff that people kind of look for in this
forum.

-Jake