February's top performers

	NAME	GP	G	A	PTS
1	Malkin, Pit.	14	9	17	26
2	Kovalev, Mtl.	14	7	14	21
3	Vanek, Buf.	15	13	7	20
4	Roy, Buf.	15	6	12	18
5	Ribeiro, Dal.	14	4	14	18
6	Frolov, L.A.	12	7	10	17
7	Pominville, Buf.	15	7	10	17
8	Sykora, Pit.	14	5	11	16
9	Arnott, Nsh.	12	6	9	15
10	Morrow, Dal.	14	6	9	15
11	Spezza, Ott.	13	6	9	15
12	Elias, N.J.	15	3	12	15

Malkin continues to rise in Pittsburgh, and the Hart Trophy buzz is starting to grow. He's going to cost the Penguins a pretty penny here in the near future, too.

The boys in Buffalo have really picked things up as well.

	NAME	GP	+/-
1	Elias, N.J.	15	13
2	Martin, N.J.	15	12
3	Eriksson, Dal.	14	11
4	Oduya, N.J.	15	11
5	Ladd, Car.-Chi.	13	10
6	Parise, N.J.	15	10
7	Morrow, Dal.	14	9
8	Ribeiro, Dal.	14	9
9	Seabrook, Chi.	13	9
10	Avery, NYR	12	8
11	Frolov, L.A.	12	8
12	Gomez, NYR	12	8
13	Keith, Chi.	13	8
14	Meyer, Pho.-NYI	13	8

Quite a few career years in this list, with Martin being the main one. Morrow's also had a terrific season in Dallas, and is one of the league's scoring leaders, while Frolov has really played well in Los Angeles the past month or so.

Ditto for Seabrook and Keith, the two youngsters on the 'Hawks blueline.

	NAME	SV%	GA	SOG	GP	MIN	W	L
1	Khabibulin, Chi.	95.8	7	165	5	310	3	0
2	Giguere, Ana.	94.9	13	253	10	608	8	1
3	Bryzgalov, Ana.-Pho.	93.5	23	355	11	616	4	4
4	Turco, Dal.	92.6	21	282	11	662	9	2
5	Brodeur, N.J.	92.5	32	428	15	917	9	3
6	Smith, Dal.-T.B.	92.5	10	133	5	300	4	1
7	Price, Mtl.	92.5	19	252	9	490	5	2
8	Conklin, Pit.	92.4	26	344	11	631	6	2
9	Kolzig, Was.	92.2	19	244	8	489	4	2
10	Budaj, Colo	92.0	11	138	5	285	1	1

Giguere, Turco and Brodeur are familiar names at the top of this list, but look at the numbers for Bryzgalov, despite the fact he was only 4-4 in February.

Can't ask for better goaltending than that.

And you wonder how Smith will fare in what can be charitably called a "more open" defensive system than he enjoyed in Dallas.
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