He rested his star trio three times together last year during the lockout shortened season, including a skipped trip to Utah (the Spurs led that Utah game until the fourth quarter as well before losing).
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Though the Rangers came within two victories of reaching the Stanley Cup finals last year, Sather made significant changes to the roster both before and during the 2013 regular season (which a lockout shortened to 48 games).
The NBA packed a 66-game schedule into a lockout-shortened season that began on Christmas.
The lockout-shortened Knicks fell at home to the Raptors on Monday and the Bobcats on Wednesday.
It was the Devils' third win over Philadelphia in three games in the lockout-shortened season.
His performance couldn't get the Rangers back to the third round after the lockout-shortened, 48-game regular season.
New York reached the Eastern Conference finals last year and was considered a championship contender in this lockout-shortened season.
There is a chance he could top that in a lockout-shortened, 48-game sprint.
Thanks to the lockout that shortened the regular season, scheduling of the first round of the playoffs is a seriously cramped affair.
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This is a team suddenly in transition after a tumultuous lockout-shortened season.
Crawford was one of the top goalies in the NHL during the lockout-shortened regular season, and he has carried that into the playoffs.
The largest crowd in Honda Center history was packed with boisterous fans of both teams for a prominent game in this lockout-shortened year.
The harder work begins Saturday, when 13 games kick off a lockout-shortened season where each team has a 48-game sprint before the playoffs.
Members of the Professional Hockey Writers Association vote on the award, and in this lockout-shortened regular season, each team has played a 48-game intra-conference schedule.
That is because the lockout-shortened 66-game schedule has teams playing about four games per week instead of three, which has slightly increased the injury rate.
In this lockout-shortened season, where slow starts can prove costly, all three are in a rush to recapture what made them so special last May.
That is how tight the NHL is in this lockout-shortened season.
While they won this one, they need to win their final four game in this lockout-shortened season to have any chance of getting to the postseason.
Despite Pegula's deep pockets, Black explained that the decision was made as part of the franchise's league-wide obligation to raise revenue coming out of a lockout-shortened season.
Ilya Kovalchuk scored 4:39 into the extra session, and the Devils won their third straight game to start the lockout-shortened season, 3-2 over the winless Washington Capitals on Friday night.
The Ducks have been transformed ever since Boudreau took over in the final weeks of 2011, returning to respectability last season before roaring to a 22-3-4 start to this lockout-shortened campaign.
And they did it without giving up a single player on a roster that had put together the NHL's second-best record with a month to go in the lockout-shortened regular season.
Toronto has 10 games remaining in the lockout-shortened season.
Denver won 38 games in the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season.
The NHL trade deadline is 3 p.m. on Wednesday, forcing a flurry of activity among the glut of teams that believe they're in the Cup mix thanks in part to a lockout-shortened season.
However, his later move to Denver Nuggets was not a success -- partly due to a back injury, and partly due to a league lockout that shortened the 2011-12 season to 31 matches.
The Islanders (24-17-7) made the most of the lockout-shortened, 48-game season and grabbed the final playoff spot in the East but they were only two points behind fifth-place Toronto in the postseason chase.
By scoring 22 times in the last 21 regular-season games, Ovechkin ended up leading the league with 32 goals in a lockout-shortened schedule his third Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy, but first since 2009.
The Knicks are not expected to give much of a challenge to the Heat, a still-imperfect club that was tormented by last season's Finals failure and is eager for revenge in this lockout-shortened year.
Hamilton, who made the team out of training camp and played 42 games in the lockout-shortened season, said it helps to know that he won't be yanked out of the lineup with one bad shift.
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