Crosby gets a chance to chase gold

Team Canada alternate captain Sidney Crosby has dreamed about playing in a gold-medal game most of his life. Friday night, that dream came true as his Canadians held off a spirited late charge to defeat a Slovakian. With the 3-2 win at Canada Hockey Place, Team Canada booked passage into a dream gold-medal game against Team USA, which is 5-0 in this tournament after a 6-1 pasting of Finland earlier in the day in the other semifinal. Crosby, who had three shots and an even rating Friday night, stopped to talk exclusively to NHL.com after the game.

Morrow finds his role in Team Canada

Team Canada forward Brenden Morrow is one of the foot soldiers that makes any team work. The Dallas Stars winger showed his value to Team Canada on Friday night, scoring the team's second goal in an 3-2 win against Slovakia the Olympic tournament semifinal.

Morrow was also on the ice for the winning goal, by Ryan Getzlaf on a second-period power play. Morrow now has goals in back-to-back games as he and his teammates prepare to play Team USA in Sunday's gold-medal game here at Canada Hockey Place. On Friday night, he played 11:39, managing the goal, two shots and an even rating. Let us put on team usa jerseys and support them!

Maltby's season ends due to the surgery

According to mlive.com, Detroit Red Wings veteran Kirk Maltby will undergo a shoulder surgery next week. As a result, Maltby will be placed on long-term injured serve, solving the Wings' salary-cap problems and also enable defenseman Andreas Lilja to be activated. Lilja said he expects to be in the lineup Monday at Colorado, in the first game following the Olympic break. It seems that Maltby has to take off his red wings jersey and take a rest.

Flyers shut down goaltender Emery

Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren announced that goaltender Ray Emery, who has been out with tightness in his hip on Feb. 1, will be kept off of the ice for the next three weeks in the hopes he will recover shortly after the upcoming Olympic break. "Based on what the doctors have told us, we're just going to shut Ray down here for three weeks and give him some time to rehabilitate the hip, and then we'll go from there," Holmgren said Thursday from the Flyers' practice facility. "The idea of taking these three weeks to strengthen that [hip] area and the muscles around that area, we're hoping will be the right way to go."

"It is 16 days where we are not playing games," said Holmgren. "I feel good about what we are doing with Ray. Based on the information we have right now, I think it is the right way to go for both the Flyers and for Ray." It seems that he will take off his flyers jersey and rest for a while.

Rangers add Shelley from Sharks

The New York Rangers added a different physical element to their lineup, acquiring forward Jody Shelley from the San Jose Sharks for a 2011 draft pick. Shelley had 3 assists 78 penalty minutes in 36 games in the san jose sharks jersey. In nine NHL seasons with Columbus and San Jose, he has 43 points and 1,310 penalty minutes. Brashear, who signed a two-year contract over the summer, had been a healthy scratch in seven-straight games. In 36 games he had 1 assist and 73 penalty minutes.

Shelley will be a free agent on July 1. If the Rangers don't re-sign him, they will give the Sharks their 2011 sixth-round pick. If Shelley stays with the Rangers, they will have to give the Sharks their 2011 fifth-round pick. "Jody Shelley has been a tremendous competitor and teammate for this organization for the past three seasons," said Sharks GM Doug Wilson. "He strived to make a difference on and off the ice in San Jose and he was a leader in both areas."

Mike Green is suspended for several games

The NHL announced that Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Green has been suspended for three games without pay, for an incident that took place during NHL game against the Florida Panthers on January 29. At the first period, Green delivered an elbow to the head of Panthers’ forward Michael Frolik. Green was assessed a minor penalty for elbowing on the play.

Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and based on his average salary, Green will forfeit $81,606.21. The money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund. Green will miss Washington's next three games, against Tampa Bay at Boston and at the New York Rangers. He will be eligible to return to the game against Atlanta in his capitals jersey.

Phillies' Colvin is arrested

It is reported that Phillies' prospect Brody Colvin was arrested on three misdemeanor charges in his hometown on Saturday night.According to a spokesman for the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office, Colvin was charged with disturbing the peace, simple battery and resisting an officer in Jefferson Street at 2:20 a.m. ET Sunday morning. Colvin was released without bail on Sunday and is scheduled to appear in Lafayette City Court on the morning of April 1.

Colvin made one appearance for the Phillies' Gulf Coast League team last summer and was then sent to the Instructional League.