Throughout the Stanley Cup Playoffs, NHL on TSN analyst and former NHL goaltender Jamie McLennan ranks the netminders after each game night. Number values assigned are out of five with five being the best performance. Henrik Lundqvist - 4 - A strong game. He was focused early on and had to fight traffic and pressure all game long. The Horton goal was a tough break where the puck bounced back to him. On the Krug goal, Boyle was in his lane screening him, and the Seguin goal he made a great original save. Loved the way he was working to push rebounds past oncoming traffic. It was noticeable in this game. Tuukka Rask - 2 - A tough game. He fell on the Hagelin goal, was slow on his exchange with Chara on the Stepan goal. He has set the bar very high for himself playing so well in the playoffs, just not a very sharp game for him. The game winner was a nice redirection in front, not much chance as he scrambled to find it on the seam play. Noticed the rangers are really targeting his blocker side. Jimmy Howard - 5 – He was brilliant and aggressive all game long. His glove was locked in and tracked the puck really well. Big save on the sharp breakaway was about the positioning – Howard had taken ice and not given the shooter anything. On the big save on Bolland, it was more of a Jonathan Quick lunge across and forward that he came up with, took the angle up approach on the puck, and it came back on the ice to the right pad. Good read. Corey Crawford - 4 - Played well. He didnt have much of a chance on the Kindl goal, as he was screened well by Abdelkader. One thing he was very strong at on Thursday was his rebound control, really took ice, planted his feet and let the puck come to him. Jonathan Quick - 5 – A money goalie on Thursday. He was not bombarded with shots, but the Sharks had some Grade-A chances and he had the answer. 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Brett Bulmer of the Kelowna Rockets, Jerome Gauthier-Leduc of the Rimouski Oceanic and Mark McNeill of the Prince Albert Raiders had assists. www.cheapjerseyspl.us.com . Schalke general manager Horst Heldt said Thursday that he made an offer to extend Rauls contract, which expires at the end of the season, in an email to the Spaniards representative, Gines Carvajal.Ryder Hesjedal starts the Giro dItalia with high hopes Saturday and with Team Garmin-Barracudas considerable resources behind him. The 31-year-old from Victoria is Garmins chosen candidate for the prestigious general classification competition. Simply put, his fellow Garmin riders will be working to put him atop the podium when the race ends May 27. Hesjedal believes the gruelling Giro is well suited to his talents -- and durability. "The third week is definitely where theres the most to gain and lose, especially in the overall classifications," he told The Canadian Press from Denmark, where the race starts with an individual time trial. "This race is definitely packed well in the last week, especially after the first half. Im hoping my characteristics will come through and Ill be at my strongest in the last week." The 3,503.9-kilometre race ends with a team time trial in Milan. Hesjedal is part of a global field that features 198 riders from 22 different countries, according to organizers. There is other Canadian content in the storied race. The new Australian Greenedge team features Christian Meier of Sussex, N.B., and Svein Tuft of White Rock, B.C. And Dominique Rollin of Boucherville, Que., is part of the French FDJ-Big Mat team. Torontos Michael Barry is recovering from elbow surgery and expects to return to action for Team Sky at the Tour of Norway in mid-May. The Giro is the first of the three elite Grand Tour stage cycling races on the calendar followed by the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana. This is the third Giro for Hesjedal, who has risen up the ranks in recent years due to his gritty performances in the Tour de France. "In a lot of ways it can be harder than the Tour," said Hesjedal. "Its earlier in the year. The weather can be worse. "The historys just as rich. All the great champions have won the Tour and the Giro, and use the Giro as an important part of their season. I think Italians would say the Giros bigger and better than the Tour, but for me its a hard race ... Its just as hard (as the Tour), thats for sure." His breakthrough year was 2010 when he finished seventh at the Tour de France, taking over Garmins lead role after injuries derailed some of his teammates chances. Last year, his Tour charge was slowed by a painful crash on Stage 7. Hesjedal paced the peleton for long stretches as he secured position for other members of the then Garmin-Cervelo team, which finished first in the team standinggs.ddddddddddddThe Canadian finished 18th overall. Hesjedal, a former mountain biker, made his Giro debut in 2005. It marked his first Grand Tour in his first year of only racing on the road. "It was all big and new and I had done a very hard spring leading up to that," he recalled. "Unfortunately I crashed pretty badly on the fifth stage -- still pretty early. So I had a pretty tough go at it. All I remember is suffering every day and I only made it until the end of the second week." Italys Paolo Savoldelli, a teammate on his Discovery Channel team, went on to win the race. In 2008, it was the first race for his current team with American Christian Vande Velde emerging with the pink jersey after they won the opening individual time trial. "It was a very hard Giro to finish," Hesjedal said of 2008. "I got through it and that set me up to do my first Tour de France later that summer. So the Giros been pretty instrumental in points of my career." Hesjedals Garmin team has its sights set on other prizes at this years race. American Tyler Farrar, for example, will be challenging for the sprint title. The Canadian prepared for the Giro at the Tour de Romandie, pulling out on the second-to-last stage to get an extra recovery day in advance of this race. Hesjedal is not thinking of the Tour de France, saying the Giro "is the big objective right now." "If the Giro goes good, that is just perfect for the Tour," he said. "With Christian Vande Velde definitely focusing on the Tour, so if anything Ill be going to the Tour to support him like hes going to support me here. "And you never know how the race unfolds. I mean I never went to the 2010 Tour looking to ride the classification either. You just dont know, but Ill be there. If its not supporting someone else, Ill have my opportunities to go hunting for some stages and that sort of thing. "Whatever the goals of the team are, thats all we focus on." Its a big summer for the Canadian, who hopes to go straight from the Tour de France to the Olympic road race in London. The Canadian Cycling Association will announce its team later this summer, with Hesjedal the leading candidate to fill Canadas one spot in the road race. "I want to go, I want to represent Canada. I know I can be in a good place after the Tour of the season goes as its supposed to." Hesjedal raced in both the road race and time trial at the 2008 Beijing Games. cheap jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '