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Dwayne Roloson named NHL’s number one star of the week

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This week’s edition of the NHL three stars of the week features a pair of names we haven’t seen come through much and one name we’ve seen virtually every week.

Islanders goaltender Dwayne Roloson walked away with this week’s top honors after going 3-0-0 with a 0.98 goals against average and a .972 save percentage in helping the Isles to go 4-0-1 over their last five games and getting the team out of last place overall in the NHL. Roloson’s outstanding play comes at a time when the Isles were showing little to no hope of doing something positive and now suddenly find themselves out of the basement being supplanted there by the Devils.

Roloson, who is 41 years-old, has had his name thrown around in trade rumors to help out a contending team in need of solid goaltending thanks to his play has been one of the few steady players in Long Island this season. Even though his overall record this year looks crummy (5-12-1) his save percentage (.920) and goal against average (2.38) say he’s been the reason the Isles have had any success at all. If Roloson is a candidate to be moved, you could see him earning a lot of interest elsewhere.

Detroit’s Henrik Zetterberg took home the week’s number two star of the week after stepping up his play in the absence of Pavel Datsyuk. Zetterberg tallied three goals and four assists in helping the Red Wings win all three of their games in the past week. Zetterberg’s always consistent level of play will come under closer scrutiny now with Datsyuk out with a broken hand but for now, he’s the man leading the team in scoring with 13 goals and 27 assists over 35 games.

Unsurprisingly, Sidney Crosby earns the the league’s third star of the week. Crosby’s been a point producing machine all year in helping the Penguins to be one of the top teams in the league and over the past week he’s been no different. Sid the Kid had four goals and three assists in leading the Pens to a 3-1-0 record over the last week and extended his consecutive games with a point streak to 24 over that time. All Sid has done this year is lead the NHL in goals scored (30) and points (61) so far this year. Ho hum, another great season for one of the league’s top players.