THE GOALIE EDGE: 11/29/2013 primepucks.com Fri 11/29/13 11:33 AM

ALL GOALIES CONFIRMED UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED AT TIME OF PRINT An early bird special this day after Thanksgiving as the Philadelphia Flyers are hosting the Winnipeg Jets. Steve Mason gets the nod against Ondrej Pavelec. Mason is having the better year out of the two statistically speaking and being on home ice should be enough advantage as the Flyers try to get back on the winning track....Then we have a matinee special as well with the New York Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist visit the Boston Bruins. Both goalies have something to prove in this one with the "King" trying to add to last game's win against Florida and Tuukka Rask trying to shake his lackluster effort against the Detroit Red Wings.  This one just may last long into a shootout..."Hockey all day" continues as the Tampa Bay Lightning and Ben Bishop (LIKELY) will face the surging Pittsburgh Penguins at 4:00 pm (ET). Marc-Andre Fleury (LIKELY) will be in net for the Pens as he has been getting plenty of support lately with the return of James Neal to the lineup. Bishop has a nicked-up hand, so the Penguins may try to take advantage of that.  It was a wild one last time these two teams met, ending in a 5-4 Pens' victory. This will be a good test for the Bolt....The second of four 4:00 pm games pits the New York Islanders and Kevin Poulin against the visiting Detroit Red Wings who are coming off a thrashing of the Boston Bruins. I sense a letdown for the Wings in this one as Jimmy Howard has lost 7 in a row. Howard is struggling a bit this year and while Poulin hasn't stepped it up ever since Nabokov went down with an injury, the Isles are in desperate need of a win after losing 4 straight and 9 of their last 11....Reto Berra and the Calgary Flames travel to Anaheim to take on Jonas Hiller (LIKELY) and the Ducks. Hiller tries to get back on the winning track against a Flames team the Ducks should easily handle....In a game pitting two Western Conference powerhouses against one another, Jaroslav Halak (LIKELY)and the St. Louis Blues take their gear to San Jose to take on the Sharks and Antti Niemi. The Sharks have won 3 in a row while and 6 of last 7 while the Blues have won 5 in a row as Halak has been improving his game in that streak, allowing only 4 regulation goals in 4 games during that streak.  This should be a great game to watch and I'm not crazy enough to select who may win this one....On to 5:00 pm (ET) where we will see a battle of the backups.  The Montreal Canadiens go with Peter Budaj, who is having a magical season, and the Washington Capitals start Michal Neuvirth, giving Holtby a day's rest.  Both teams have a game tomorrow as well, so you should see the starters back in the net.  Go with the visiting Habs and Budaj who is having a better season than Neuvirth....Every hour on the hour continues as Jean-Sebastien Giguere get a turn in net for the Colorado Avalanche as they head to Minnesota to take on Josh Harding (LIKELY) and the Wild. Harding gets back in the net after injuring his groin last week.  He has a great record at home and has been the better goalie for the Wild this season...Cam Ward and the Carolina Hurricanes will take on the New Jersey Devils who will go with Cory Schneider who has been snake-bitten this season. Schneider's numbers are good but the team's lackluster scoring has been a thorn in his side.  Perhaps revenge is a good motive for the Devils in this rematch from Wednesday night... Ilya Bryzgalov gets the nod in the second of back-to-back nights after his shutout for the Nashville Predators on Thanksgiving night. Sergei Bobrovsky's play has been erratic all season for the Columbus Blue Jackets and that wasn't more apparent than in losing 4-0 to the Predators right after pasting the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-0. Two struggling teams going up against each other in this one but I see Bryzgalov getting his 2nd win in 2 nights....James Reimer is the man for the Toronto Maple Leafs as they head down the road to Buffalo to take on the Ryan Miller and the Sabres. Buffalo has lost 5 in a row, with Miller being in net for 4 of those losses. The Leafs are losers of 3 of their last 4 so you know they will be coming out like gangbusters in this one.  They need the win...The last time these two teams met the Chicago Blackhawks had a pretty easy time of it in defeating the Dallas Stars on their own ice.  Expect Corey Crawford (LIKELY) to have raise his record as Kari Lehtonen (LIKELY) has come back down to Earthby losing his last 2 starts after going 6-1 in the previous 7 starts. FANTASY MUST START Steve Mason, Philadelphia vs. Winnipeg Jonas Hiller, Anaheim vs. Calgary Josh Harding, Minnesota vs. Colorado James Reimer, Toronto @ Buffalo Corey Crawford, Chicago @ Dallas SLEEPER ALERT Kevin Poulin, NY Islanders vs. Detroit Peter Budaj, Montreal @ Washington Cory Schneider, New Jersey @ Carolina Ilya Bryzgalov, Edmonton @ Columbus DAILY GOALIE PICKS Steve: (34-22) Tuukka Rask Ray: (28-26) Steve Mason Mike: (27-25) Steve Mason