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The Montreal Canadiens have announced the call up of defenceman Yannick Weber today. The 22 year old swiss born defenceman, selected 73rd overall in the 2007 NHL entry draft by the Habs,  has played 15 games and collected 12 points for the Hamilton Bulldogs this season. Weber may be able to bring a much needed point shot for the power play as 4 of his 8 goals have come with  the extra man in Hamilton.  He has played a total of 8 games at the NHL level with the Habs between 2008 and 2010 and has accumulated one assist so far.

David Desharnais had to score twice on the shootout to give the Bulldogs a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Marlies.  The only reason the Marlies made it to the shootout was because of their young netminder Jussi Rynnas, who was also incidentally appointed as the AHL player of the week last week.  Rynnas was outstanding stopping 44 of 45 shots directed at him in the game.  

Curtis Sanford did everything he could to give his team a fighting chance, but the Bulldogs were unable to capitalize on their chances in a defeat to the Grand Rapids Griffins at the Copps Coliseum tonight.  The Griffins didn't take long to open the scoring when at the 8:53 mark of the first period, Francis Pare grabbed a rebound and with no defencemen in front of him, he beat Sanford with a quick shot making it 1-0 for the Griffins.  This would be the only goal scored in the first as the Griffins played a very tight defensive game and allowed only four shots on the net. 

Montreal forward Dustin Boyd, who was placed on the waivers list yesterday by the organization, has been cleared to stay with the team.  This means that the team has 30 days or 10 games, whichever comes first, to send Boyd down to the Hamilton Bulldogs, if they desire to do so.  Although, it should be noted that Coach Jacques Martin did say yesterday that Boyd will remain with the team if he clears waivers.  This does raise some questions as to why the Habs put Boyd on waivers.  Perhaps they were hoping that Boyd will be picked up by another team clearing out some cap-sp

After scoring only one goal on 70 shots in their last two outings, Head coach Jacques Martin has decided to shuffle his deck.  The shuffle landed Andrei Kostitsyn, the team's best scorer, on Scott Gomez's left wing with Brian Gionta completing the line.  Kostitsyn's demotion to the struggling second line also saw Lars Eller being promoted to the first line playing along with Tomas Plekanec and Michael Cammalleri.  The third line of Benoit Pouliot-Jeff Halpern-Mathieu Darche remained intact.  And finally, Tom Pyatt replaced Dustin Boyd to center the fourth lin