Preissing's standing

By Matthew Kredell on November 12, 2007 4:08 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

Crawford said making Preissing a healthy scratch was more to get Dallman in a game than to send Preissing a strong message the way he did Nagy earlier this season.

``I wanted to play Dallman,'' Crawford said. ``He's had to withstand long layoffs. He's practiced so, so hard. I talked to Tom. You never can not be concerned when you don't play. I told him this is what I expect from you, and this is why we're playing Dallman. We really felt Dallman deserved to play. I'll be upfront and let them know if it's a situation where I think something is missing from their game.''

J.P. Hoornstra writes about NHL and IHL hockey for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. He welcomes any and all dialogue on the finer points of hockey. E-mail J.P. at jp.hoornstra
@inlandnewspapers.com.

Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews
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