Legace takes best shot from Sabres and Canes

BUFFALO — At a little after 10 a.m. Friday morning, the Canes' Cam Ward took a cab to the airport, headed back to Raleigh with an injury. At a little after 7 p.m. Friday night, Manny Legace took a slapshot in the throat at the end of the pregame warmup at HSBC Arena. He was knocked to the ice, then needed help from trainers to get back to the bench and to the locker room. For a few fleeting seconds, it appeared Justin Peters might get his first NHL start a lot sooner than anyone expected -- against the Sabres. Peters, called up Friday from Albany (AHL), may start Saturday against the New York Islanders, but he almost had that moved up a day. Then again, as Legace later put it, "It probably would have taken a bullet between the eyes to keep me out." This was one game Legace wanted to play. His last start was Jan. 23 against the Philadelphia Flyers, and he lasted just seven minutes in that one before leaving because of "pink eye." Pink eye? In a spor...