Canes tame the Wild, 4-3. Canes looked shaky in the 1st, hit their stride in the second, and held on in the 3rd. Gotta win more face offs, though. Also, I would rather have Brett Carson on the ice than Jay Harrison.
Habs-Leafs tonight. Price will play despite the flu.
Montreal better win, if only so I can troll with my Facebook status.
It’s a Hockey Night in Pittsburgh!!! Penguins vs. Flyers!!! I am so fucking pumped!
(I can’t wait though until Jordan Staal’s back on the ice – I’ll feel a hell of a lot better.)
It’s a Game Center Online hockey marathon in Raleigh. Life is good.
I’m also watching NHL Gamecenter tonight. Edmonton had a good first period against Calgary. Taylor Hall looks pretty good. If not for some good saves by Kiprusoff, Oilers could be leading 3-0.
Only one mention of Sheldon Souray tonight. He can’t stay in the AHL for long.
Why do you say that?
I can’t see them exposing him to re-entry waivers and risking being on the hook for $2.7m for two years while he plays elsewhere if someone claims him, nor can I see any team with the right combination of cap space and need that would trade for him.
This just in: The Leafs haven’t lost a game all year.
There. Glad I got the chance to say that.
I’m looking forward to seeing the Wings in action tonight. They’ve certainly got a good enough team to see Cup mention, but I’ve still got concerns about the defense. I like the addition of Salei, and that Detroit is going with defensive pairings of one smooth defender with one mean one (Lidstrom/Kronwall, Rafalski/Stuart, Salei/Ericsson). I just think their team defense is getting collectively worse. It was great to see Howard making 30/40 saves in a night, but I couldn’t help but wonder why he had to. On a team with three players seeing some Selke attention (Datsyuk, Draper, and Zetterberg) plus a man who has seen more than his share of hot Norris trophy action (do I even need to say), why is Detroit giving up so many shots? If they continue to struggle like that, and Howard falters at all, Detroit won’t get within spitting distance of the cup.
A scary start to Caps/Thrashers, in which the Thrashers goalie Pavelec just collapses onto the ice, with no action around him. Looks very serious, and suddenly the match seems pretty secondary.
The Canes are also undefeated, thanks to Cam Ward and Jeff Skinner.
Looks like the Devils didn’t sell out tonight for their home opener. With all the money they spent on Kovalchuk, a loss to the Stars as well as what looked like a non-sellout, isn’t the way to start the season.
While the outcome of last night’s game sucked, Mario Lemieux “christening” center ice with the melted ice from Mellon Arena is one of those images us Pens fans will never forget.
(I hear that Kris Letang was sick yesterday morning and skipped practice. Perhaps it would have been better to scratch him then last night? Oh well.)
Sweet game last night. Pavel Datsyuk cost himself the lady byng by going toe to toe with Cory Perry last night. Lousy soft european players. What he lost in Lady Byng votes, he more than made up with the fans for his Gordie Howe hat trick. 
God bless that little bastard.
Other than that, not much to say. Anaheim spent most of the evening getting into stupid crap and sitting in the box. I actually think they’ve gotten dumber in the off season.
Yeah, goddamn that was a hoot to watch. Perry thought Dats was an easy target, and he held it to a draw and never stopped swinging.
Good start to the season. Anaheim really lost their shit, they need to work on not doing that.
Phoenix is up 4-0 over Boston at the end of the second. Think the Bruins will pull Rask in the first game of the season?
[wishful thinking]I hope a Hab went up to Malkin and/or Crosby after that game and went BOOYAH![/wishful thinking]
Damn that was an awesome game. It was like Game 8 of last year’s series…intense, aggressive and ridiculous, and with awesome, first-star goal-tending by Price and some sort of minor miracle, the Habs manage to beat both the Penguins and the refs! Cammalleri continues to be a Pens killer with two goals (which somehow merited only the third star with Malkin as #2)
The game as a whole deserves a rounding chorus of Olé, Olé olé OLÉ!!!
Sorry for the double post, but…damn, thisfreaks me out. Pavelec doesn’t remember playing the first couple minutes of last night’s game, and it took time to recover feeling in his legs. Any of you hockey fans happen to be doctors? What the hell could have happened to the guy? It’s so weird, and for some reason, it’s really bothering me!
I’m no doctor, but at least one weird symptom here isn’t too mysterious. When Pavelec fell, he cracked his head on the ice and reportedly gave himself a concussion. Even a mild head injury can cause a loss of a few minutes of memory, including the incident causing the injury. So the memory loss may be an effect of the concussion, rather than a direct effect of…whatever caused him to fall and hit his head in the first place.
Oh, it’s only our second game of the season – don’t count us out yet. (And even though it doesn’t count, we were 5 and 1 in the pre-season.)
Besides, remember what happened last year when Subban decided to get all cocky? “WHEN we win the Cup?” Hmmmm?
Actually, they did sell it out. Selling all the tickets is different than having a butt in every seat, though. A lot of the seats in the lower bowl are owned by corporations, and they don’t always show up… and seating in the lower bowl also entitles the person access to either the Fire or the Ice Lounges, which affords better amenities than sitting in ones seat–so many lower bowl ticket holders spend the game up there.
As to the loss to the Stars, it’s definitely not the way to start the season (nor was the collapse vs. the Crapitals) but anyone who didn’t expect some growing pains had unrealistic expectations.