Saturday Night Hockey: House-Cleaning Edition

Another week, another SNH. Good news though: we are thinking of making it a video panel for just this. Another good thing: I actually and willing to write about a few things that happened over the past two weeks, so enjoy...

Montreal, Montreal

A lot to say about these guys, right now the most disturbing news is that last week Josh Gorges joined Andrei Markov in the "needs a new right knee" department of the hospital. In unrelated news, Montreal now has the slowest defensemen in the league.

Along with last week, it was nice to see them win over the Penguins (despite being down the head...er...superstar of the league). With Benoit Pouliot channelling his inner-Forsberg and Price striking a pose, life seemed good...until next week when Pittsburgh won and Marc-Andre Fleury decided to be a smartass:



Just like a Crosby interview: un-original 

Steven Stamkos: Hypocritic, Victim of Karma

Rewind back to mid-December, anyone remember that Linus Omark? Some guy eh? Does a spin-o-rama before the blueline and scores. Enter Steven Stamkos, willing to say “I didn’t think it showed a lot of respect in this game,” (direct quote). Fast forward to the end of December. Against the Habs, Stamkos was awarded a penalty shot and end up scoring, but not before he completed a spin-o-rama. While it was right in front of the goalie, a spin-o-rama is a spin-o-rama no matter where it's done on the ice. Fast forward to January 8th, while being beat down 8-1 by the Penguins (I see a recurring theme amongst teams here), Stamkos was awarded another penalty shot. This time however, just after crossing the blueline he lost the puck and slipped. The Hockey Gods strike again.

Line-up Notables

Calgary Flames vs. Toronto Maple Leafs (a.k.a. the game were my dad and brother can FINALLY get after each other)

Calgary: Daymond Langkow, Raitis Ivanans, Steve Staios, and Tom Kostopoulos are out, Robin Regehr is probable for tonight. Miikka Kiprusoff gets the start.

Toronto: John Mitchell is out while Kris Versteeg and Fredrik Sjostrom are listed as questionable. J-S Giguere will start tonight.

New York Rangers vs. Montreal Canadiens

New York: Alex Frolov, Erik Christensen, Vinny Prospal, Derek Boogaard, and Ryan Callahan are all out. Henrik Lundqvist will probably start.

Montreal: Andrei Markov and Josh Gorges are out while Mike Cammalleri and Max Pacioretty are questionable. Carey Price gets the start.

Edmonton Oilers vs. Los Angeles Kings

Edmonton: Shawn Horcoff, Jordan Eberle, and Ryan Whitney are on IR, Gilbert Brule and Jim Vandermeer are questionable. Devan Dubnyk may start tonight.

Los Angeles: Just Scott Parse is out. Jonathan Bernier might start.