Various notes from around the NHL last night:Sharks 5 Red Wings 1: The Sharks are off... sorry there, was just interrupted by the refs calling another penalty against the Red Wings. By the way, do you think Detroit/Windsor fans and team management alike realizes the party is over for the Red Wings?
Owner Mike Ilitch has a special deal going for people who have World Series fever: You can buy a pair of tickets to either of the games this weekend, but the catch is you also have to buy single seats to 20 Red Wings games.
Yes, San Jose (6-1-0-0) is off to its best start in team history. All five Sharks goals were on the power play last night, yet Milan Michalek was the only one to pick up more than two points.
Avs 2 Sens 1: Hey, at least Martin Gerber (34 saves) wasn't the problem. Mike Fisher continues to remain an enigma for Ottawa; on the first Colorado goal, by Joe Sakic, he barely tried to tie up the Colorado captain, who had an easy tap-in.
Not that Fisher's the only Sen who has something to answer for this morning. Ottawa's power play, so-called, had another oh-fer and is now 1-for-34 on the season, with three short-handed goals allowed. Maybe the Senators have realized that they have a better chance scoring 5-on-5 than 5-on-4 -- two third-period power plays were cut short by penalties to Jason Spezza and Daniel Alfredsson. This is a very fragile team right now.
At least Dany Heatley popped his maiden goal. The guy Ottawa traded to get him, Marian Hossa, scored twice (and set up a third goal) last night for the Thrashers before popping in the shootout winner. Ouch for Ottawa.
Bruins 3 Flames 2: At least the Sens aren't alone when it comes to highly touted Canadian teams that are struggling something fierce early in the season. The Flames gave up a goal 18 seconds in and egged it on the PP, where they're just 3-for-44.
Lightning 4 Flyers 1: On The Score last night, Steve Kouleas and Mark Obsborne were taking great glee in deconstructing Philly's Derian (minus-10) Hatcher's stumbling and bumbling in his own zone. Hatcher was a top defenceman in pre-lockout hockey, where holding and cross-checking was tacitly legal, but he's utterly hopeless so far this season. He looks like he's not sure what he can do to opposing forwards without getting called for a penalty, and he's too slow to catch up to them. Oh, and Peter Forsberg left the game with what might be a severe wrist injury. It's not getting any better in Philadelphia.
That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.
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