Me and the Boys out for a skate.

Great stuff goin on across the league, Hockey fights Cancer, Mustaches grown by teenagers to draw attention to the fight and some great games in the last couple of days.  While in a turkey induced haze, I watched a few games yesterday including the Flyers/Rangers, Hawks/Lightning and the Nucks/Tiburones.

Flyers game was close and well played by Philadelphia and Henrik Lundquist.  The King stopped 39 shots and generally stood on his head to keep the BlueShirts in the game but Philly and G Calvin Pickard were too strong.  The game was 1-0 for most of it with the Flyers breaking it open near the end with 3 unanswered goals to win going away 4-0.

The trouble in Second City continues for Patrick Kane and Johnny T as the Lightning defeated them at home 4-2.  Tampa was seemingly scoring at will early in the game leading 3-0 and 4-1 before the Hawks found their game to score a couple of goals.  Louis Domingue played very well in a backup role to Andrei Vasilevskiy, who is out with a broken ankle.

Sharks and Canucks was competitive but San Jose won going away 4-0.  Eric Karlsson had a three point game including a power play goal and the primary assist on his brother from another mother Melker Karlsson.

However, the dark side of the Sharks reared its ugly head the next night in Vegas, as San Jose was pummeled, rolled, kicked to the curb and not even given taxi fare home as the Golden Showers beat em up 6-0.  Inexplicable to me how a team could dominate one night, travel 300 miles and get their teeth kicked in.

Vegas is still a formidable team evidently, as the Sharks continue to have trouble with their neighbors in the Pacific Division. They have never beaten Knights in the regular season over 1+ years except for an OT win in San Jose last year. Thats 0-4-1.  Next up, the redhot Beefalo Sabres in B town.  Good luck Team Inconsistent!