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Last night was a wild gambling night.  I wanted to start my weekend with a good head start, so I had a three game parlay of Penguins by 1, Capitals by 2 in Ottawa, and Lightning by 2 in Anaheim. What a wild ride it was because each game had some sort of drama attached to it.  Starting with the Flyers vs. Penguins: Crosby, thankfully finished this game off for me with a wicked OT snip. Over in Ottawa the NHL was messing with puckline gamblers everywhere: This is a VERY bad look for https://t.co/g0EsRnJ6me , especially with Ovie getting #695. Oh, and ties have been gone for 16 years. @NHL pic.twitter.com/UTJdHP8Rnn — Rear Admiral (@RearAdBsBlog) February 1, 2020 Thankfully I used the score app and didn't even see this happened until this morning. At this point I had a 5-1 parlay down to one game that was at 2-2 when I shut off the tv for the night. When I checked the score this morning I was obviously pissed with the 4-3 Lightning win.  Well, then I w...

The Canadiens have assigned forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi to the AHL’s Laval Rocket. #GoHabsGo https://t.co/bPiDi6NQHZ — Canadiens Montréal (@CanadiensMTL) February 1, 2020 Finally. This kid is a fan favourite, but he has a lot of work to do to develop his game at the national league level.  8 points in 36 games at 19 is tinkering with disaster.  I'm hoping he goes down to Laval and lights the lamp.  Can't wait to see him play in Belleville next Saturday night!  

I was wrong. The first period of the Flames Oilers game lived up the hype.  You could feel the tension through the TV last night. My smart tv disconnected the Sportsnet app, so as the game began I was desperately looking through my notes app for passwords to login back into our Sportsnet Now account. Once I did I was given the worst commentating crew of the century, but a great period of hockey. The unexpected grapple between Nugent Hopkins and Monahan really dialled things in. And of course, it set the stage for the main event of the evening. Which, was a lacklustre fight, but at least something happened. McDavid getting kneed by Giordano sets up a continued storyline for Saturday night, especially considering Connor came back from a major knee injury at the end of last year. Even though Kassian says it's over now, this rivalry is far from over. Something is going to do down Saturday night in Calgary. 

Arizona Coyotes on the Moneyline 1.56-1 over LA. Record 3-1

Let's recap: Which lead to: Edmonton’s Zack Kassian has been suspended for two games under Rule 46.2 (Aggressor) for an altercation with Calgary’s Matthew Tkachuk. https://t.co/GNOVYmYAkh — NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) January 14, 2020 https://edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/nhl/cult-of-hockey/suspended-zack-kassian-on-beating-on-matthew-tkachuk-id-do-it-again Which of course resulted in the now-famous quote: "I'd Do It Again"  Which leads us to tonight. A game that sort of actually means something for a 10 PM eastern game in the dead of winter.  Whoever wins tonight will move into second place in the Pacific division. Both teams are hot, and Edmonton carries the title of favourite tonight as the home team. For those wanting to stay up to see some sort of fight between Kassian and Tkachuk, it isn't happening.  This is a classic NHL move that has happened for years.  Hype gets built around a fight between two teams and then, of ...

I should have posted this one yesterday, but I figured this is exactly what people want to see first thing in the morning.  Ed Belfour was a legend when I was going up playing for the Stars, and later the Leafs. His mask with the Leafs was all-time: