Heroes of Hockeytown

Smith quackin' like a duck!

Defense has been crazy active this season. And so far this has been a good thing against all teams but San Jose.

is dat sum gluv???

That was out of nowhere. Here we go, Jimmy...

Wow Franzen was really busting his ass there.

Sneaky, Nik.

I'm okay with what he did. If you don't have a play, delay.

Pavel doing more work. Maybe this is the big game that gets him going.

They've got 3:2 PP to SH goals the last two games! By god that's a winning ratio!

I bet Cleary gets put on his ass more than any player in the NHL.

Well at least Pavs scored.

Back to back...

Hank was that you? Thank god you finally dealt with that imposter.

Bert's definitely got some jump.

'ere we go, lads! Ish time for da fightin'!

We certainly saw what Flip and Franzen are capable of. Quality second line-type objects that can win you some games when your top guys don't score. This is the primary function of depth, of course, but the team won't be very successful if those top guys never score. I'm continuing to give Pavel the benefit of the doubt because he at least looks like he's trying to play hockey, but Hank has honestly looked like a fourth liner of late. I have no explanation for this; perhaps he's injured. If it's any solace at all he's at least had one other fairly rough start to the season, in 2007, and he ended up above PPG that year.

They got their asses kicked in the playoffs is what he means.

Goooood niiiiiiiight LGW.

Going to tough it out... Although I might reconsider if the Sharks get the next goal.

Hank has got to shoot. s***, Joe Thornton did.

They did, but those kind of gaffes can be deflating. Of course, there's only one way to find out. Stay tuned...

Nick and Pavs caught looking.

Several nice plays by Pavel. And Homer doing work too.

Probably what Babcock was doing was putting Homer in there since it was an offensive zone faceoff. Doesn't have to worry the ol' slowpoke messing that up.

The Abdelkader experiment is working so far.