Hockey Day in Canada

This past Saturday here in Canada, CBC's usual Hockey Night in Canada had its once a year event Hockey Day in Canada broadcasted from Lloydminster, BC. All 7 Canadian team were in action with 3 all Canadian affairs Edmonton taking on Winnipeg, Montreal visiting Toronto, and Calgary facing Vancouver, Ottawa played hoist to the New York Rangers. And that's where I'll start in the nation's capital, where the Senator's fell to the Rangers by a score of 4-1, with the help of a big night from Derek Stepan who had himself 3 points, a goal and 2 assist. Next stop we head to Winnipeg where the Jets hoist the Oilers, and win another game under new head coach Paul Maurice 3-2 in overtime, with 2 goals from rookie defenceman Jacob Trouba. Saturday night gave us an original 6 mathcup and one of the biggest rivalries in sports, The Montreal Canadiens and the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was an entertaining game and filled with hate as usual, the Maple Leafs had the last laugh beating their rivals 5-3, with 2 assist from Kadri, goal an assist by Kessel, and goal and an assist by Lupul. Now for the final game of the night between the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks, and let's just say this game started out with a bang. Opening faceoff we got to see a full line brawl as both coaches elected to start their tough guys and all hell broke loss. in a matter of 2 seconds 152 penalty minutes were handed out and a toal of a 188 penalty minutes were tallied out in the 1st period with the score 0-0. Pretty crazy start in Vancouver, but the Canucks were able to edge out the Flames in a shootout 3-2, shootout winner from Chris Higgins. Both coaches were received punishment for their action in Saturday night's brawl, Flames coach Bob Hartley received a $25,000 fine and John Tortorella was given a 15 day suspension without pay.