How about those Ottawa Senators! Also, does Tortorella miss John Grahame and Sean Burke yet? I see the Lightning outshot the Habs 43-20 last night and lost, again.

**Still a bit steamed about the PPV experience last night. That darn Moosehead made it tough to string my take together coherently (slightly related fun-link here). I see the CalgaryPuck forum has lots of reports of refunds, so presumably I have that going for me today when Mrs. Matt calls to raise hell. Here's a take from "TurnedTheCorner" that's worth considering:

To the Flames - seriously, get out of the PPV business. Cancel the rest of them for the year, refund people who have pre-paid, huddle up and re-think your PPV strategy. The technical quality of the broadcasts is consistently horrible. The production values are non-existent. The bonus features like the interactive polls and Q&A with the broadcasters are coma inducing.

Stick to your core competencies. You are a hockey club, not a hockey broadcaster. And with each progressively worse PPV broadcast, you continue to hammer this point home.

Yes indeed -- though I gotta give ups to Charlie Simmer, he's a solid colour guy. When the Flames were getting denied on the PP in the 2nd period, he suggested several times that it was going to come back and bite them in the ass -- which was terribly irritating mainly because it was true... hey, I wonder if Roger Millions is getting up in anyone's face today?

**I've been meaning to note this for months now -- does anyone else find it both hilarious and obnoxious that TSN.ca's web content from the TV guys is headlined under TSN TALENT? It makes me think of Groundhog Day every time, where Rita and Larry roll their eyes at how full of himself Phil Connors is ("Did he actually refer to himself as 'the talent'?").

**Razor: "To the Blue Jackets, Hitchcock is a lot like Dolly Parton's bra." If Kelly Hrudey (who had a very enjoyable sit-in on Mike Richards in the Morning yesterday, btw) wants to learn more about Internet Blog People, this seems like the natural place to start.

**Sleek: "My baloney has a first name, it's...". That really is un-friggin-believable.

**Washing Machine Friesen got a point last night, assisting on Lombardi's shorty. Not only does that double his season total, but it gives him a PK scoring rate (0.87pts/hr) that's higher than his EV rate (0.26pts/hr) and his PP rate (0.00pts/hr). Wowza.

**Hell of a nice job by Giordano last night. He played 20 minutes, created some chances on the PP, and did a beauty job killing the 5-on-2.5 with Iginla and a stick-less Andrew Ference. If we're not there already, the time is near when Zyuzin starts getting scratched to keep Giordano in the lineup.

Go Flames.