The Calgary Flames visited the Edmonton Oilers last night. Of course they hate each other, so it’s like putting your ex-boyfriend in a room with your older brother and letting them duke it out. The game was both a total mess and really fun to watch. Highlight of the Game: Alex Tanguay’s game-winning shootout goal! LOBSTER! I thought a photo recap would be fun.
It was Mikka Kipprusoff’s 34th birthday and the Flames were up 4-1 in the second period. There was a lot of this:
FREE HUGS!
And a lot of this, just because. 6 fighting majors were doled out during the game, along with an instigator penalty and 2 roughing minors.
- Your momma’s so fat…
Then Kipper started thinking about the sieve-shaped birthday cake Dawn was baking for him and gave up 3 goals in 10 minutes, resulting in a lot of this:
Lobster on the right, paying the price.
So we went to overtime, then to a shootout. And this happened:
High score? What does that mean? Did I break it?
Ultimately the end result was:
Iginla's bet is paying off.
Both goaltenders were a mess – from standing on their hands to dropping their pants on alternating shifts. There was a fight every 5 minutes, and twice they had to stop going to commercial because a dust-up broke out after the whistle. One fight the cameraman couldn’t find till it was almost over.
The moral of the story is Alex Tanguay is playing great and I still don’t have him back on my fantasy team. But I do believe in him, especially if he keeps making rink-wide slot passes like he did for Bouwmeester’s goal last night. PS: Excellent last name. Almost as many useless letters as Antero Niittymaki.
Photos: Calgary Sun
Tags: Alex Tanguay, calgary flames, Edmonton Oilers, jarome iginla, mikka kiprusoff
You beat me to this post! HA! I was worried that Miika was going to implode but he held it together long enough! I love it when they play each other – it’s always a good a game!