Happy Monday!
This week on the show we’re talking NHL playoffs & suspensions, along with some of the first teams to move on to the next round and another clock controversy from last week’s action. Also: we discuss a perfect game in the MLB and a legend leaving women’s basketball.
In the GABBYs: Martin Brodeur, Jamie Moyer, Washington Capitals fans, an Alabama parent, the Charlotte Bobcats and the Orlando Magic. The Punchline this week is high school baseball player Jameson Painter.
It takes a special snipe to make my Goals of the Week list, and it came down to a lot of nifty special teams action this time around!
Yes, it’s a power play heavy edition of the GOTW, featuring the Penguin who can’t stop scoring, a couple of beauties from the biggest surprise of the new season, a sweet passing play from the Island and one even-strength goal…can you guess which one?
Let’s go!
5. James Neal
Kicking things off is James Neal – the way the Penguins move the puck around on this PP, it looks like the thing is bouncing around a pinball machine! (See ALL the goals of the week after the jump!) (more…)
Happy Monday!
Another week has come and gone in the wide world of sports, and as always, the guys from 15 Minutes of Fame are here to get you up to date on just what went down!
This week on the show, we address what the week holds for Oilers rookie Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and we look at the biggest surprises from the first few weeks of the NHL season. In the CFL, we discuss the late-season surge of the Eskimos and the benching of Calgary QB Henry Burris, and in baseball, are the Red Sox really as bad as everyone says? Oh, and the Lingerie Football League wants to start a youth program…seriously!
In the GABBYS: Dewey Bozella, Joe Thornton, Hall Gill & Nick Lidstrom, Canada’s Pan-Am swim team, the Montreal Canadiens, Floyd Landis and Yoav Ziv. This week’s Punchline is the NCAA ref streaker!
Jason Spezza (Ric Laf, Wikimedia Commons)
Canada may not have played its best game at the World Hockey Championships, but at the end of the day, got the job done.
Jason Spezza of the Ottawa Senators, John Tavares of the New York Islanders and James Neal of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored for Canada Saturday morning in a 3-2 win over Norway at Kosice, Slovakia.
It was Canada’s fifth win of the tournament (third regulation win compared to two overtime wins).
A major reason for the Canadian success Saturday was that they were able to shut down Norway’s electrifying power play, which was number one in the tournament at 33.3%. Norway was zero for six with the man advantage.
Neal, Spezza and Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets all had multi-point games for Canada. Neal and Spezza each had a goal and an assist, while Nash had two assists.
Jonathan Bernier of the Los Angeles Kings made 25 saves on 27 shots.
Canada next plays Monday against Sweden at 12pm MT (TSN).
Jason Chimera (Wikimedia Commons)
For the first time in eight years, there were two Stanley Cup Playoff games that went into double overtime on the same night.
At Madison Square Garden, Edmonton native Jason Chimera was the hero as he scored at 12:36 of double overtime past Henrik Lundqvist to give the Washington Capitals a come from behind 4-3 win over the New York Rangers. The Capitals got three third period goals, two from Marcus Johansson, to come back and tie the game at three after being down 3-0 at the end of the second period. The Capitals now have a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference quarterfinal.
The game I was watching was the double overtime game in Tampa Bay as the Pittsburgh Penguins took a 3-1 series lead on the Lightning with a game winning goal from James Neal.
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