TSM: Hatty-Pinard and Slick Nick wreak havoc on Indigenous night

Mar 26, 2023 - 1:45 AM

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Pre-game

• It’s something very comforting about being part of Hockey Night in Canada while actually being here in the flesh. Makes me feel like I’m part of a big Canadian family.
• Philly has already won. That’s good for the tank.
• Otherwise, I’m hoping for wins for NYR, VAN, ANA, OTT and CHI.
• #4TheTank #PotentialJinx?

First Period

• Love the pre-game jerseys!
• Columbus takes an early lead. Sad for the game, but good #4TheTank.
• Mike Hoffman evens the score after a smooth zone entry from Mike Matheson.

• The irony of playing against a team named after Cristopher Columbus on Indigenous Celebration Night.
• Minnesota manages to just squeeze past Chicago. That’s too bad. Was hoping for a CHI point there.
• Who needs Messi when you have Jesse?
• Ylönen gives the Canadiens the lead midway through the first.
• Marchenko may have tied the game?
• Monty knocks the goal off balance right as the puck hits the far post, with the puck then bouncing off the goalie’s back and in.
• Call changed from no-goal to goal. Whaddaya gonna do?
• Ceci n’est pas un enterrement de crapaud right now though, is it?

Second Period

• RHP making his very best Brendan Gallagher impression and we have another lead for the Habs.

• 100 per cent a Mike Matheson goal though.
• Nothing against Jeff Petry, but in 2023 and going forward, I am delighted to have Matheson instead.
• Annnnd then David Savard hits the puck over the glass and Columbus will have a chance to tie things up on the man advantage.
• Harvey-Pinard. Again!

• Suzuki with his third assist for the evening, bringing him up above 60 points for the second straight season.
• Oh Captain, My Captain!
• It’s play against one net only right now. The Blue Jackets are playing hockey like the tire fire they’ve been all season long.
• 5-2 and it’s the best of goals.
• It is a Gally goal!

• His first since early January. Assisted by another former member of the IR-club, Jake Evans.
• Gally with his very best Gally impression as well.
• See how fun hockey can be when you don’t have half your team on IR.
• RHP! He scores when he wants.
• We have a first career hat-trick for the young man from Saguenay.

• According to the broadcast, Harvey-Pinard is the first Canadiens player to score a hatty in one and the same period since 1952.

Third Period

• Will RHP score four goals, and become the first rookie to do so since Sprague’s brother Odie Cleghorn in 1919?
• Will Slick Nick have his first four point game during his NHL career?
• So many questions still to answer!
• But first thing’s first:
• Who actually scored the seventh goal of the night?
• Did Chris Tierney get his stick on the puck or was Alex Belzile last Hab on the puck.
• Regardless, we now have 7-2 for the home side.
• Make that eight*.
• And Nick Suzuki has his fourth point of the night.
• Three assists are followed by an unassisted goal. And a nice one at that.

• It’s actually fun to win once in a while. Regardless of the whole #4TheTank-movement; a movement for which I am currently the president.

EOTP 3 Stars

3) They played it to a T

2) It’s difficult to be upset about that one

1) We expect you all to join us to discuss next Saturday’s game as well