Stone Cold Beauty

Last night at The Joe:

As the announcers said... "a goal scorer's goal!"  Datsyuk was hot last night... he's hot EVERY night... and that goal was a thing of beauty.  The game was between two Original Six teams and both are leading their divisions, separated only by a single point overall.  Lots of Habs fans made the trip from Quebec to Dee-troit; the announcers on My Very Expensive Radio remarked often on that fact.  It sure sounded like a good one.

The Wings were lucky to get the win IMHO.  While it was all Wings in the first two frames, the Wings were on their heels in the third.  It's not often ya come away with a win when the third period action looks like this:

The Habs outshot the Wings 20-3 in the third but Jimmy Howard was hot.  He had to be.

―:☺:― 

In other hockey news... about 109,000 folks will watch The Big Chill At The Big House in Ann Arbor today.

The game will result in a new world-record for attendance at a hockey game IF the stadium fills to capacity.  That's a big "if," because of a number of factors, including weather (30 degrees is the game-time forecast), common sense, and other stuff.  Most folks will be going for the experience/party, judging from the sight lines in the pic above.  But Hey!  That's what stadium athletics are all about, no?  I loves me some hockey but I'll be damned if I'll sit for two-plus hours in 30-degree temps.