Winter Classic

What happned New Years day? Lets see, had cabbage, ham, mashed potatoes, Mac and Cheese, black eye beans, did any thing else happen? Lets see, fireworks, all 2015 calanders became obsolete, what else? oh thats right...

HABS WIN 5-1 over the boston bruins

 Don't you just love a Blue, blanc, rouge day? So before we get into the grand game, lets look at the lead up, The Alumni game, that was amazing, for the first time getting to see the likes of Guy Carbonneau out there skating, Jose Theodore goal tending, Chris "Knuckles" Nilan out there with out a damn helmet on, let me say that again, HE SKATED AND PLAYED WITH NO HELMET ON!!!!! Granted that the bruins won it in the shoot out. The beautiful Les Canadiennes played the boston pride , NWHL vs CWHL, inter league play, which I didn't get to see, and there is no way to find a goal, but this was a big day for women's hockey everywhere, it put them on the big stage and let these beauties shine.
 Then the Winter Classic, the game that everyone was waiting for. Lets get started with the basics, as a hockey purist I would have loved to see the game done "normally". Sadly that didnt happen, instead of Rene Rancourt singing the anthemes, they had Jordan Smith do the US anthem, and Simple Plan do the Canadian anthem. (this is the NHL's attempt to market to NON-HOCKEY FANS) Anyway after that was done the teams took the ice. In the NW crease, standing 6'2" and weighing in at 185 lbs, wearing black and gold with the number 40, the Finnish Blocker, TUUKKA RASK, and in the SE crease, standing 6'2" and weighing in at 196 lbs, wearing blue, white and red with the number 39, Captian America,  New Englands own, MIKE CONDON. Yeah let that sink in for a bit. Now that its happened, lets move on. We had Gally back for the first time. And boy did the game start in an exciting way, Desharnias scored the first goal of the game, followed by Byron, Gally, Patches, and Byron agian. It was exciting, Gally was the First star, but the REAL star of this game was Mike Condon. A goalie who was seen as the enemy by friends and family for signing with MTL, but he showed them who was the best.
 Now the question, what can we take from this? well Gally is back, but Weise left, but no Pricer. Carey is out still, and the last time I saw an update, he isn't back yet. so where does this leave us, well Scrivy starts tonight in the net against Philly, were gonna have to keep waiting for Price to be back, but that my friends is for another day.