Canadiens Strong But Can't Douse Flames

In a battle of early season unbeatens (and two teams that love to get out shot) the Calgary Flames defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-3 while wearing some fantastic throw back jerseys.

On a night where top defenders Robyn Regehr and Dion Phaneuf were scored on at will (each had a minus three), Calgary got a lot of help from it's fourth line.

Eric Nystrom had two goals (not a typo) and Staffan Kronwall (not the cheap hitting Kronwall) had his first NHL goal in the victory over the Canadiens.

Jarome Iginla (probably the NHL's best captain, despite how often Pierre McGuire fellates Mike Richards) got his first goal of the season on a nice back hand.

Montreal got goals from Scott Gomez and his over-sized contract, Guillaume Latendresse and Tomas Plekanec, who seems to be everywhere this season.

Montreal may want to keep getting out shot as they won both games when their oppenents had more shots, but lost tonight when they out shot Calgary 30-28 (Calgary out shot the Canadiens 16-6 in the second, while Montreal out shot the Flames 15-5 in the third).

A lot of Flames fans needlessly lost their headwear as Kronwall's goal was originally credit to Nystrom, which would've been his third goal and signal the apocalypse.

Jaroslav Halak was in net in place of Carey Price who was given a night off, and let in four goals on 28 shots.

Surprisingly, only one minor penalty was called the entire game, but we did see two fights:

In the first period Greg Stewart (Montreal Canadiens) made the mistake of taking on Brandon Prust (Calgary Flames)


In the second period Kyle Chipchura (Montreal Canadiens and fabled Mexican goat killer) took on Eric Nystrom (Calgary Flames) who should probably just stick to scoring goals.


Montreal goes back to work tonight against the Vancouver Canucks and a choking Roberto Luongo.