• Kane moves up Hawks’ leaderboard
• Beagle destroys Central Division
On Wednesday night, Jarome Iginla, who has over 1200 games played, 500 goals and 500 assists for the Calgary Flames, did something he had never done in the Saddledome before.
He scored a goal wearing the away team’s jersey.
While the story of the game entering the match was Matthew Tkachuk vs. Drew Doughty, it ended as the Jarome Show. After a massive fight with Deryk Engelland (above), a sneaky (lucky) goal off Mark Giordano, and an assist on Jeff Carter’s third period marker, Iginla picked up his 11th Gordi Howe hat trick of his career.
As for his sneaky (lucky) goal? That marks his 100th career game-winning goal and he becomes the seventh player in NHL history to reach that mark.
Even though Iginla came back to Calgary with his fellow Kings and postponed clinching day for Flames faithful, they stuck around after the game with a hefty round of applause as he was announced as the game’s first star.
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Kane moves up Hawks’ leaderboard
Patrick Kane continues to cement himself as one of the Chicago Blackhawks‘ all-time greats.
As the Blackhawks took on the Pittsburgh Penguins in a highly anticipated potential Stanley Cup final preview, Kane made a slick pass from behind the net to Artemi Panarin early in the first to set off an offensive explosion and rout of the defending champs.
That assist was his first of two in the 5-1 drubbing, moving him to 50 helpers on the year. That gives Kane four seasons with 50 or more assists, which is tied for third all-time in Blackhawks’ history with Jeremy Roenick.
The Blackhawks did what few could do by beating the Penguins at home, who going into the game were 29-5-4 at PPG Paints Arena, and they pick up there 105th point of the season to keep themselves in the Presidents’ Trophy race, trailing the Washington Capitals by five points with five games to go.
Beagle destroys Central Division
Superman has kryptonite, Garfield has Mondays and the Central Division has Jay Beagle.
During a game between two severely mismatched opponents featuring the Washington Capitals and the Colorado Avalanche, Beagle tipped in this goal to give the Capitals their second lead of the game.
That was Beagle’s 13th tally of the season but, for whatever reason, was his ninth of the year against a Central Division opponent. To break it down, Beagle has nine goals against said division in 13 games and four goals against all other teams in 62 games.
Whatever it is about that division, Beagle has their number.
The Central Division does host the leagues worst Avalanche, but they also include the West’s best Blackhawks, whom four of his nine goals were scored — he got two goals apiece against the Hawks on Nov. 11 and Jan. 13 (his only two multi-goal games of the season).
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