I'm watching the Flyers/Penguins game and Joffrey Lupul just earned himself a hat trick. I love seeing all the hats come flying down onto the ice, but even better is seeing the fans that are way too far away from the ice failing miserably as they try to send their hats on to the pond. Lupul also tacked on three assists for a six point night...
This performance leads to the question: What was the best off-season move made by Flyers GM Paul Holmgren? Daniel Briere is clearly the best player the Flyers acquired, but he came with a very high price tag (8 years/$52 million), so wouldn't turning the disappointing Joni Pitkanen into new Flyers captain Jason Smith and Joffrey Lupul be the best swindle of the summer by Holmgren?

...Leading 7-2 with about 6 minutes to go, Jeff Carter just beat down Ray Whitney and Scott Hartnell wrecked Colby Armstrong. It's always good to back up a thrashing on the scoreboard by delivering a few black eyes.

...A Penguin player just slid into Flyers goalie Marty Biron. If a Flyer did that, he would have been tossed from the game and everyone would have been talking about how dirty the Flyers are, but the Versus announcers didn't seem to think intentionally taking out the legs of a goalie was a big deal. Earlier in the game, Ben Eager hit a player with his shoulder and the announcers were screaming about how dirty the hit was, even though it was clean and didn't garner a penalty. I don't mind announcers calling out the Flyers for questionable hits, but at least call it both ways.

...and on the ensuing power play, R.J. Umberger comes through with the hat trick! Where did people get more hats? And why didn't they throw those hats for Lupul? Maybe those are the hats thrown from the 200 level that didn't reach the ice.

...and the Flyers roll over the Penguins 8-2

By the way, is there anything better in hockey than hearing a "Crosby sucks" chant and seeing Sydney Crosby nearly in tears while he's whining about calls?