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Riding the Zamboni - Thursday, November 18th

Florida Panthers v Boston Bruins

of the Boston Bruins of the Florida Panther on November 18, 2010 at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Bruins defeated the Panthers 4-0. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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If you found yourself turned off by the hat tricks tonight and you fancy yourself more of a shutout person, don’t worry you had something to cheer for tonight as well. All in all, a satisfying night to be an NHL fan... Well, unless your team lost. In that case, there’s always another game.

Boston 4 - Florida 0

With Milan Lucic netting a natural hat trick in the game, he provided all the offense the Bruins would need for the night. Former Panther Nathan Horton added three assists and fan-favorite Shawn Thornton had a goal and a fight. Oh yeah, and that goalie Tuukka Rask managed to get his first shutout of the season stopping 41 shots in the affair. Tomas Vokoun was the Panther of note in this one stopping 36 shots in the loss. Former Bruin Dennis Wideman was a -2 on the night and was the recipient of boos from some of the Bruins faithful proving that B’s fans can have selectively mean memory.

Toronto 3 - New Jersey 1

Break up the Leafs already. Toronto won their second straight game knocking off a floundering Devils team. Mikhail Grabovski, Phil Kessel, and Kris Versteeg each had goals while youngster Nazem Kadri had two assists in leading the Leafs to victory. Jonas Gustavsson was brilliant for Toronto stopping 29 shots in the win. Meanwhile, the Devils saw their lone goal come from Dainius Zubrus and saw Martin Brodeur leave the game after two periods after re-aggravating his elbow injury.

Tampa Bay 8 - Philadelphia 7

No, that’s not a typo. 15 goals between two teams, four goalies played in this one with all of them taking a statistical beating but it was the Lightning coming out on top. Steven Stamkos had a hat trick and two assists while Martin St. Louis had five assists as both players finished the night with five points. Nikolay Zherdev lead the way for Philly with two goals and an assist. What do Ville Leino, Kimmo Timonen, Jody Shelley, Mattias Ohlund, Pavel Kubina, Johan Harju, Mathieu Roy, and James Wright have in common? They were the only skaters to not get a point in this game.

Nashville 3 - Montreal 0

The return of Sergei Kostitsyn to Montreal saw him only land on the score sheet thanks to a minor penalty, but it would be Marcel Goc who lead the way offensively for the Predators. Goc had two goals for Nashville and Pekka Rinne stopped all 30 shots he saw as the Preds knocked off the recently streaking Habs. The loss snapped the Habs four-game win streak and while Carey Price played fine, the Habs top line didn’t as Mike Cammalleri and Tomas Plekanec each finished the game with a -3 rating.

Dallas 5 - San Jose 4 (F/OT)

Another night, another tremendous collapse and overtime loss for the San Jose Sharks. After getting dropped in OT by the Avalanche last night, the Sharks go and do it again tonight giving up two late goals to James Neal and Mike Ribeiro to send the game to OT. Ribeiro would sting the Sharks one more time in the extra session to win it for Dallas. Ribeiro finished with those two goals while James Neal had two goals and an assist to lead the way. Both goalies in this one stayed busy with Kari Lehtonen had 35 saves in the win while Antti Niemi made 36 saves in the loss. For San Jose, getting tough at the end of the game could go a long way to helping them out. Thus ends your obvious statement of the night.