Clip Of The Day: Milan Lucic Gordie Howe's It.

The assist...



... The goal...



... And the fight...



... In that order.

Clip Of The Day: Ryan Smyth's Dirty Goal Ignites The Kings.

Being down 1-0 going into the third period of their home opener, the Los Angeles Kings really needed something to go right for them so they could beat the Atlanta Thrashers. The Kings stopped trying to be fancy and started just putting the puck to the net. This was the first of three goals the Kings scored in the third (with Smyth picking up two of them and getting an assist on the other) to get the Kings to a 3-1 victory. Kudos to Smyth for working his tail off and making it happen.

Clip Of The Day: James Wisniewski guesses Sean Avery's orientation

You can't expect the biggest pest in the league not to have to withstand insults now that his fascination with women's fashion has come to light, but did The Wiz (who's also a Detroit native) go perhaps too far?



Update: Wisniewski earned a two-game suspension for his gesture. No Avery's no angel, but Wisniewski's own status as a "repeat offender" certainly didn't help the cause.

Clip Of The Day: Tyler Seguin gets his first NHL point before Taylor Hall does.

Yeah it's against the Coyotes (who are beloved on this blog as far as Mike's concerned) but give it up to Seguin for popping his NHL goal cherry.

Clip Of the Day: Vernon Fiddler and Greg Campbell show off the "North American" game

Playing in the Czech Republic for the NHL season opener, these two had a chance to show off why fighting should be penalized with majors and only majors (unlike European leagues, who usually kick players out altogether for fighting.)

Clip Of The Day: Pavel Datsyuk Serves Corey Perry

No it wasn't a win for Datsyuk, but it wasn't a win for Perry either so it, by proxy, is a win for Datsyuk...

Clip Of The Day: Steve MacIntyre KO's Raitis Ivanans

We're fans of Ivanans here but give MacIntyre credit; he's fighting not to get sent down to the minors (no pun intended) so this really helped solidify his chances as the team's resident enforcer (at least over Zach "huggy bear" Stortini)