"Shot From Hartnell and Not Too Late

I have to admit it. I was starting to think that Scott Hartnell would be the next Kyle Caldar. Hartnell was picked up because he is a 20 goal scorer. He has looked anything,but although he hasnt looked awful he only has had two goals before Saturday night and they were both empty net goals.

The problem is usually harder to overcome when players go on a drought. The start 2nd guessing themselves and shooting to quick, or passing instead of taking the shot. Hartnell was trying to make up for his lack of goals in other ways. He was drew lots of penalties and has been good in the corners.

However, it would have been only a matter of time before the fans turned on him, and the coaching staff would have really gotten tired of him not producing. Saturday night he scored an awesome goal and helped Philly knock off the best team in the league. It was a hard ass shot from fairly far out. Just an awesome shot.

With Gagne likely to miss most of the season we need someone to step it up. Hartnell seems to me as a good fit and I am glad that he finally scored a goal in a big way. Maybe now he will start scoring every few games. Playing on a line with Danny Briere will help big time of course, but even DAnny couldn't have gotten him out of a funk if he went into December without scoring a legit goal.

The picture here is of Scott with his really really cute wife when they were down at Borgata to celebrate their one year anniversary. Scott it might have been rough going there for awhile, and we all laughed when your first goal was an open net goal. BUt, now that the monkey has been tossed of your back we need you scoring Buddy! You have an adorable wife, can go to AC whenever you have the time, run up the steps and pretend your rocky on your day off, life is good! Now score some more goals.

Oh yeah, and don't feel bad that TIm PAnacio kept calling you "Jeff" Hartnell today in his column you keep scoring goals like that and people will be wearing your last name on their jerseys and people hockey writers will memorize your first name.