60 minutes.
The duration of many
a television program.
The length of
meetings, courses and
lessons.
And ... the time
required for a National
Hockey team to focus in
a regular season game.
At least that's the
design.
The Calgary Flames
came up a few minutes
short in dropping a 4-1
decision to the home ice
hungry Washington
Capitals.
The game featured a
myriad of disappointments
for the Flames
including; a second
period lapse and a
potential injury to star
forward Jarome Iginla.
|
2003
Draft Watch |
|
If
the draft was held
today ... |
|
Pick
|
Team
|
Player*
|
| 1 |
Pittsburgh |
M.-A.
Fleury |
| 2 |
Carolina |
Milan
Michalek |
| 3 |
Buffalo |
Nikolai
Zherdev |
| 4 |
Atlanta |
Nathan
Horton |
| 5 |
Columbus |
Braydon
Coburn |
| 6 |
Calgary |
Eric
Staal |
| 7 |
San
Jose |
Andrei
Kastsitsyn |
| *ranking:
Red
Line 2/26/03 |
|
Just
minutes after
scoring his 25th
goal of the NHL
season - and 20th in
21 games - Iginla
was hit from behind
into the boards by
Capital defenceman
Ken Klee and had to
leave the game.
Klee
was handed a hitting
from behind major
and a game
misconduct on the play.
"It's
an unfortunate
incident. We weren't
happy about
it," said
Defenceman Denis
Gauthier. "I
don't know how
Jarome is doing
right now, but
hopefully we get him
back. It's very
frustrating to see a
thing like that
happen."
The
Capitals opened the
scoring in a
lethargic first
period for the home
side, when Sergei
Gonchar scored his
third of four goals
against the Flames
this season.
Sergei
Berezin put the Caps
up by two early in
the second before
Iginla struck on the
powerplay to cut the
lead in half.
The
game was put on ice
midway through the
second when the
Capitals scored
twice in just 89
seconds, taking
advantage of a lull
in Flame
concentration.
The
Flames carried the
better of the play
from that point on
but the damage was
done.
There
was no scoring in
the third period.
