CALGARY – The Calgary Flames are winning at least one key matchup against the Vancouver Canucks: coach Bob Hartley is dominating Willie Desjardins in the press room.
Poorer by $50,000 after being fined by the National Hockey League for sending out his toughest players at the end of Game 2 to initiate a brawl when the score was 4-1 for the Canucks, Hartley had reporters laughing again after the skates here this morning.
He joked about needing to win the lottery and nobody making friends between games, then described the one-sided (so far) matchup of first lines centred by Flame Sean Monahan and Canuck Henrik Sedin like this: “Sean Monahan was six years old when the Sedins got in the league.