

Exactly 45 years ago, Maple Leaf goaltender Johnny Bower was approached by a CBC producer to make a Christmas record. Although hesitant, he soon recorded Honky the Christmas Goose with the help of his nine year old son Johnny Jr. and some neighbourhood kids. The record sold 40,000 copies during Christmas 1965, the proceeds of which were donated to charity.
The Christmas break in the NHL is a good time look back on the year that was. The following are the top NHL scorers from last years Christmas break to now. (GP-G-A-PTS)
Sidney Crosby 80-58-65-123
Steven Stamkos 80-57-51-108
Henrik Sedin 78-21-87-108
Daniel Sedin 77-39-66-105
Alex Ovechkin 80-38-66-104
Martin St.Louis 80-36-62-98
Niklas Backstrom 82-29-64-93
Brad Richards 80-30-59-89
Alex Semin 79-44-43-87
Eric Staal 76-39-46-85
The 123 points would represent a career season for Crosby, and Ovechkin's 38 goals would be by far his lowest full-season total.
1. Brian Burke has a secret 40% ownership stake in the Boston Bruins.
2. Henrik Sedin and Tanner Glass have a personal bet on who scores more goals this season, loser has to wash Luongo's Trans-Am
3. Marc Savard has removed Colin Campbell from his Christmas card list.
4. Ilya Kovalchuk is being paid 6.6 million a year to acurately impersonate the scoring talents of long gone Lou Lamoriello favourite, Hector Marini.
5. The entire Maple Leafs roster has vowed to not score goals while Jonas Gustavsson is in net, all goals are purely accidental. They apparently don't think too much of Giggy either.
6. Mike Green is so intent on winning a Norris Trophy he has decided to score just like Rod Langway.
7. This past summer, Tim Thomas broke into the Hockey Hall of Fame and stole the goalie pads of George Hainsworth.
8. Dustin Byfuglien doesn't need to be in an opponent's crease to score goals.
9. Gary Bettman plans on moving the Coyotes to Brantford, Ont. where they will be coached by Keith Gretzky.
10. In true HBO fashion, the Pens and Caps will engage in an expletive laden, yet darkly comedic gunfight during the first intermission of the Winter Classic.
At least, after finishing that poorly in 1988 they were able to draft such re-building blocks as Scott Pearson, Tie Domi, Peter Ing and Ted...Crowley and Len...ummm...Esau...good lord, they truly have been a mess for my entire life.