WEDNESDAY COMMENTARY – A KODAK MOMENT

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YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN AT A PANTHERS GAME!

WE’LL GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.

BUT THE HOCKEY WORLD’S BUZZING TODAY ABOUT LAST NIGHT’S CLASH BETWEEN THE FLORIDA PANTHERS AND VANCOUVER CANUCKS AT FLA LIVE ARENA.

BRUCE BOUDREAU CONTINUES TO BE THE TALK OF THE HOCKEY WORLD SINCE TAKING OVER IN VANCOUVER AND THEY HADN’T LOST IN REGULATION IN NINE GAMES COMING INTO THE SUNSHINE STATE.

BUT THAT DIDN’T LAST LONG.

THE PANTHERS WERE ALL OVER THE CANUCKS EARLY AND OFTEN, JUMPING OUT TO A QUICK, EARLY 2-0 LEAD AND THEY HELD CONTROL THE REST OF THE WAY ON THE WAY TO A 5-2 VICTORY.

GABBY’S FIRST REGULATION LOSS.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE NIGHT TO ME WAS A BREAKAWAY GOAL BY FLORIDA CAPTAIN ALEKSANDER BARKOV IN THE SECOND PERIOD. THE CANUCKS TURNED IT OVER AT THEIR BLUE LINE AND THE PANTHERS CAPTAIN MADE NO MISTAKE, BURYING HIS TEAM-LEADING 15^TH OF THE SEASON.

WHEN BARKOV IS ALONE ON A GOALIE, YOU MIGHT AS WELL START SKATING TO CENTRE ICE.

DURING THE GAME THEY HONOURED PANTHERS INTERIM COACH ANDREW BRUNETTE, WHO’LL COACH ONE ALL STAR TEAM NEXT MONTH IN LAS VEGAS.

THERE WAS A LOT GOING ON.

THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD’S BUZZING TODAY WITH A MOMENT WHICH WAS CAUGHT ON VIDEO WHERE POPULAR RAPPER KODAK BLACK WAS CAUGHT IN AN “AMOROUS MOMENT” IN A LUXURY SUITE DURING THE THIRD PERIOD. (LOOK UP SPITTIN’ CHICLETS TWITTER OR INSTAGRAM TO SEE FOR YOURSELF).

ON KODAK’S INSTAGRAM PAGE – WHICH IS FOLLOWED BY OVER 11-MILLION PEOPLE – YOU’LL SEE A CLOSE-UP VIDEO OF THE INCIDENT AND FRANKLY I THINK HIS PARTNER WAS SIMPLY “TWERKING”.

SIGGGGGGH.

YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THE GAME, OR YOU CAN TALK ABOUT THE KODAK MOMENT.

EITHER WAY, SUNRISE, FLORIDA WAS AGAIN THE PLACE TO BE TUESDAY NIGHT.

THAT’S TODAY’S ROD PEDERSEN COMMENTARY

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