Game. Of. The. Day.

No more champagne toasts for the 1929-30 Boston Bruins. That much celebrated team, for those of you who don't recall because you're still alive, won 14 consecutive games. Until yesterday, that was the third longest winning streak in NHL history.

Now, it is still the third longest winning streak in NHL history. But, the 2009-10 Washington Capitals have pulled up next to them. They did it in impressive fashion too, by spotting the defending Stanley Cup Champs, the Pittsburgh Penguins, a 4-1 lead before coming back in overtime to win, 5-4.

An aside: How much would the Flyers like to have Mike Knuble now? Dude is a dirty goal scoring machine. He's like a lousy golfer in the sand, he just stands there and keeps whacking until the damn thing goes where he wants it to. Of his 21 goals on the year, I can only think of one of them scored from father than three feet out. He's a +22 on the year, sixth best on the Caps, which, for the record, would be tops on the Flyers.

But enough Flyer tweaking. We'll take our tweaking west across Pennsylvania, to Pittsburgh, home of the defending Champs. After an arduous journey through the snow filled blah blah blah, the Penguins arrived in fine form, scoring two right out of the box and looking every bit like the defenders of Lord Stanley's Cup.

I wasn't able to watch the match up on the telly because I was sitting in a parking lot outside the Acme in Limerick, PA waiting for my wife to finish having her hair done. (No, my wife was not having her hair done at the Acme in Limerick, PA. I went shopping during. Anyway.) As many of you may be aware, having your hair done can take the better part of three hours. Since I was nowhere near a TV and sitting by myself in the car, I took a chance that, 200 miles away, I might be able to pick up WTOP out of Washington DC and hear the Caps/Pens game on the radio. You remember the radio, right? Its that thing that talks to you, but doesn't have a picture. Anyway, holy shit, when parked in the far corner of the lot away from all the electrical wires, I could get it! Sure it went in and out a bit, but I could hear the announcer all of the time and understand him most of the time. When I couldn't understand what he was saying, I followed the action by the tone of his voice, even if the words were garbled.

That's how I heard Jordan Staal's second goal to put the Penguins up 4-1 midway through the second period. 4-1. Its also how I heard Eric Fehr's goal to close out the second period, and its how I heard Ovechkin's second and third goals to tie the game up.

If any of you were at the Limerick, PA Acme, I was the guy with the Caps hat waiving his hands and screaming by himself in the parked car over in the corner. And no, if I saw me, I wouldn't have allowed my kids within 100 yards of me either.

Some bullet points:

* After yesterday's game, Alex Ovechkin leads the NHL in Goals (42), Points (86), and Plus/Minus (+41).

* The Caps lead the Southeast Division by 27 points, the Eastern Conference by 14 points, and the entire NHL by 3 points.

* The Caps have scored 37 more goals than the next best team, San Jose, and are still the only team with over 200 goals on the year (234).

* The Caps have the highest point differential (+73), 19 more than second place San Jose.

* If they win their next three games Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the Caps will tie the longest winning streak in NHL history (17) by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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