Somewhere Brett Hull is giggling. In all the years since Hull’s little incident in the Stanley Cup Finals against Buffalo where Hull got a goal even though he was cleary in the crease.

Apparently, refs and instant replay are a bit paranoid (or incompetent, either one) and causing trouble for the goaltenders because Tyler Bozak of the Toronto Maple Leafs gets his goal pulled back off the board for goaltender interference.

It’s a bogus call as Bozak didn’t appear to really be in violation, just the opposite of Hull’s allowed goal, and the goal is disallowed.

I’m not sure what the refs were doing or why the rules don’t apply to review this goal but it appears the refs made a rush judgement and it should have been corrected. Simple plays like this should not be happening in 2012. I mean, this isn’t a World Cup Soccer game here.

Even though this non-goal happened early in the game, the Leafs would go on to lose to the Pens 5-4.

Marc-Andre Fleury goes to the two-pad stack to make a save. It works but doesn’t quite get the job done. Thankfully, Pens defender Kris Letang makes a diving save of his own to highlight a sweet 3rd period comeback by Pittsburgh to beat the Leafs 5-4.

Tyler Bozak of the Toronto Maple Leafs was having some more bad luck Tuesday night. First, Bozak’s goal gets disallowed. Then this happens. On a breakaway attempt Bozak gets stuffed by Marc-Andre and then the pucks sails to the left. Kris Letang is there to save Fleury’s tail with an equally nice save.

This is why players should be mic’d up for big games. During the 2012 NHL All Star Game in Ottawa, Ontario, we were treated to a great shootout by Team Chara and Team Alfredsson. In the end, home favorite Daniel Alfredsson and his hand-picked team lost to Team Zdeno Chara, of the Boston Bruins, 12-9 at Scotiabank Place.

Marian Gaborik’s three goals and one assist topped Alfredsson’s two goals and one assist, which nixed Alfredsson’s chance at MVP as Gaborik took the trophy.

In the first period, Henrik Sedin of Team Alfredsson makes the score 3-2 in favor of Chara and after the score you can hear Sedin’s linemate for the game, Philly’s Scotty Hartnell, drop some trash talk on rival Maple Leafs defender Dion Phaneuf as he skates by the Chara bench. Check out the great line at about 27 seconds into this video.

The L.A. Kings decided to get the most out of their All-Star break time. The team is just not quite famous enough and that’s a bad thing in Hollywood. Thankfully, the Fame Makers are there to help Mike Richards, Anze Kopitar, Matt Greene, & Drew Doughty become the biggest fishes in the pond.

The Fame Makers (Neil Campbell & Mike Hanford) meet up with the stars of the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings (Mike Richards, Anze Kopitar, Matt Greene, & Drew Doughty) to show them the tricks on how to be famous.

Philly’s Scott Hartnell, despite needing a haircut, did his best to impress his dad this weekend. And pop must be proud as the shaggy haired Hartnell pulled out his 6th career hat trick against the Boston Bruins.

In the stands you can see Hartnell’s dad wearing the biggest smile in the world as he watches on as his son lights the lamp. Not a bad day to check out your kid at his work.

The natural hat trick occurred in the second period and the fans littered the ice in the proper tradition which made the officials postpone the remaining 46 seconds of the second period to clean up the hats.

[via Yahoo! Sports] Hartnell got Philadelphia within 3-2 on a power-play goal a few minutes into the period when he blasted a one-timer while down on one knee.

Hartnell then scored a nifty goal to tie it at 3. He caught a pass from Giroux, dropped the puck, turned around and lifted a shot over defenseman Adam McQuaid that fluttered above Thomas’ stick.

Hartnell put the Flyers up 4-3 in the final minute of the period. He lost his stick during the shift, skated over to the bench to grab another one, returned to the circle and ripped another shot past Thomas.

Fans littered the ice with hats to celebrate Hartnell’s sixth career three-goal game and first since Dec. 20, 2008. With only 46.5 seconds left in the second, players went back to their lockers and added the extra time to the final period.

First off, and you’ll noticed this in the video as well, is that the alt jerseys for the New York Islanders are God awful.  I mean nasty.  This franchise can’t do anything right. It looks like a decaying smurf, circa 1995 and I don’t even know what that means it’s so nasty.

But just the opposite of the Fugly Isles jerseys is the perfect OT goal by John Tavares. Despite looking fashionably horrendous, Tavares doesn’t let it stop him from strutting his stuff.

John Tavares, the top pick of the 2009 NHL draft, knocks the puck from mid-air and propels the Isles to an OT win. It’s the Isles third straight win and fourth victory in five games.

NO! Do not shoot the puck!

You’ve seen the Internet memes. You’ve seen Sh*t Nobody Says, Sh*t White Girls Say, Sh*t Asian Girls Say, Sh*t Straight Guys Say to Gay Guys. But have you heard from Los Angeles Kings fans? Exactly. You haven’t. So, please enjoy Sh*t LA Kings Fans Don’t Say.

Mike Smith does an amazing save on a nice deke by Datsyuk in a shootout. The Coyotes and Red Wings battled it out in OT with Detroit getting the win in a shootout but Mike Smith does all he can to keep his team in the game.

The Coyotes have stumbled upon a great goalie in Smith, who isn’t on the best team but he has been able to compile a nice 17-12-7 record and helping the Coyotes stay in the playoff race.

It’s not the first time we’ve talked about a great Mike Smith glove save and it’s surely not the last. Check out Smith as he keeps his wits about him to stop this brilliant Datsyuk deke during the shootout.

Mike Smith stops Marian Gaborik on an overtime penalty shot with an unbelievable lunging save. Smith keeps his stick down as he bends over almost backwards when Gaborik sneaks over to the side of the net. Gaborik went to the forehand and and it looked like he had Smith beat before Smith turned into a slinky and sprawled to his right to get the stick on the puck.

Smith made this beauty at 3:10 of overtime and sadly for Smith it didn’t hold off the red-hot Rangers who would win in a shootout, 2-1.

The Vancouver Canucks scored 4 power-play goals to finish up some business. The Canucks just couldn’t get past the Boston Bruins in last season’s Stanley Cup Finals. With a little hard work, and some fighting, the Canucks finally proved they could beat the Bruins.

Both teams started out slow this season. In fact, it looked like the Stanley Cup hangover hit both teams as it took until just about a month ago for them to wake up and prove themselves to be as good as they were last year.

Last years Stanley Cup Finals summed up in a picture

No riots in Vancouver tonight. Fans no doubt wanted this type of physical win in the Finals but it is nice for a bit of revenge. And it didn’t take long for the angry Canucks to drop the gloves and beat out some frustrations on the Bruins.

Less than four minutes into their first game between the teams since the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 39 years, at least five Canucks surrounded and jostled Boston’s Shawn Thornton near the Vancouver bench after he came to the aid of a teammate who had been hit.

And two minutes later, the Canucks scored the first of their four power-play goals on their way to a 4-3 win Saturday.

“I think it makes a statement to the rest of the league that we’re back and we’re looking forward to getting back to where we were,” Vancouver goalie Corey Schneider said.

The Canucks are second in the NHL with 55 points and the Bruins are third with 53.