The Good

• Kipper, obviously. If he keeps this up we can at least feel good knowing that, if the Flames lose, it won’t be because of shoddy goaltending.

• The third-period 5-on-3 penalty kill was what made me actually believe that Calgary would hold onto the shutout. I mean, the Kings were bombing the puck for 1:53 straight, basically. Textbook penalty killing. Here, in fact, is the exact play by play of that impressive PK: Bourque wins d-zone faceoff, hit by Phaneuf on Brown, Sarich blocked shot, Sarich blocked shot, O’Sullivan giveaway, Pardy blocked shot, O’Sullivan shot wide, Kiprusoff save, Langkow loses d-zone faceoff, Kiprusoff save.

• The Bertuzzi feed for Cammalleri’s equally nice goal. It was sick.

• Phaneuf is starting to hit people again. In fact, he had a pretty good night, all things considered. It seems like he has to hit to be mentally involved in a game, so hopefully last night was a sign of things to come.

• Cory Sarich was a monster in pretty much every situation. More play like that from him would be an absolute delight, yessir.

• A road win is always welcome, no matter how ugly.

The Bad

• Pretty much everything else that wasn’t listed above. And I know it was a 2-0 win, but that game was still very bad. And that’s bad meaning “bad,” not bad meaning “good.”

• Todd Bertuzzi’s play has been just atrocious despite his little run of points in six of his last nine games here. Commenter “ngthagg” put it best in the comments last night: he’s playing for highlights, which I guess you should expect a little bit out of a guy playing for his last good-sized contract, but it’s been detrimental to the team for the most part. A nice goal every once in a while is certainly welcome, but he doesn’t seem to care enough about doing anything besides making SportsCentre.
  

The Ugly

• *This spot reserved for every one of Jarome Iginla’s last six games*