16,049 Reasons to Say: Thank You

- Thank you Andre Roy for scoring your first goal of the season to tie the game in Atlanta

- Thank you Martin St. Louis for your two assist and your OT winner

- Thank you Tampa Bay for your come-back

- Thank you Hurricanes for recovering from a blown lead vs the worst team in the league

- Thank you Ron Grahame (Kent Denver's former goalie coach) for nailing Mrs. Grahame on new years 1975

- Thank you John Grahame for stopping 33 shots

- Thank you ginger kid Glen Wesley for your Short-Handed winner

- Thank you Doug Maclean for yielding such a shitty team

- Let’s thank Ryan Smyth with a nice contract.

- Thank you hockey Gods for the Ottawa/Buffalo game (side thank you: whoever “invented” NHL Centre Ice.)

- Thank you Lindy Ruff for choosing Drew Stafford fourth in the shoot-out

- Thank you Martin Biron. By getting your ass kicked, you allowed Ryan Miller to stop all four Ottawa shooters in the shoot-out.

- Thank you Ryan Miller for your short-handed save on Heately in OT, and your glove save to win the game in the shoot-out

- Thank you Razor Emery for being able to stand in with one of the leagues toughest fighters. Maybe my favourite moment from this year, and that says a lot.

- Thank you New Jersey for your comeback

- Thank you Martin Brodeur for being the greatest goalie of all time

- Thank you Jamie Langenbrunner for your alley-oop, Shoot-out winner

- Thank you Derek for convincing me to go with the Devils

- Thank you NY Islanders for your comeback

- Thank you Maple Leafs for… being the Leafs

- Thanks for the poke check "D-P"

- Thank you Pittsburgh for winning the only game that I didn’t watch. The only moment of the game that I saw was the Penguins' celebration of Malone’s OT goal.

- Thank you Montreal for coming back from a two goal-deficit, twice!

- Thank you to the post. You stopped a Martin Erat shot on a Shoot-Out attempt that would have won the game for Nashville

- Thank you Tomas Plekanec, it may not have been pretty, but they don’t put that on the score sheet.

- Thank you Saku, another great Habs captain

- Thank you Peter the (not so) great

- Thank you Harry Sinden for trading Thornton

- Thank you Sharks for the second biggest blowout of the night.

- Thank you Wild for not flushing a three goal lead

- Thank you Mikko Koivu for you insurance turned game winning goal

- Thank you Flames for… being the Flames

- Thank you post for stopping the potential insurance goal on a Calgary breakaway on what should have been a Calgary penalty

- Thank you Steven Reinprecht for your GTG

- Thank you Jim Playfair for starting three forwards in OT

- The only time I'll ever say this: Thank you Slats for not drafting Shane Doan

- Thank you Kiprusoff’s five hole

- Thank you Panthers, you’re now amongst BOS and NYI as the best teams to make a trade with

- Thank you Canucks for making me feel like it was in the bag, even with a tie score late in the game

- Thank you Kevin Bieksa, your 10th goal of the season will be engraved in my memory forever

Eight overtime games + four shoot-outs + seven come-backs = Hockey Pool 37 Winner and $16,049

Congratulations to the other five people in Ontario who resisted the urge to bet on either of their precious Leafs or Sens.