We expected that Flames pain-in-the-you-know-what forward Matthew Tkachuk would try to hit everything and probably do some offensive damage, too. Here’s something that nobody saw coming — the Saddledome fans serenading their starting masked man with chants of ‘Smitty, Smitty, Smitty!’Not just once either. It’s against a good hockey team, and it’s in front of your home fans. Word is, some Red Mile revellers were shouting ‘Smitty, Smitty!’ long after the final buzzer. “It was so needed — and I’m not speaking for him, I’m speaking for our team,” Tkachuk said of the fan support for Smith.

Source: National Post April 12, 2019 05:08 UTC