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PHT Morning Skate: Where Montreal celebrates hat tricks a little differently

Lars Eller

Montreal Canadiens’ Lars Eller tosses pucks into the crowd as he is presented as the first star of the game against the Winnipeg Jets during an NHL hockey game, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, in Montreal. Eller scored four goals to help his team beat the Jets 7-3. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)

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PHT’s Morning Skate takes a look around the world of hockey to see what’s happening and what we’ll be talking about around the NHL world and beyond.

When Lars Eller netted his hat trick goal (his third of four goals last night) there weren’t just hats hitting the ice at Bell Centre. There was a sex toy as well. (@geeyee17 on Twitter)

Patrick Kane makes his first trip back to Philadelphia since scoring the Stanley Cup-winning goal of the 2010 finals. Chicago hopes it’s a visit that will get his game going. (Chicago Tribune)

Time to fire up the Patrice Bergeron of Selke campaign in Boston. With performances like he had last night, it should be an easy one to rally support for. (Boston Herald)

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins’ bum shoulder is bad enough so the Oilers sent him back to Edmonton while on their current road trip. (Edmonton Journal)

The Kings need as much help scoring as possible, so they asked legendary former King Bernie Nicholls to come talk to the team. (L.A. Times)

The Blues are hoping that the calendar change to 2012 will snap them out of their mini-funk. (Post-Dispatch)

As if times weren’t tough enough for the Sabres, now things are getting quiet at their home arena First Niagara Center. Guys, you have to win more often to get the fans to be loud. (Buffalo News)

Ladislav Smid has done yeoman’s work playing defense in Edmonton this year. (Edmonton Journal)