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#TOMSTRONG
Stephen Gillard, Stephen MacAulay and the Saint Mary's Huskies will be playing an important game tonight in support of their assistant coach Tom Lee. The Huskies will take on the No. 4 nationally ranked Acadia Axemen at the Forum this evening. Puck will drop at 7pm. TomStrong has become a big thing around the city and it is to help raise money for the Luekemia and Lyphoma Society of Canada. I think this is a very good thing for the school to do. Go out and cheer on the former Mooseheads and support Tom as he battles cancer. I'll be tweeting some during the game.

MACKINNON
Nathan MacKinnon scored the only goal in last night's Colorado Avalanche's 3-1 loss the Philadelphia Flyers. The goal was his 21st of the season. It also extended his point streak to 7 games. Nathan is just ripping it up in the NHL as a rookie this year. We shouldn't really be surprised though. He now has 43 points in 57 games played and is still first among rookies, 7 points ahead of the next rookie.

SOLDOUT
Saturday night hockey and soldout are four words that should go together. Well it's taken 4 and a half months but they can finally go together when talking about a Halifax Mooseheads game. On Wednesday, the Moose announced that tomorrow night's game against the Rimouski Oceanic is soldout. That means there will be 10,595 roaring fans cheering on the home team as they take on one of our biggest rivals. Follow me on twitter during the game though I may be too excited to live tweet.

FUCALE
We may not be top of the league this season but that doesn't mean that our popularity has dimmed down. In a new 'award' that the QMJHL started this year at the end of November, a Halifax Mooseheads player has been named the Social Media Star of the month each time. The award is given to a player who has the most mentions on the two social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook. For twitter it's favourites, retweets or direct mentions for a player while on Facebook it's comments or likes about a player. For the month of January it has been given to Zach Fucale, your team goalie. According to the article, Zach had a total of 750 mentions on Twitter and 2000 comments and likes on Facebook. He was followed by two other Mooseheads; Jonathan Drouin (who won in November) and Nikolaj Ehlers.


BLACK & GOLD BUS ATTACK
This has nothing to do with the Mooseheads but I thought it was a nice showing of how well the Charlottetown Islanders are doing now in terms of fan support. One of the biggest Islander fans is HKYHatGuy. He is know for his cowboy hat with a Canadian flag on the front and his crazy cheering. Well he decided to go on another trip across the bridge to Moncton and bring a long some friends this time to cheer on the Islanders away from the Civic Centre. It will be a full bus heading to Moncton this afternoon when another game in the Battle of the Bridge goes tonight at 7pm.

Good job HKYHatGuy and the rest of the Charlottetown fan base. Follow @HKYHatGuy on twitter.