The Haps....

First, the hockey story from last night.

-EDMONTON (CP) - Ryan Smyth grew up idolizing Wayne Gretzky and now he's broken one of his records.

The veteran winger scored a natural hat trick in a span of 2:01 early in the third period to cue an Edmonton Oilers comeback in a 6-4 win over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.

The hurried hat trick broke Gretzky's Oiler record for fastest three goals of 2:18 and also pushed Smyth over the 500 point mark in his NHL career.

''I just got on a good roll,'' Smyth said. ''Two of them were on the power play. I was just trying to help the team and contribute, not thinking about anything else. It turned out to be a pretty good one.''

-OTTAWA (CP) - The Calgary Flames continued their offensive struggles Thursday night, but with Miikka Kiprusoff playing the way he did, they didn't need much anyway.

Jarome Iginla's lone marker of the game, just past the midway point of the third period, stood up as the winner and the Flames held on to record a much-needed 1-0 victory over the Ottawa Senators before a crowd of 18,404 at Scotiabank Place.

Kiprusoff stopped 33 shots, including 17 in the final period, to record his first shutout of the season and the 18th of his career in a battle of two teams that have stumbled out of the gate and came into the game starved for offence.

''The win feels good. We know how good the Senators are we knew they were in a similar situation in wanting to get things started,'' said Iginla, who struck with 8½ minutes remaining to lift Calgary (2-2-0-0) to its first victory in Ottawa since Oct. 28, 1999.

-The PWA officially has announced November 4th as the next event entitled "Fright Night." Tex will defend the Mayem title against Juggernaut and I have heard several different rumor stipulations....

Whichever it turns out to be, Tex will bring hell to his front door and I will not end up on my back with a lump on my head...

Oh yeah, something about a cage match too..

-And just one more day to go untill the Calgary Flames destroy the Toronto Maple Laughs like the little whiny bitches they are MUA HA HA!!