Say it with me now: it's only preseason, it's only preseason.

Another thing with living in the middle of Leafs nation [and Leafs fans for housemates]: You won't hear the end of it no matter how insignificant the game.

It could just be me rationalizing, but it is only a preseason game and both rosters were full of minor leaguers anyways.

Because I'm a poor student, we only have basic cable so I listened to the game on the Team 1200 stream and watched the highlights on SportsCentre. I'm hardly an authority on this but what I gathered from them were:

- Alexei Kaigorodov was basically invisible throughout this game. He showed some bursts of creativity but was more or less a non-factor. I think the hype surrounding this kid has been a little ridiculous, as Erin Nicks pointed out in her Ottawa Sun column. That's the problem with hype, it hurts all that much more when you can't live up to it. You can't blame the fans for expecting big things out of this guy though, there was a hole to fill in that number 2 centre position and the fact that he was able to make it to the NHL without having to hide in a Finnish safehouse just made it seem like it was meant to be.

- The difference in this game was Mikael Tellqvist, whom I readily admit that I dislike both for his mullet-like hairstyle and my love for J-S Aubin, the other Leafs back-up. He robbed Fisher of a beauty of a chance and made 33 saves.

- On the other end, Martin Gerber was excellent and played shut-out hockey until Jeff Glass took over. I had no idea who Jeff Glass was but a quick Google search tells me that he played for the Charlotte Checkers in the ECHL last year with a 3.22 GAA and .907 SV%. Those are pretty comparable to Kelly Guard's numbers and he played stellar last night taking over for Ray Emery.

- Injuries: Alfredsson left with a "groin tweak" [heh] and Pavel Kubina left with a mild hip-flexor.

- Speaking of immaturity, one the commentators on the Team 1200 kept on laughing at the name "Corey Pecker", a prospect for the Sens. In his own words "I'm not a very mature 45-year-old."