It was at 10:25 of the first period when Sheldon Souray blasted the shot that moved him into a tie for the lead as the top-scoring defenceman in the National Hockey League.Three minutes and 44 seconds later, he lost it back to Shea Weber. But in a city where there used to be several statistical subplots in play at the same time season after season, there's finally one to follow.
NO MISTAKE
And 34 games into the season, you'd have to say Souray has proved that Kevin Lowe didn't make the mistake so many people figured he'd made when he gave the native of Elk Point a five-year, $5.4 million front-loaded contract through the 2011-12 season off the one-year phenomenon of having scored 26 goals with the Montreal Canadiens while at the same time having that eye-sore of a statistic - a minus 28.
As the days count down to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Souray has suddenly put himself into a position, along with Weber, of deserving serious consideration for a spot wearing the red maple leaf.
Last year, healthy for only 26 games and scoring only three goals and producing only 10 points, didn't prove anything.
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