Goaltenders absorb enough punishment from pucks fired in anger during games, so they don’t much appreciate a new welt imparted by a teammate in a morning skate. The Lightning’s Olaf Kolzig and Mike Smith each took hard shots high off their bodies in practice on Saturday at the Pepsi Center and their only consolation was to carp about it with each other.

Jeff Halpern had apparently fallen off Smith’s Christmas card list while Kolzig was muttering about Evgeny Artyukhin.