The Penguins will take the ice on Wednesday to cap off a five-game homestand against the Montreal Canadiens.

The team practiced over at Mellon Arena on Monday and showed no ill-effects from a 4-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Saturday.

If you haven't seen the pictures of what took place at practice, Check Them Out Here.

I find it really funny and ironic that tough guy Eric Godard donned the blue care bear head. I don't know for sure, but part of me wonders if he lost a bet with some of the guys on the team.

I'd also be interested to know how well Marc-Andre Fleury was seeing the puck through that Kermit head over his helmet. If it was working for him in practice, maybe he could implement it into games to throw off the other team.

Goalies are always trying to get an edge in net and new rule changes have even been put in place to reduce the size of equipment. Remember how big Anaheim goalie John-Sebastien Giguere looked during his Conn Smythe performance? It was all legal back then, not anymore.

I'll even admit when I played net for a couple years, due to a goaltender shortage at my high school, that the glove I had wasn't technically legal. The fact that I barely had to move my left arm to catch pucks should have been a clue, but I bought it off the shelf on a trip to Canada so that made it legal to me.

One kid in New Hampshire tested out a theory similar to the one Fleury bought into when he switched from the trademark gold pads and gloves to the white ones he's wearing now.

According to Boston.com, Trevor Leahy designed his pads and gloves to look like the net as a sort of camouflage. In theory, it's a great idea, but I'm not sure how effective it would be. Having played the game as a forward for most of my playing years, I can't remember ever being thrown off by a piece of equipment while shooting. I suppose if I was firing through traffic that the pads would look like a good place to shoot, but I don't know.

I do think that a goalie wearing a Kermit mask over his helmet, even just for fun in practice, would get my attention and render my shot useless.

It's nice to see that the Pens are still having fun on the ice and doing things to share a few laughs. That will only help the tight-knit group become closer and ultimately more effective.

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