Maurizio Terrigno, the owner of an upscale Calgary restaurant who told a few news outlets that members of the Edmonton Oilers refused to pay their full bill of nearly $18,000 on New Year’s Eve, now says he’s reached an agreement with the team, according to the Edmonton Sun.

“I have come to an agreement with the Edmonton Oilers,” he told the Sun. “I am very ecstatic with the agreement.”

Allan Watt, a spokesman for the team, didn’t confirm or deny any agreement, but clearly wanted to move on from the entire ordeal.

“The Edmonton Oilers has nothing more to say about this issue,” he told the Sun just before the team’s game in San Jose, Calif., against the Sharks. “I have nothing more to say on this issue … we consider the incident done with we have nothing more to add.”

The Flames-Oilers rivalry is reaching a whole new level.

A Calgary restaurant owner is calling unsportsmanlike conduct on some Edmonton Oilers players he says skipped out on part of a huge New Year’s Eve bill, following the team’s 2-1 loss to the hometown Flames.

TSN.ca reports that Osteria De Medici owner Maurizio Terrigno says the players partied in a group that included 45 people, and the drinks were flowing to the tune of $8,200, and the total bill came to nearly $17,000.

The restaurant owner says the players demanded a discount when they got the bill, and eventually left $12,000 before leaving.

He’s decided to donate the the money he did get to an earthquake relief fund for people in L’Aquila, Italy.

Oilers spokesman Allan Watt told TSN.ca the restaurant was recommended by some Calgary friends of the players and they had a prearranged meal and menu.

“They received the bill which they felt was outrageous,” said Watt.

“They inquired about it and they were unhappy about it and were unhappy with some of the charges. The restaurant adjusted it by $7,000.”

Watt said the players paid the adjusted bill and added a $1,900 tip and left the restaurant.

It is freakin’ cold in Canada.

“Edmonton International Airport was the coldest place in Canada,” Peter Spyker, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told the CBC on Sunday. “It was -46.1 [Celsius] without the wind chill. I believe at one point it got to -58 with the wind chill.”

Our handy Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion tells us that was 51-below-zero without the wind chill, and 72.4-below-zero with the wind chill.

Nonetheless, the Canadian spirit isn’t broken. Here’s a passage from the CBC report, which can be seen in its entirety here:

On Saturday, Calgary police duty Insp. Rob Williams was travelling on the northbound Macleod Trail near the 22X overpass when he spotted what appeared to be a large, multi-vehicle collision.

In fact, several cars had screeched to a halt when a tiny kitten, searching for a place to get out of the cold, had wandered onto the busy road, which has a 80 km/h speed limit.

The scared kitten climbed up into the engine compartment of one of the stopped cars, Williams said in a news release, and several drivers tried to retrieve the kitten with no luck.

Working together after nearly 30 minutes in 25 C conditions, one man jacked up the front of the small car while another crawled underneath.

Williams pushed the kitten down through a tiny opening to the undercarriage where it was safely retrieved.

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Elisha Cuthbert is going home.

The Calgary native is heading back to her hometown to serve as Grand Marshall of the Grey Cup Parade, which precedes the Canadian Football League’s championship game on Nov. 28, the CBC reports. Fans of Doug Flutie will recall the CFL and its slightly larger field and somewhat different rules.

Cuthbert became the next it girl for a few years after her 2001 debut on “24″ as Kim Bauer, the daughter of fellow Canadian Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer. She had parts in “Old School” and “Love Actually” before starring in “The Girl Next Door,” which got mixed reviews. In the last couple of years, Cuthbert has starred in some lesser-known films and returned as Kim Bauer in the seventh season of “24.”