Just a few things that caught my eye:

• Sidney Crosby came to play; Alexander Ovechkin came to pout. I haven't seen that kind of petulance since Team Russia's loss at the World Junior Championships. Embarrassing.

• Remember -- Simeon Varlamov is a a 21-year-old kid. He'll be very, very good... some day. He's too young to have the kind of resilience needed to recover from two goals in an eight-second span.

• Read an interesting article today questioning if Roberto Luongo was the netminding version of Joe Thornton. Now that you mention it...

• Mikhail Grabovski impressed me with his performance at the recent Worlds. Maybe he can be a 70-point fantasy scorer some day.

• Now I know what it feels like to be depressed and disgusted simultaneously; I expected so much more from this so-called showdown. The two-hour finale of Lost followed the same plot line... or maybe the game followed their plot. The next two Game 7s had better be better or I might watch a repeat of Grey's Anatomy or something mindnumbing like that.

• Can the Ducks really win on the backs of a single scoring line? They have so far. And the pressure is squarely on the Red Wings, particularly in their own barn.

• I wouldn't bet against Boston; I really wouldn't. Marc Savard should be fine and Tim Thomas is firing on all floppy cylinders.

• Jose Theodore sucks, just in case you hadn't noticed.