Just a few things that caught my eye:
- You have to wonder where the Flyers would be if they'd let Sergei Bobrovsky work out the kinks in Game 2 of the first series. They might not have even gotten this far...
- Milan Lucic must have seen all those BOGO signs at the mall. He couldn't buy a goal over his previous 20 games...
- I'm pretty sure there were a lot of children conceived Thursday night. Even the most die-hard hockey fan couldn't watch that Preds-Orcas game.
- What really happened to Tomas Kaberle? In Toronto, he'd been the best defender since the great Borje Salming. In Boston, he has to fight to get a dozen or so minutes of ice. So much for a big new contract...
- Ryan Kesler is to Mark Messier as Alexandre Burrows is to Glenn Anderson. If any of you can remember that era...
- No surprise here -- Alexander Ovechkin accepted an invite to play for Team Russia at the Worlds. No surprise here either -- they didn't want Alexander Semin. Neither do the Caps.
- The Leafs are having a great playoffs. Their first rounder from the Kris Versteeg deal isn't bottom two or four any more. And they're just four wins away from the conditions being lifted on the Boston second rounder for Kaberle.
- Offside -- it was offside. My cat saw it so why didn't the linesman in Detroit?
- I'm trying to cherish every play made by Nicklas Lidstrom -- there may not be that many more. I'm not taking away from him but I can't help but wonder what kind of totals Bobby Orr would have had if he'd played 1494 games instead of 657.
- Too little too late? The Wings should have figured out how to get Antti Niemi to mishandle the puck before tonight.