Just a few things that caught my eye:
- I smell a goaltending change for Washington. Michal Neuvirth isn't the problem but he's about to be hung on the back of the stall door in the little boy's room.
- Alain Vigneault needs to be shown the door. How can the most potent offense in the regular season (by a country mile) score just 21 goals in its first 10 postseason games? Is he coaching to win a Cup or keep his job?
- Tim Thomas -- 'nuf said. All upper-case WOW just doesn't shout enough admiration.
- How far do you think Nashville can go with Pekka Rinne, Shea Weber, Ryan Suter and a bunch of no-names? New Jersey won the Cup in 1995 with an outstanding netminding, two stud defenders and a boring, team-first approach on offense. I'm just saying...
- Sometimes I wonder how goalies stay sharp when they don't see a lot of rubber. Roberto Luongo didn't see a single shot in about 18 minutes of the second. Eighteen minutes!
- Sean Bergenheim, Dominic Moore, Nate Thompson and Adam Hall. It's guys like these -- and not the studs -- who ultimately make the difference between winning and golfing. Superb.
- Period one was perhaps Alexander Ovechkin's best 20 minutes in the postseason... this season or any other. Niclas Backstrom hasn't had 20 good seconds.
- I love Shea Weber but the beard has to go -- he's more Unabomber than Ted was.
- No goals in 17 games and then two on Tuesday -- that goose egg was getting a little sulphurous for Ryan Kesler.
- The ugly lining if the Bruins make the finals? They lose that conditional second-round draft pick from the Tomas Kaberle deal... they sure aren't going to lose it by re-signing him. Mind you, no one is going to re-sign him now he's been exposed.