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NHL Playoff Hockey Observations -- Wednesday and Thursday

Just a few things that caught my eye:

  • I was wrong about Martin Brodeur; my channel surfing caught most of his good moments and few of his bad. And there were bad -- plenty in fact. He'll have lots of time to consider them over the summer.
  • It was Miller time in OT Wednesday. He made four saves in the first OT that some goalies are lucky to make once a season. Someone should cut a DVD and send it to every goaltending school in North America.
  • What's the over-under on number of too-many-men-on-the-ice penalties? It has to be in the dozens, no? There's good money to be earned on that one. Eager is one thing, guys; stupid is another.
  • I Googled most famous failed experiment. The top one was the Michelson-Morley famous physics failure in 1887. The second? The Ilya Kovalchuk experiment in New Jersey in 2010. Mind you, it's not like the Devils lost much in that deal...
  • The Habs had the Caps on the ropes Wednesday night. They'd jabbed and thrown enough combinations to open up a serious cut above their opponent's eye. But instead of going for the kill, they dropped their hands and took that shorthanded goal right off the chin. It should have been declared a TKO right then and there.
  • Bruce Boudreau had better start taking some blood pressure medication. If not, he risks having his red-faced cranium split right off his body.
  • The Flyers' David is about to meet a whole new Goliath in the second round. I'm pretty sure they've already used up all the rocks in their slingshot.
  • It's little wonder the U.S. TV numbers for hockey are low -- the camera work is horrendous. The puck was only on-screen for half of the first period in Comcast's Hawks-Preds game. I've been spoiled by Canadian hockey coverage.
  • A missing persons report has been put out for Marian Hossa; simply paging him hasn't worked.