Just a few things that caught my eye:

• I've shown you mine now show me yours. You used to hear that on the school yard; now you hear it on the ice. I just wasn't expecting duelling hat tricks. Un-freaking believable.

• The more I watch Evgeni Malkin, the less I like him. His dumb-arse penalty at 12:49 of the third swung the momentum in the Caps' favor. There's also the matter of Mr. Art Ross going goal-less in his last five games. The box scores sure lie -- those 11 points in eight playoff games are the hollowest points I've seen in a long time.

• Chris Kunitz is about the only Penguins' player outside the Kid who showed up to play. Unfortunately, that included an ugly cross check to the throat of Simeon Varlamov while the young netminder was on his knees. Use your stick for what it was intended, Mr. No Goals and Four Helpers in Eight Games.

• The more I watch Simeon Varlamov, the more I like him. Can he pull a Cam Ward-ish Conn Smythe performance? I do have to say that Jose Theodore looks great in a ball cap, doesn't he?

• Next, from the land of Ripley's Believe It or Not comes the potential return of bruising, cruising Ray Emery. And to Philly, no less. Looks like all the rocket scientists have sprinted to the other end of Pennsylvania.

• Mike Green reminds me of that old Timex slogan -- takes a licking but keeps on ticking. Man, did Sidney Crosby ever flatten him in the first minute of the game.

• I've often wondered...  how many people leave an arena with really, really bad hair after a hat trick? Not only that but those hats are bloody expensive. What happens to them, any way? And what happens if someone has head lice. I don't even want to think about it...