Just a few things that caught my eye:

• Cristobal Huet channelled both the Amazing Kreskin and Rubberboy with that on-his-belly, mind-over-matter leg save on Marian Hossa in the dying seconds of the third. He saved the game... at least for a few moments.

• Not that long ago, a shot off the backboards was considered a complete duffer. Now, it's good strategy. I have to tell my beer league buddies that -- we'd look mighty fine under those rules.

• Jonathan Ericsson, the next Wings blue-line star, suffered an acute appendicitis after practice Wednesday morning. Honestly, you do not want to know how the cecum gets plugged up, causing that kind of inflammation. I wouldn't recommend doing a search; it'll only scare you. I do like the word fecalith, though, in some sick and twisted way.

• Valtteri Filppula is on a six-game scoring streak. When the Wings figure out they can't re-sign some big guns for next season, it'll be Filppula who'll slot in on one of the top-two lines. He's that good.

• I've said Pavel Datsyuk's foot was broken from the time the puck hit his foot. No, he didn't leave that game. But adrenaline would have gotten him through the initial pain. I'll bet there's a hairline fracture there even though the Wings are all clammed up. They need him badly against the flightless birds. They really do.

• I could hardly believe my eyes when I not only saw Chris Chelios on the ice in OT but that he took off on an end-to-end rush with the puck. He almost banged in the rebound, too. He was moving so fast I could hardly make out the type of fossil imprinted on his butt as he skated by.

• The Hawks played a much smarter game than they did in Game 4. Now help me out here. Scott Walker of the Canes got what, $2,500 in fines because he hurt someone? Hawks coach Joel Quenneville got $10,000 for ripping the refs. Come here, go away. Come here, go away. Argh.

• Don't touch that trophy -- I mean it. Don't do it. Just because Sidney Crosby had the coconuts to break an absurd superstition doesn't mean anyone else should do the same. His are bigger than yours, Henrik Zetterberg.

• Hump day brought out the weird and wacky, don't you think? Patrick Roy turned down the Avalanche (what were they thinking in the first place? That guy is crazy). Some drug dealer rolls on members of the Washington Capitals, saying he sold them steriods. And Judge Redfield Baum has decided owner Jerry Moyes really does have control of the 'Yotes and not the NHL. Next thing you'll know, some team will decide that Pat Quinn and Tom Renney can actually co-exist behind the bench somewhere and hire them simultaneously. Hey, wait a second...