Just a few things that caught my eye:

• Every man dreams of an extra inch. Daniel Cleary will be having nightmares about his after undressing Antti Niemi and failing to score.

• There was nothing watchable about that third period of the Vancouver-Nashville game. Nothing.

• Wouldn't Shea Weber look good wearing a winged wheel? The Preds need a scoring forward and Weber, an RFA this summer, is their best trade chip. The cost would be steep, though... think Chris Pronger to the Flyers kind of steep.

• Isn't Niemi's crease swimming eerily similar to the thrashing of Dominik Hasek?

• Is sure hope the Flyers have some solid extended health coverage. They're going to be paying for a lot of surgeries in the next few weeks. Mike Richards (wrist), Andrej Meszaros (wrist), Kris Versteeg (stomach muscle), Michael Leighton (hip) and Blair Betts (finger) for sure with three more possibles: Chris Pronger (back), Jeff Carter (hip) and Scott Hartnell (hip). It's no wonder they were so limp against the Bruins. Wow.

• Glad you could join us, Valtteri Filppula. It's about time you shed that cloak of invisibility.

• The Wings had better hope Jimmy Howard sheds his yips before Game 7. He just didn't look comfortable in there for most of the night.

• Pavel Datsyuk, who do you think you are -- a pugilist? No wonder you didn't get a Lady Byng nom. The right jab to Torrey Mitchell's jaw was admirable but not smart when you have a bum wrist.

• Joe Thornton -- you're 6-4 and 235, man, so USE IT. Step out from behind the net and shoot the damn puck. Stop trying to pass.