Just a few things that caught my eye:
- Watch for the NHL's director of confetti management to be in Boston tonight. The post-game debacle in Vancouver should have taught them a serious lesson. Hand scraping -- and about 90 minutes of it -- was the only way to get that crap off the ice. What if that goal had been disputed... and overturned?
- Dwayne Roloson won't be on a short leash -- he'll be on a choke chain. Game 6 was ugly. He's beyond done.
- Don't count on those same heroics from David Krejci tonight. He's good but his only other NHL hat trick before Wednesday came in December 2009.
- Which Tim Thomas is going to show up? The one who let in 18 goals in four games or the one who let in one goal in the other two? Both netminding situations scare me right now.
- Love Brad Richards' tweet about the series: "I guess who ever gets a lead in the first period going into the 2nd . . . will lose . . . Hard to pick this series."
- Anger management meet Nathan Horton. Repeat after me: never, EVER engage with the fans (unless you're high-fiving the kids along the tunnel).
- Martin St. Louis -- the youngest soon-to-be 36 year old out there. Dany Heatley -- the oldest 30 year old I think I've ever seen.
- Dollars to donuts nothing changes in San Jose. I think they get some (more) grace because of the Joe Thornton and Ryan Clowe injuries. They need more guys like Dan Boyle -- fiery guys who don't take bull lightly. They need fewer guys like Mr. Heatley. You know, the kind who don't think they need to work.
- I feel bad for Rangers' prospect Steve Stajcer, goalie for the Owen Sound Attack. He wore the goat horns Thursday night after getting the surprise start in the Memorial Cup tie-breaker only to get yanked after allowing six unanswered goals. The Attack lost. Games like that can carve the psyche of the most stable netminders; can young guys ever shake it after falling apart on such a huge stage?