Just a few things that caught my eye ...
- The Preds' power-play was featured on America's most wanted tonight. O-for-14 in two games? So much for regular-season supremacy.
- Tell me again why Sean Couturier slipped to eighth in last year's draft. Then again, how did Claude Giroux fall to 22nd in 2006?
- Aren't the first and last minutes of the period supposed to be sacred? There had to be some kind of record snapped tonight. Wow.
- Steve Sullivan -- a classic illustration of the dangers of using a forward on the point on the PP. Dan Hamhuis -- classic example of the dangers of placing a pylon on the point for the same purpose. There's no way a team should score two shorties in one playoff game. No way.
- Claude Giroux is an exceptional talent, but an even better leader. I am more than impressed ... in fact, I think I'm gaining a whole new respect for Philly. Yes, I said that out loud.
- Jose Theodore: 12 shots in the first six minutes, 26 in the first period and 38 by game's end. The former Hart winner was the only reason the Panthers were even in that game.
- I've liked Andrei Loktionov for a long time. Too bad he'll never get a real shot with the Kings.
- The Canucks have no answer for Mike Richards. Or Anze Kopitar. Or ... you get the point. The Green Men put on a better show than the Orcas.
- I didn't even want to blink during the Pens-Flyers game for fear I'd miss something. I couldn't stop blinking through the first two periods of the Orcas-Kings match. Except during the Canucks' power plays, that is.
- Remember the last time Todd Bertuzzi tried to settle a score? He lost this one (hey -- at least he followed the rules this time) but he did get the Preds' best player off ice for five minutes.
- Screw your head back on Drew Doughty -- you can't help your team if you become unhinged. Leave that to Ryan Kesler, Alexandre Burrows, Maxim Lapierre and the rest of the whining, diving Canucks.