CanadianChris

Wade Redden's mom passed away last night. He's flown back to Saskatchewan and won't be in the Sens lineup this evening.

I'm watching the highlights of the Giants/Rockies game...did they really need to include ALL of Bonds' at-bats? Did a 6-4 game really turn on a routine grounder to short?

Briere wins it for the Sabres!

I say it ends this OT. The goalies can't keep the puck out of the net for 20 more minutes at the pace they're setting.

I can't believe there was no penalty on that. There shouldn't have been one, so it was a great no-call, but that gets called more often than not. This is great action.

Rage Against The Machine.

Sounds like when Jason Giambi had that parasite in his intestine.

Isn't the big rock to the left a large stair structure? I haven't played the game in a LONG time, but that's what I remember it as. You can climb up it easily, but you can't go back the other way without the morphing ball (which is conveniently placed just beyond the big rocks).

The Hurricanes just look done. They look like they weren't ready for the playoffs at all.

I just tuned in and my jaw dropped in shock. 4 goals on 14 shots...not a good start for Gerber at all. He was their biggest question mark going in anyway, and this isn't going to help matters.

Colorado's playing a really solid game right now.

Well, here are the numbers for last year... http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:paIg5t...us&ct=clnk&cd=2 First and second with no outs is a decidedly better position to be in. Yeah, I don't know why you'd waste an out to score FEWER runs. Looking at the variance on those numbers would be interesting. I'd suspect your odds of scoring at least one run would be higher with 2nd and 3rd/1 out, which would make it preferable to 1st and 2nd/0 out in tie games late, but I have no idea why anyone would do it in the third inning. Have some confidence in your hitters, man.

I cannot believe the Flames only scored two goals and needed overtime to beat a team that had its backup goaltender make an emergency start. If they had just about anyone but Kiprusoff in net, they would've gotten destroyed. Can't wait for Rangers/Devils.

I'd love to see some stats on average number of runs scored with first and second/no outs as opposed to second and third/1 out.

Well, the cut fell at even after all.

No J.-S. Giguere in tonight's game against Calgary. That'll probably be a killing blow to any chances the Ducks had tonight.

I said to my wife at the start of the third period, "If Ottawa can just score one goal, they'll probably score 3 or 4." Final score: Ottawa 4, Tampa Bay 1. Awesome. And Emery played an amazing game. No worries with him so far.

Any relation to Dynamite Kid, I wonder?

Figures that Grahame would wait until Game 1 of the playoffs to play his best game of the year. Oh well...still a whole period left. One of them has to go in at some point.

That was the point. Not that Quinn did a great coaching job in the regular season, but that the difference between playing first-place Detroit and fourth-place Dallas wasn't that great, so Detroit getting beat by San Jose didn't help as much as it would appear.

I can't see that happening. It's already moved to -1. The course isn't playing hard enough for enough players to move backward.

Correct, although there were only three points between first and fourth in the West that year. They beat #2 Calgary (in an amazing series), #4 Dallas and #3 Toronto en route to the finals. They were only 1 game above .500 in the regular season, though.

I'm looking forward to that one as well. It's going to be one of TSN's featured series.

I'd be inclined to agree more if that game had been played with Kiprusoff in net. Still probably will be, though.