Paying My Respects To Hockey.

Rangers 2, Sabres 1 (2OT) - I love hockey OT in the playoffs. Love it. Rarely anything better, and this double OT battle didn't disappoint, with solid play all around, and Michal Rozsival scores the game-winner late in the second overtime period. Frankly, the Rangers should have had two goals earlier in the game, as what was called a kick really wasn't. However, I believe Buffalo or one of the Canadian teams needs to win the Cup badly.

Ducks 3, Canucks 2 - dependent upon some seriously good goal play by J.S. Giguere in the end, as the Canucks threw everything they had into that 6-on-5 at the end. Corey Perry slapped in the winning goal for the Ducks with less than 10 minutes in the period.

Both series are 2-1, Ducks and Sabres ahead.

Senators and Sabres throwdown.

This good old fashioned mess of a brawl happened because the Sens' Chris Neil nailed Buffalo's Chris Drury hard (knocking him out of the game), Andrew Peters then went after Dany Heatley, and it was ON. Know how on it was? Not even 30 seconds in and we get the treasured Goalie Fight.



(Off Wing Opinion has all the skinny.)