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I kinda like Marchand, tbh. He knows his role and he plays it well. And he's a top-sixer, which is impressive for a superpest.

Six of Boston's 12 goals have come on the power play.

I hate the playoffs.

Also: amazing how much it helps when your defensemen can bomb it from the point.

He shouldn't even be flirting with it. Just keep your hands to yourself, ride the momentum we've built up for ourselves. But no. The one time we need him to "just be," he decides to go and do something. F*** him.

Franzen is gone this summer. I don't want to see him anymore. Smith can f*** himself. What a stupid derp-ass move.

Unbelievable. Un. F******. Believable.

Smith to the box. Kill me.

Franzen to the box. Moron.

We got away with interference there. Eriksson to the box.

And there's the obligatory post-goal penalty.

Greedy Russian.

DATSYUK

I'd like to see him back for one more go-around. Take a pay cut, play in the bottom six, be a mentor, take some nights off like Selanne did this season. Weiss turned into a skeleton? That actually clears up quite a bit.

Inept in our zone. Boggles my mind.

I'd like to know what Renney actually does.

Got some life now. I like.

Yeah, probably should've phrased that differently. I think he's very set in his ways and he struggles a bit with objectivity. But, on the whole, I think he takes care of business. I'd be much more critical if he hadn't owned up to his mistakes recently and if the kids were still getting the short end of the stick. I think things have turned for the better this season. He had to adjust when the cap was instituted, he had to adjust when we lost Yzerman and Shanahan et al., and he has to adjust now. And I believe he's going to do that, and we'll come out of these lean years with a really, really good team.

Wow. We're just getting worked.

I spend a lot of my hockey time reading up on other teams. What I've found is that every fan base has the exact same grievances. In Ottawa, for example, MacLean gives quality minutes to Neil and lets Phillips wear an A, and half the fans are howling about such and such a prospect that could be scoring 100 goals if Paul MacLean weren't so effing in love with his precious washed-up veterans. Neil is used on the power play, and Random Senators Fan dies inside. We have it really good. Really, really, really, really good. As good as it can possibly be in the salary cap era. We're in a bit of a lull, by our standards, but at least we're not looking at 900 years in the gutter (see: Chicago). ("Model Franchise," my ass.) I think Kenny is largely clueless, and I think Babcock might be a bit overrated. But I'd take them over any other GM-coach duo in the league. Now, on the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to Blashill getting the gig. I love that guy.

In fairness, the Wings are doing a whole lot of nothing to earn any sort of praise. The best thing we can say about that period is we only came out of it down by one goal.

The Mutant Rhino from the Advil Commercial - Godzilla - Chris Stewart There's your first line for next season, Kenneth. Getterdun.

I'm just being annoying now, but this series is why I wasn't opposed to adding Chris Stewart for cheap. Yeah, he's Christ Stewart. But he'd be running Rask.

Our power play seriously makes me want to cry.

I've never liked the Nyquist version of the kid line. Jurco's essential to that whole dynamic.