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Cooke's not playing, I assume?

If both Detroit and Ottawa win tonight, I'll be a happy eddy.

True. In retrospect, I realized that it may have been TSN responsible for the mention and not Campbell. But if it was Campbell, you're right - extremely unprofessional and frankly, cause for worry when it comes to the officiating in the series. Hopefully, it was just the former and TSN simply reporting on hockey.

That's the problem I have too. You don't call out a player by name because now you've put the name in the heads of the refs. You think we'd ever see quotes like this? "Finally, coaches and general managers were also told diving and embellishing will be watched closely. The Ottawa Senators are sure to remind round one officials of this on a game by game basis as Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby has mastered the art of diving and embellishing contact in order to draw a penalty on the opposing team."

I honestly think it's FSD's audio mix or something, because CBC, for instance, always seems to show a louder JLA.

Seconded. Holy s***. I still have goosebumps all over my arms.

I saw that too and fell off my chair laughing.

And of course, there's always the simple classic entitled, "Phoenix drives for the Cup"...

I still want handlebars from Lilja.

Because I'm a dork (what else is new, right?)...

When we're allowed to have six or seven guys on the ice in the SCF for 30+ seconds without a too-many-men call, then I'll believe that the officiating isn't biased, but merely incompetent.

Especially if O'Halloran is calling any of the games.

Damn it, you got that at Walmart, didn't you?

From the comments: Of course not. Why would all those Wings fans be throwing snakes? Oh, they meant the 250 Coyotes fans. My mistake.

Fixed that for you.

Anybody know Cooke's official status for the playoffs? All I see on TSN is "2010/04/11 Head injury, sidelined indefinitely", which is good news for heads and knees of the Eastern Conference.

Beat me to it.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=317718 Ouch. Can't say I'm terribly surprised.

SJS/COL 4-3 CHI/NSH 4-1 VAN/LAK 3-4 PHX/DET 2-4 WAS/MTL 4-0 NJD/PHI 4-3 BUF/BOS 4-0 PIT/OTT 4-3 Western Conference Winner: Detroit Eastern Conference Winner: New Jersey Stanley Cup Finals Winner: Detroit

Exactly. If empty net goals were so easy and so guaranteed, coaches would never pull their goaltenders for the extra man.

I genuinely wasn't expecting us to make the playoffs after all the injuries. Those guys surprised the hell out of me, especially Howard.

We were actually neck and neck there for a while too, two up, two down...but those last few weeks just KILLED me. So, I humbly submit to my better.

Gotta find it funny how Pittsburgh nearly blew the final game of the season against the "worst team in the league". Five goals against the Isles? At least they have Brent Johnson to blame and not a porous defense, right?

Flyers win. Get ready for Pronger physics in the playoffs.

Giroux scores. Philly up by 1.