**** da Pens and Lanche

LET'S GO BLUES!!!

Normally don't watch hockey but playoff hockey has been pretty fun.

It appears that Duchene has decided he's tired of not winning playoff games.

Playoff hockey is on a whole different level. It's practically a different game.

At the beginning of the day, I still would have bet on the Lightning and Pens... or at least one of them to win their series.

Glad I don't bet on things.

A very Blues-like game in a very Blues-like series.

Blues getting throttled tonight. Wow!

Glad I watched Game of Thrones instead of the Blues tonight.

Flyers hire Alain Vigneault as new head coach.

Cale Makar will play for the Avs tonight. Sam Girard is out.

What a crazy week it must be for Makar. (Gets his team to the NCAA national championship, wins the Hobey Baker award, and starts his first NHL game...in the playoffs against his childhood team.)

I'll be interested to see how Makar performs tonight- he is extremely talented no doubt but this is one hell of a situation to ask him to step into. 2nd unit powerplay responsibilities as well- I hope Makar shines.

My expectations for him are pretty low, and I hope everyone else's are as well. I just hope he doesn't make a huge mistake. Aside from that, anything he can contribute is better than what we'd be getting out of a guy like Ryan Graves.

Just grabbed two last-minute tickets for the game. This'll be fun :)

Sweet!


I just read an article about Makar last night, Jan or Feb issue of The Hockey News.... at that point, it mentioned "could get some NHL time at the end of the season, but that won't happen if UMass makes a run to the Frozen Four"... heh. There were comparisons to Karlsson overall and to McDavid's skating.

No pressure, kid. LMAO