Damn it, being the family tech guy sucks sometimes. Looks like I didnt miss too much.

St. Louis ended up dominating the stats at the end. LA had a total of five shots in the second and third. That first period was fatal though, and the Kings went out of their way not to repeat their epic bungling of a lead from the San Jose encounters.

LA needs to find teeth on its powerplay or St. Louis players might believe they can play dirty without impunity.

After today's results, it looks like the Kings are now favoured by odds-makers over the Rangers to win the cup. Didn't see that coming. Even better: my Flyers are actually the favourites now. Crazy.

via Oddschecker.com

Rankings (in case you don't want to go to a betting site for some reason):

Flyers
Kings
Rangers
Coyotes
Predators
Capitals
Devils
Blues

One more of the daughter Gretzky:

Pierre LeBrun tweeted just now:

Hitchcock says Halak is out for the series.

desertgeek: Pierre LeBrun tweeted just now:

Hitchcock says Halak is out for the series.
nnnnnnnnnnnNNNNNNOOOOOO!!!!!

desertgeek: Pierre LeBrun tweeted just now:

Hitchcock says Halak is out for the series.

didnt know he was in

ice hockey. fark yeah.

i like pretty mush too

Practical_Draconian: St. Louis ended up dominating the stats at the end. LA had a total of five shots in the second and third.

Is there a cup at the end of the season for teams with most shots on goal?

ontariolightning: what I imagine OV will say post game

Ovechkin " I scored goal for me. I have tough time before but I came through for me"
Reporter "and your team"

Ovechkin "What"

lolll

aaannnddd...what he actually said:

"It's most important thing right now guys just win the series and win the game," Ovechkin said. "If you gonna talk about my game time and all that kind of stuff, it's not a season - it's the playoffs. How I said before, you have to suck it up and play for team."

SurelyShirley: Practical_Draconian: St. Louis ended up dominating the stats at the end. LA had a total of five shots in the second and third.

Is there a cup at the end of the season for teams with most shots on goal?

I believe it's called the Seriously, fark Brodeur Medal.

Attention Preds fans, you'll be missing some big players on Wednesday:

Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn will not play Game Three of the team's Western Conference Semifinals series vs. the Phoenix Coyotes as result of violating team rules.

"The Nashville Predators have a few simple rules centered around doing the right things," Poile said. "We have always operated with a team-first mentality and philosophy. Violating team rules is not fair to our team and their teammates."

A followup to my last post:

John Shannon @JSportsnet
Radulov and AKostitsyn were spotted in Scottsdale at 4am on the eve of Game 2. Suspended for Game 3 by club.

That explains Radulov's performance Sunday.