After one night of NHL playoff action, we had the debut of the next superstar, a defensive struggle out west, and 2 multiple overtime games.
The only down side? There's only 2 months of this to go.
Vancouver and Dallas played a 5 hour marathon, going to the end of the 4th overtime before Henrik Sedin won the game for the Canucks. In the east, the game ended at an ungodly 3:32 a.m., a time usually reserved for anything except live North American sporting events. But this is how the game goes sometimes in the second season, and it shouldn't be any other way.
For those who love the shootout (for the record, I'm one of them), there may be thoughts that the rule should extend to the playoffs. It would be exciting, and the games would end sooner, but ask the fans in Nashville (who stood up throughout the extra time last night), and I think they'd say the rules as they are should stay that way.
4 more games tonight, but they're all in the Eastern Time Zone; maybe the games will end by midnight.
And if not, all the better.
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