PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS?! DAY 31

What you might have missed...

Red Wings 2 Ducks 1 (Detroit leads West final 1-0): Get over yourself, Hockeytown. If Ryan Getzlaf doesn't kiss the crossbar during an early Anaheim push -- how in the world did the Red Wings get out of the first up 1-0 again? -- and then take the dumb penalty that led to the decisive power-play goal, Anaheim wins. Waiting for the Ducks to make a mistake won't win out in the long run -- just ask the Vancouver Canucks.

Dominik Hasek was also not the sharpest goalie in the great state of Michigan last night. That would have been the Sudbury Wolves' Sebastian Dahm, who stopped 77 shots (pretty much everyone is adding the coda, "that's right, 77 shots") to keep his team in the hunt against the Michigan-based Plymouth Whalers in Game 5 of the OHL final. The Danish Dominator made more than a save per minute and prolonged the inevitable until Plymouth won at 13:34 at overtime. Game 6, one suspects, will be anticlimactic.