Both Dallas and Philadelphia have one goal right now - win Game 3 at all costs. A victory will put each team back into the series and give them the momentum they desperately need right now. Winning does wonders, so expect both teams to display the mental toughness needed to win a game that basically controls how their respective series plays out.
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Maybe it's time for Philadelphia Flyers' enforcer Riley Cote to tell a whole lot of people to mind their own business. Or, in other words, go to Hells.
As the Flyers catch the imagination of the City of Brotherly Love with their unexpected lengthy stay in these Stanley Cup playoffs, far too much is being made about Cote and his relationship with his cousin, a member of the Hells Angels.
Fist-pumping fans of the Montreal Canadiens were probably guffawing and back-slapping one another after a pair of nimrods took their collective life in their hands videotaping themselves draping a Habs' jersey over the sacred statue of Rocky Balboa in Philadelphia.
Tee hee. They may want to make it last. It could be the only laugh Montreal supporters get for the next few months.
It may not be the Hatfields and McCoys - at least not yet - but let's just say there is no love lost in this edgy little playoff tussle between the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers.
And if you were looking for someone to throw down the gauntlet to turn up the heat a few more degrees, consider it done.
It was the shot that caused the collective wince of a million men.
Shortly after 9:00 Friday evening in a highly-entertaining opener in the Capitals/Flyers series, Philly forward Patrick Thoresen took a Mike Green slapshot off the, um, well, off the one spot on your body where you don't want to take a slapshot. From Green or a six-year-old in his first year of tyke.
