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From my vacation, good afternoon back in the Twin Cities. It's been an amazing playoff to watch so far.
Rehashing my predictions, I went 5-3 with my first-round predictions, but lost my Cup winner in Washington. I predicted New Jersey to beat Philly, although if you read my Insider before the postseason, I wasn't comfortable with it. I picked L.A. to upset Vancouver. I'd look out for the Canucks now if Roberto Luongo plays the way he did in Game 6 because the Canucks are running on all cylinders. I picked Washington to beat Montreal. So those were my three L's. I did pick Boston to upset Buffalo.
Now, I'll take Pittsburgh and Boston in the East Finals and Detroit and Vancouver in the West Finals.
A few nights ago, I watched Game 7 of the Wings-Coyotes series with former North Star/Capital/Red Wing/Lightning/Panther Dino Ciccarelli, Columbus play-by-play man Jeff Rimer and friends. Dino looks like he can still play and definitely still knows and loves the game.
Last night, I watched the game with Marlins/Panthers announcer Craig Minervini and the voice of Virginia Tech, Bill Roth. At the house were a couple of friends -- ugh, Montreal Canadiens diehards, and that was an experience. Let's just say, lots of passion.
The Alex Ovechkin overturned call was of course a great call and the Maxim Lapierre waved-off goal -- the one in which he kicked and barreled into Varlamov -- was a travesty.
They went crazy when the Habs won, then ran around South Florida overturning cars.
