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I have been watching SO MUCH HOCKEY since last Wednesday when the playoffs got off to a GREAT start with a 4OT game out in Vancouver! (Unfortunately, the 4th OT was pre-empted for an infomercial… that was not good…) But it’s great! There are 3 or 4 hockey games per day!!! And it’s GREAT hockey. Everyone just plays much harder. Everyone. (Except the Sabres for that first 15 minutes on Saturday… but hopefully they learned their lesson!)

I’ve been watching the Vancouver series, another great game last night. The Canucks won in OT. The only two Canadian teams this year are Vancouver and Ottawa. As a Sabres fan, and not a fan of goon hockey, I can’t really root for Ottawa, but you have to root for at least ONE team from Canada to reach the second round!!

It will be interesting, if the Sabres advance past round one as they are expected to, the Rangers are also currently leading their series against Atlanta, so they might be the next opponent for the No. 1 seed Sabres. And, likely, the New Jersey Devils might be the other team to make the Eastern Conference Finals, so it’s plausible that the Sabres could play three opponents all from the same area to get to the Stanley Cup finals.

But, I’m getting ahead of myself. 🙂

Sabres play game three tonight, and then game two of the double-header on Versus is Nashville at San Jose!