from Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News,
Derian Hatcher has arguably been the Flyers’ best defenseman in the playoffs. If not, then Kimmo Timonen has. So far in this series with Montreal, we have seen a sucker punch with intent to injure on Timonen go unpunished, and in last night’s harrowing 3-2 Flyers victory, we watched Hatcher get thrown out of the third period of a playoff game for a boarding penalty that occurred almost simultaneously with Tomas Plekanec’s blatant attempt to injure the Flyers’ R.J. Umberger by taking out his knees away from the puck....
Can’t wait to see what’s in store for tomorrow night.
This series is just three games old, and already there is way too much circumstantial evidence to support the perennial theorem embraced in the lower 48 at this time of year.
Namely, that Canada looks out for its own.
Update 1:53pm ET (from Alanah): With a hat-tip to Orland Kurtenblog for reminding me of this video. (Us Canadians are so sneaky and conniving… watch out!). 
This article is completely ridiculous. He’s whining about a conspiracy even after the flyers won the last two games? And he makes his point with a quote from “canadian born” Chris Therien about an old series opposing the flyers and the leafs? (I guess the fact that Therien is canadian eliminates all suspicion of bias from a guy who’s played almost his entire career with the flyers)
Posted by greg on 04/29 at 08:02 AM