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The Hockey Has Been Great
by Paul on 05/15/09 at 09:39 PM ET
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from Damien Cox at ESPN,
To anyone who believes this league was better 10 years ago, or 30 years ago, well, go watch one of the games from those days, then compare it to what we saw between the Chicago Blackhawks and Vancouver Canucks, or the between Anaheim and Detroit in what, at least short-term, has replaced the Detroit-Colorado matchup as the best rivalry in the Western Conference….
The 27 second-round games, in general, showcased an excellent brand of the sport, albeit with some controversy and some borderline physicality, such as Walker’s unnecessary fist to Ward’s face and an ugly hit by Anaheim’s Mike Brown early in that series that left Detroit’s Jiri Hudler lying on the ice in a pool of blood.
But in a high-speed sport that sometimes seems akin to watching a science project featuring electrons colliding in a high-speed chamber, you can only get so much artistry in a sport moving that fast. Moreover, the heavy physical toll of the playoffs seems to be mounting, with every team that’s eliminated reporting significant players who were competing with injuries that would have kept them out of regular-season play.
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