Good morning. Anyone target you with cheapshots last night? No? Then you weren’t in the sole NHL playoff game.
- Longtime Islanders broadcast stat man Eric Hornick talks the season that was, and the future. [THW]
- A bit more on Mathew Barzal’s Seattle Thunderbirds clinching their second consecutive conference championship. [My Northwest]
Only one game in the playoffs last night, but so, so, so much going on in that one. Only thing missing amid all the drama was a good, long, blurry offside video review.
Sidney Crosby was injured on a brutal but quite possibly inadvertent crosscheck to the head by former teammate Mats Niskanen right after Alex Ovechkin hit him in the head with a stick.