Quick Strikes for Sunday, May 3

Lightning/Canadiens, Detroit revels in stupidity and plands for the future, and plenty of other NHL news form the last few days.

Editors Note: While we try to get you these morning reads daily, circumstances sometimes prevent it. The past few days have been a case of exactly that. Our apologies for the lapse in coverage.

• Game two of the Lightning / Canadiens series will be this evening at Bell Centre in Montréal, but with the tight contest that was game 1, it still seems like an opportune time to look at (bold, biased, tainted, hyperbole, extravagant) predictions from the Montreal side of the fence for the series.