Your depressing deep-fried breakfast links:
- This year’s playoffs have already offered up a cross-section of controversial hits - with consistently inconsistent rulings from George Parros and the DoPS. [Rink]
- Andre Burakovsky left last night’s game early with an upper-body injury and will be reevaluated today. [WaPo]
- He wasn’t the only one getting hurt; even the officials aren’t safe in this series, as linesman Steve Barton suffered an awkward and very painful-looking knee injury. [USA Today]
- Alex Ovechkin knew after Game 1 that he needed to be better in Game 2; he was, with two of the team’s four goals.