Evander Kane My New Favorite Player

Karma is a beautiful force of nature that keeps people like Matt Cooke in check. Roughly a month ago Matt Cooke knocked out Marc Savard on a blatant cheap shot.  This got the big wigs in the NHL talking about imposing new rules on hitting, but of course this amounted to nothing.  In fact, Cooke barely recieved a slap on the wrist for ending Savard’s season early.  This wasn’t the first time he did something like this…anyways I differ from the point of this post.

I’ve been watching hockey my whole life and NEVER, I mean NEVER have seen someone get laid out as quick as Cooke did by Evander Kane.  I mean they are jawing each other for a while, gloved come off, little scuffle, then BAM freight train to Cooke’s dome and he’s looking for a license plate number to take down. Life is great.  Thanks to HockeyFights.com for the video (an awesome blog if you don’t know already).

In other news: the playoffs are all set.  Here are the matchups:

EAST:

Washington (1) v. Montreal (8)

New Jersey (2) v. Philadelphia (7)

Buffalo (3) v. Boston (6)

Pittsburgh (4) v. Ottawa (5)

WEST:

San Jose (1) v. Colorado (8)

Chicago (2) v. Nashville (7)

Vancouver (3) v. Los Angeles (6)

Phoenix (4) v. Detroit (5)