If the Sens keep it up, they'll be finished in four games. Emery made a lot of good saves but got away with giving up some seriously savage rebounds.

Brad May had an awesome first two periods. May was doing what he does best, and thats antagonizing the opponent, roughing them up, and generally terrorizing the Senators. Brad May should have gotten a star.

Did Brian Murray tell the boys not to hit? I've always hated his policy of no fighting when up by two or more, but the Sens looked like a pack of high-school field hockey players out there today. They were good on the dump-ins, but absolutely refused to finish their checks. Do the Sens think they're so much faster than the Ducks that they don't need to bruise 'em a bit?

At the same time, Anaheim was finishing their checks at every opportunity. Because of this, the Senators seemed dead tired after the first seven or eight minutes of each period, and thus played on their heels.

I also liked the story about Selanne flying his drunken buddies in for the series. Did anybody else notice that the hooligans somehow ended up sitting next to former Edmonton Oiler Ryan Smyth in the stands? Funny.

And finally, has there even been a fight in the playoffs this year? Nobody seems to want to drop the gloves, no matter what the situation. Tonight there was at least a couple of times that the gloves should have been dropped, but yet nothing! Is there some secret NHL ban on playoff fighting now?

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