Dominic Sramaty

It is nasty.

All of these series are nasty.

I was talking about it.

That game you did the other night, Tampa and Montreal, that first period was borderline out of control.

That game last night was borderline out of control.

We'll talk about Philly-Pittsburgh.

which was borderline out of control at times.

I was going to say almost fully.

Fully out of control.

It's amazing to me.

We should know by now that you can't play the 82 games in the regular season like you play the 28 in the playoffs.

But sometimes I think the officials forget that.

And, you know, fans want to know that their players care as much about winning and losing at this time of year as they do.

Well, they do.

And they approve it on a night-in, night-out basis than they do.

I'm always surprised how people forget that this switch turns on when the postseason starts.

And they will do things to each other at this time of year that they will not do to each other in the regular season.

It happens every year.

And this series in particular...

is just a nasty, mean series.