So the Vezina finalists are Jon Quick, Pekka Rinne and Henrik Lundqvist. I'm bummed not to see Mike Smith's name on that list, but all three are highly deserving.

Obviously Lundqvist is the shoe in, but I really hope they seriously consider Quick, he's the only reason the Kings made the playoffs, and even though playoff performance is irrelevant for regular season awards, he did help steal round 1.

I would be ok with either Lundqvist or Quick winning.  There is no way Rinne should win though.  He may not even be the best in his own division.

Don't think we have any Bruins fans around here...

So goodbye Boston :)

I am going to have to pretend like I didn't just read those last 2 sentances. 

Elliott/Halak

Both of whom did poor last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU43fyyX73M
Watch this video. (Mute the music. It's terible)

So I guess I can keep laughing at my Parity thing as Boston and Vancouver are out. Once again, there is guaranteed to be a new Stanley cup champion. Cool for that city, but also shows how the cup is anybodies game. Glory one year falter the next so early is just not right to me. If the Rangers lose tonight it will only further my case.

That said, I am glad Washington won and good riddance to Boston as I have said before that city has had too many championships over the last decade to have my back.

Going for the Rangers and Devils tonight in the hopes for more Atlantic division rivalry series. Sorry Philly fans I just love the rivalries.

I think parity is a good thing, I'm not at all concerned about that, the only thing I'm concerned with is how the teams advancing play defensive systems that largely rely on goaltending. It's not as exciting to watch and likely more teams will try to emulate it going forward.

I keep talking about parity mostly because I feel it makes the winner each year seem like the won more based off of a good timed hot streak more than truly being the best. No matter.

I agree the success of the Blues, Kings, Coyotes, Predators will probably lead a few teams to follow, but I am sure it will be the usual suspects like Minnesota. I think the only teams that might change to that strategy will have to be ones hiring new coaches for next season that are good at building defensive minded clubs. Goals are down once again and last time this happened the NHL's ratings fell big time which was on of the main reasons for the last lockout as they had to figure out a way to create higher scoring games. I fear with the teams success I mentioned above would could be in for a repeat and it is by far a worse thing than parity.

Philadelphia and high scoring clubs for victory!!!