My Notes on a Wild Wednesday night

First of all, this is going to be a very disjointed, unprofessional blog. The night started with the Chicago- St. Louis game. Chicago won in overtime by virtue of a completely illegal goal. Firstly, hossa clearly kicked the puck, he lined up his skate blade, pulled his foot back, and kicked the rubber like a soccer ball. The puck then hits the post and slides across the line, never completely crossing it. The war room in Toronto deemed it a good goal. Had it not gone in STL could've easily won. Check out the game highlights, decide for yourself. Me, I decided, and I flamed TSN's Bob McKenzie because he seemed to defend the goal. I sent him about 10 tweets with the expectation that he'd never reply. Well he did, and he wasn't amused with my rage. Perhaps I overreacted, but this is serious business. Hossa kicked the puck like a soccer ball and it never went in. If you can't conclude that the puck crossed the line, you call no-goal, not the other way around. And the decision should've been made quickly after hossa's clear, most blatant example of a distinct kicking motion. Points hung in the balance for team's like Dallas and Anaheim. Had events played out correctly, Anaheim would've separated themselves from Chicago, and Dallas wouldn't feel as much pressure to do or die. Ok my rant here is over. Now for a string of random notes. First of all, this was perfect revenge for the game Saturday, a perfect effort given by the team, and perfect turnaround by Carlyle. Pretend it's April 2010, right now. Most of us are researching the draft and praying we pick Etem with the 12th pick. What would YOU do if I told you we would draft Cam Fowler with the 12th pick? Well last night he pulled a goal and an assist to give him 10 goals and 40 points. That's out of his draft year. C4 has outproduced Drew Doughty, Erik Johnson, and Victor Hedman's (all dmen who started the NHL at the age of 18). Those are terrific numbers for any defenseman, and the scary/great thing is: he's only going to get better. Ryan Whitney...if you can, make a mental tribute video to his "amazing" play in Anaheim. Now look at Visnovsky, top dman in the league, and Norris contender. We got THAT for Ryan Whitney. 3 more points for 70 on the year. I don't know how the NHL can justify giving the Norris to Lidstrom over Lubo. Ever play Black Ops zombies? You know the one zombie with no legs, that you let crawl around while you rack up points for the next round? Calgary was the West's handicapped zombie. Anaheim put in the kill shot. It is now impossible for them to make the playoffs. Ducks need one more win to clinch, or two OTLs, a Dallas loss, or two Chicago losses. 2 points is all we need. Captain Getzlaf continues to stay hot...he's been racking up points almost as well as CP. He's on pace for 94 points (well that's what he'd have if he played all 82). Can't believe all the posts I saw from Ducks fans demanding Getzlaf to be traded. I believe he's back to being a dynamic force on the ice. Teemu. Everything that needs to be said about this season for #8 has been said. But he needs one more goal to have 30 on the season, giving us 2 30 goal players. MVPerry. This game was a statement for CP's run at the Hart. He's getting serious recognition from big time names. Not to mention HFboards (check my timeline for a link to a CP thread. 90% of the posters give it to Perry, 50% give it to him despite their boldly stated disdain for him).  I want to start by apologizing to Perry. I never viewed him as special. I appreciated what he did, but for whatever reason I found it hard to love him as a player. Something was missing. He showed me he had that something all along. The way he stepped up and carried this team, and inspired the lineup...he never quit on the season. I'll love him for it forever.  I won't make my case for why Perry should win the Hart, other than a quick summary. He deserves to win because he produces almost as well as D. Sedin, but he didn't have supporters like H. Sedin behind him the whole time. CP did more, and meant more to his team than Danny end of story. He needs 4 points (assuming Danny goes cold) to win the Art Ross. At that point if he still doesn't win I'll be shocked. (that sounded like I did make my case, but I coulda written a novel on the topic) Lastly, the manner in which the Hatty was scored was very epic. He needed 3 to be the first player to hit 50. He did it against our potential 1st round matchup, in a must win, revenge game. Each goal scored brought down louder chants of MVP, which was bone chilling in and of itself. And who else to assist on his 50th goal? Teemu Selanne, the last Duck to get 50, and the first winner of the Maurice Rocket Richard (known for his 50 goal seasons) trophy. Perry kept the 50 goal trend every year since the lockout, going (brainfart, grammar fail). There's no better way to celebrate 50 then a downpour of hats. Looking forward, the Ducks play an injured and ailing L.A kings team in a home in home double header series. They need 2 points out of 4 to erase last year's failure. Thank you for reading. Hope you had more fun than me last night. Cause I was flying.