Stick to scoring, Evgeni

I nearly spit out a mouthful of pop earlier tonight watching Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin drop his mitts and put Ottawa's Chris Phillips in a bearhug. Let's just say Malkin's more adept at dipsy-doodles than he is putting up his dukes. I'd hate to think, too, what would have happened had the Senators player been Chris Neil.

As for the clean hit that Pittsburgh's Colby Armstrong laid on Ottawa's Patrick Eaves, that's a textbook example of why you always have your head up. Thankfully, Eaves wasn't seriously hurt.