Game-winning goals. Huge saves. Giant hits. Overtime thrillers. Bitter rivalries. The NHL playoffs have offered sports fans just about every form of drama you could want thus far. And things are only going to get better.
So to ramp up for the upcoming action, let's take a look back at each result and some of the top highlights thus far. It's everything you could want short of a full playoff beard.
Playoff Highlights
It's hard to argue that the best playoff game to this point has been the Game 1, double-overtime thriller between the Chicago Blackhawks and Nashville Predators that ended like this:
The story of that game, however, was Blackhawks backup keeper Scott Darling, who entered the game at the start of the second period after Corey Crawford gave up three first-period goals and left his team trailing 3-0. The Blackhawks fought their way back, however, in large part because of Darling's 42 saves.
And none were better than this stop on Ryan Ellis when the Blackhawks were trying to kill off a third-period power play:
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