Well, that was fun. Another dominating performance by the skaters on top of another stellar outing by Chris Osgood. The team is firing on all cylinders, and though the Jackets had their moments, Detroit is playing horn-to-horn hockey in this series.

If they keep this up, I don’t know what Columbus can do to make up the difference. The Jackets aren’t playing poorly, but they’re clearly outclassed as long as the Wings play at this level, and unless they’ve got an extra few gears hidden away, they’re in deeper than the 2-0 series deficit indicates.

That said, the Wings will have to be even stronger on Tuesday as the Jackets play their first playoff homegame. The Jackets will be adrenaline-pumped in front of their home crowd, and will look to do what Nashville did last year: force a 2-2 series tie through four. The Wings cannot let the foot off the gas just because they’ve pulled out to  two-game lead.

Megan pointed out tonight that they’ll face a tougher task than the Predators did, though, since the Wings have looked far better thus far than they did to this point last post-season.

More tomorrow.