I didn’t even see that Niedermayer elbow until just now, but it doesn’t really surprise me. But this goes back to what I keep harping on about the powerplay. He’s so ridiculously easy to throw off his game the moment things don’t go his way–I remember last playoffs while the Ducks were in the midst of getting bounced by Dallas, late in a game he gets stripped of the puck and turns right around and takes a moronic cross checking penalty, in a clutch situation. This is what great leaders do, I guess? Well, this time Niedermayer does something stupid after game, but he’s done a lot of stupid stuff during games, and he will again in Game Seven (since I have to assume the league will show real *guts* this time (haha, trying to control my laughter here) and at most fine him all of a thousand buckeridoos for the incident, and maybe make him read a pamphlet called “Head Shots ‘R Bad, Mmkay?”), but the Wings have to make him, and Anaheim in general, pay for these stupid mistakes. Just that simple.

And frankly, I really don’t want ol’ Scotty Elbows sitting for game seven anyhow. I don’t want the Ducks to have that excuse when the Wings take the Cinderella Ducks to the ball and then as the clock strikes midnight watch them revert back to the poor ugly stepsister of the NHL that they really are. I want ol Scotty to have to lead his line of losers to shake a real captain’s hand, and to know it takes more than some ludicrous officiating, post-game goonery, wretched ice, mis-timed octopi tosses and whatever else to stop the better team from winning the series. I want the Wings to level their own justice, by finally finding that “11″ setting on their 10-level amp that we all know they have, and put the Ducks to bed in such a way as to leave no doubt whatsoever who the better team really is.

I’m excited.