As if the blow the Red Wings dealt to the Penguins in the Stanley Cup finals wasn't enough, the Red Wings added injury to insult today by signing Marian Hossa to a one year, $7.4 million deal, according to TSN reports. The Penguins acquired Hossa at the trade deadline last year, along with Pascal Dupuis, in an attempt to make a run at the Stanley Cup. To land the pair, the Penguins parted with Colby Armstrong, Erik Christensen, 2007 first round pick Angelo Esposito, and their first round pick in the 2008 draft.

Hossa now joins a Red Wings team that absolutley dominated

Since February 24th I have done a lot of things.  This would include doing my taxes, filing my taxes, and getting my tax return back from the IRS.  I moved to a new house, I set up the new house (well, my wife did a lot of it...I just set up my office and did the heavy lifting), and we got a cat in the new house.  I drafted a ton of fantasy baseball teams, made a ton of trades in those leagues, and then drafted more leagues after 25% of the baseball season passed.

I watched the Penguins acquire Marian Hossa at the trade deadline.  I watched Marc-Andre Fleury come back

It was hard to call the second round of the playoffs a surprise.  I don't want to pat myself on the back too much, but in the AccuScore predictions for the second round I correctly picked all four winners.  Was it that big of an achievement?  If you look at how dominating the final four teams were in the second round, it would be easy to say no.  That, however, is what we call hindsight.  Still, I can't really say I am surprised.

The two "upsets" came at the expense of Montreal and San Jose.  The Canadiens struggled in the first round with